[Paraview] pvbatch vs. pvpython

Burlen Loring bloring at lbl.gov
Wed Aug 8 17:02:10 EDT 2012


Hi Ganesh,

Sig 9 usually means your job was killed by the system. Is it possible 
that you have exhausted the available ram or hit some artificial limit 
that is imposed by your batch system?

Burlen

On 08/08/2012 01:15 PM, Ganesh Vijayakumar wrote:
> hi!
>
>   I recently installed paraview 3.12 with offscreen mesa on a SGI 
> cluster with intel compilers and SGI MPT. Using the same version of 
> paraview on my local computer I recorded a script in the qt version 
> using python trace. I was able to execute the same script just fine on 
> the cluster on a similar but larger case using pvpython. However I'm 
> unable to use pvbatch. First off the cluster forces me to use mpirun 
> to run pvbatch, saying that all MPI applications must be launched with 
> mpirun. Even when I do this
>
> mpirun -np 1 pvbatch --use-offscreen-rendering saveImage.py
> MPI: MPI_COMM_WORLD rank 0 has terminated without calling MPI_Finalize()
> MPI: aborting job
> MPI: Received signal 9
>
>
> a termination is all I get. Is something wrong the way I'm using 
> pvbatch? I'll be working on datasets that are over 20 million cells. I 
> hope to use multiple processors if that will help me speed up 
> visualization. Please note that I'm not using a server. I just intend 
> to submit the visualization as a job on the same cluster where I run 
> the simulation.
>
> ganesh
>
>
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