[Paraview] Live data source for co-processing in Paraview version 3.14.1

Fri Apr 5 14:21:25 EDT 2013

Hi Hong,

That Catalyst Users Guide is still a couple of weeks away.

To clear up your confusion in the meantime, Catalyst is really a stripped
down version of ParaView built with co-processing. The idea behind Catalyst
is that there's a lot of stuff in ParaView that isn't needed for in situ
analysis, especially depending on what the desired outputs are. So
Catalyst's role is to reduce the size of the libraries that a simulation
code needs to link to. For example, if you're not interested in generating
screenshots you would have a lot of overhead for all of the rendering parts
of ParaView and some GL implementation. Catalyst would allow you to not
include rendering components then. The live feed, Connect to Catalyst, will
work with either Catalyst or a full blown ParaView with co-processing
build. In order to connect your simulation to the ParaView GUI through the
live feed you should only need to run your simulation code linked with
ParaView/Catalyst and a generated Python script which sets things up for
live-viz.

Regards,
Andy

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Hong Yi <hongyi at renci.org> wrote:

>  Hi Andy,****
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> I am wondering whether the Catalyst Users Guide is very close to be out
> and ready to download, perhaps in the next couple of days hopefully?
> Although the user guide would most likely answer my question below, I’d
> like to ask it now since I expect it will have quick answer which would
> clear up my doubts quickly. Specifically, I am not sure the relationship
> between Catalyst and the coprocessing libraries included with Paraview
> build/install. From what I read, the coprocessing library is called
> Catalyst in the new ParaView v3.98. I have downloaded catalyst source tree
> from http://catalyst.paraview.org/catalyst/resources/software.html and
> built it into a separate directory from Paraview as instructed.  However,
> when I built Paraview itself, I can enable coprocessing and all needed
> adaptors which will generate CoProcessing directory that includes adaptors
> and CoProcessors and seems it already includes coprocessing library without
> a separate Catalyst install. I am thinking if I only do in-situ
> visualization without live data source feed into paraview client for live
> monitoring, I might not need a separate catalyst install, is this right? As
> you instructed in this email thread on live data source, I can use Tools->Connect
> to Catalyst GUI menu to connect to live data source which definitely
> requires a sepate Catalyst install. I know I will have to input a port
> number to accept connections from catalyst, so I think I will have to run
> catalyst also separately from the catalyst installed directory such as
> pvserver in the bin directory under catalyst install which would feed live
> data source into the paraview client, right? If so, in this case, I am
> thinking I probably do not need to run another pvserver instance as
> Paraview server from the Paraview install directory that the client
> connects to, but rather to connect to the pvserver instance from Catalyst
> as live data source? I am hoping to frame my question with not too much
> confusion, and hoping to clear up the confusion in my head by some quick
> answer from you.****
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> Again, looking forward to the Catalyst Users Guide to be out soon!****
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> Thanks,****
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> Hong****
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> *From:* Andy Bauer [mailto:andy.bauer at kitware.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 21, 2013 3:25 PM
>
> *To:* Hong Yi
> *Cc:* paraview at paraview.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Paraview] Live data source for co-processing in Paraview
> version 3.14.1****
>
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> I'm working on a Catalyst Users Guide that should cover everything you
> need. It will probably be ready in a couple of weeks. I'll post to the
> paraview list when it's ready and where to download at.
>
> Andy****
>
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Hong Yi <hongyi at renci.org> wrote:****
>
> Hi Andy,****
>
>  ****
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> Many thanks for the useful information. This confirms my suspicion on the
> live data source after I see information on catalyst, so I’ll just go ahead
> to upgrade my development environment to the latest Paraview version 3.98.1
> to be able to leverage catalyst co-processing library for my in-situ work.
> I have read up a lot of information on coprocessing in ParaView so far, so
> I think I’ll just need to get a specific example running next for a good
> understanding of specifics, then I can get to specifics such as developing
> adaptors to interface with the simulation code. At that point, I might have
> more specific questions.****
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>  ****
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> Thanks again,****
>
>  ****
>
> Hong****
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>  ****
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>  ****
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> *From:* Andy Bauer [mailto:andy.bauer at kitware.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 21, 2013 1:59 PM
> *To:* Hong Yi
> *Cc:* paraview at paraview.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Paraview] Live data source for co-processing in Paraview
> version 3.14.1****
>
>  ****
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> Hi Hong,
>
> The live data source that was done with ParaView 3.14 really was just a
> demo. It's evolved and has been improved for ParaView 3.98. Not it's in the
> Tools->Connect to Catalyst GUI menu.
>
> Catalyst is indeed the evolution of what we called the co-processing tools
> in older versions of ParaView.
>
> If you can give an example of what you're trying to do for in-situ work, I
> can probably point you in the proper direction.
>
> Andy****
>
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Hong Yi <hongyi at renci.org> wrote:****
>
> Hello,****
>
>  ****
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> I built Paraview server version 3.14.1 on a HPC cluster with all
> co-processing-related flags turned on including enabling co-processing, all
> adaptors, and plugins, etc., and built Paraview client/server with no MPI
> on a local linux machine with co-processing enabled as well. Then I connect
> the Paraview client running on my local linux machine to the Paraview
> server running on the HPC cluster to visualize a phasta-generated mesh data
> on the HPC cluster. All works except that I don’t find “Live data source”
> from paraview “Source” menu. I have not really tried coprocessing library
> yet, but it is in my next to-do list. In the meanwhile, I’d like to get
> some advice from this list regarding this missing “Live data source” from
> Paraview client GUI in case I missed something or did not do something
> correctly. ****
>
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> On a related question, from http://catalyst.paraview.org/ I don’t see
> specific information on whether the coprocessing library in earlier version
> such as 3.14.1 is an earlier version of this catalyst. It appears to me
> this catalyst library only works for version 3.98 and can be built into
> paraview 3.98 by generating catalyst source tree and building it into
> paraview. For earlier paraview version 3.14.1, I cannot leverage this
> latest catalyst source since it only works with version 3.98, is this
> correct?****
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>  ****
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> Thanks for any information and explanation. I am trying to get myself up
> to speed on in-situ visualization for large scale simulation, so any
> related information on in-situ visualization is very much appreciated!****
>
>  ****
>
> Hong****
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