[Paraview] Attempting to run Catalyst CFullExample

Bill Sherman shermanw at indiana.edu
Thu Jun 6 12:59:28 EDT 2013


Hi Andy,

> Hi Bill,
>
> The Catalyst examples were meant more for batch processing examples
> (i.e. specified output files at given intervals). I didn't test them
> with connecting to Catalyst and all of the Python scripts in there
> probably have that functionality disabled. I'm updating some of the
> stuff to make Live In Situ work better but those fixes probably won't go
> into ParaView master until next week. I'll send you an email for
> notification when it's fixed.

Okay, sounds good, I'll watch for your email.

In the meantime, what is the process for running them in batch mode?

> Andy

	Thanks,
	Bill

>
> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Bill Sherman <shermanw at indiana.edu
> <mailto:shermanw at indiana.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Andy, list,
>
>
>         My changes went into ParaView on 5/29 (the commit SHA is
>         617e91e3f318a22a54aca7e82b8ab1__a0f5d88820) which is after your
>         version of
>         ParaView. That should fix your issue. After doing a "git pull"
>         you can
>         do a "git checkout 617e91e3f318" to get that revision but I would
>         suggest just using the master version (also make sure to do a git
>         submodule update from the main source directory).
>
>         The Catalyst examples commit SHA which you'll want is
>         f041507af5f6f010c9f8a2de8b3014__ae19a2394b.
>
>         There are plans to make the Catalyst examples tested nightly so that
>         things don't get out of sync causing these headaches. That probably
>         won't get done before the 4.0 release though.
>
>
>     That will be good.
>
>     Okay, so progress report -- works more, but not all the way.
>
>     I tested both with a git master from this morning as well as
>     with "git checkout 617e91e3f318", and got the same results for
>     both.
>
>     And before I report the output for "CFullExample", I thought I'd try a
>     couple of the other examples ("CxxFullExample" and
>     "CxxImageDataExample",
>     and I got a different (non-working) result -- and that is, that it just
>     returned to the prompt without apparently connecting to ParaView, but
>     it did produce datafiles for every 10th time step (as well as the
>     "fullgrid"
>     for the first and last time steps) -- actually, that now happens for all
>     the examples I've tried.
>
>
>     Okay, so back to what happens with "CFullExample", which now is clearly
>     connecting to the ParaView Catalyst tool. After it connects, a popup
>     appears saying:
>     "Catalyst Disconnected"
>
>     "Connection to Catalyst Co-Processor has been terminated
>     involuntarily. This implies either a communication error, or
>     that the Catalyst co-processor has terminated. The Catalyst
>     session will now be cleaned up. You can start a new one if you
>     want to monitor for additional Catalyst connection requests."
>
>     Now, behind it, in the pipeline browser, I can see that some modules
>     have been connected to teh catalyst input icon:
>     * PVTrivalProducer1
>     * Slice1
>
>     But then I click "OK" on the popup, and everything goes away.
>
>     The shell and the "Output Messages" window report this:
>     ERROR: In
>     /home/avl/VR/Apps/ParaView/__ParaView_git20130605/VTK/__Parallel/Core/__vtkSocketCommunicator.cxx,
>     line 812
>     vtkSocketCommunicator (0x2b009d0): Could not receive tag. 1
>
>     Looks like definite progress, but not quite there.
>
>         Regards,
>         Andy
>
>
>     Thanks,
>     Bill
>
>
>         On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Bill Sherman
>         <shermanw at indiana.edu <mailto:shermanw at indiana.edu>
>         <mailto:shermanw at indiana.edu <mailto:shermanw at indiana.edu>>> wrote:
>
>         Hello again,
>
>
>         FYI: I just updated the Catalyst examples (commit SHA
>         f041507af5f6f010c9f8a2de8b3014____ae19a2394b) to work with
>
>         ParaView as of
>         today's gatekeeper review (commit SHA
>         a3508bd9e0164c85968d6cde64e227____5cd57aab3c).
>
>
>
>         Great. I now have some time to do more testing and learning.
>
>
>         If you get issues, let me know.
>
>
>         Okay, so I'm now getting a different error when I run the Catalyst
>         application/script:
>         % ./FEDriver SampleScripts/feslicescript.py
>
>         Traceback (most recent call last):
>         File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
>         File "SampleScripts/feslicescript.____py", line 87, in
>         DoCoProcessing
>         coprocessor.____DoLiveVisualization(____datadescription,
>         "localhost", 22222)
>         File
>         "/home/avl/VR/Apps/ParaView/____ParaView_git20130528/Build/____lib/site-packages/paraview/____coprocessing.py",
>         line 155, in DoLiveVisualization
>         self.__LiveVisualizationLink = servermanager.____vtkLiveInsituLink()
>
>         NameError: global name 'servermanager' is not defined
>
>         And that is repeated 11 times.
>
>
>         So, the versions I'm using are: the Catalyst examples from
>         master.zip
>         where the files are all dated 05/29/13 17:59.
>
>         And a ParaView git clone that reports:
>         % git show HEAD
>         commit 723b5455491ef913ed1083f75e34c2____820d1f06e8
>
>         Merge: d915ca0 3e6ceec
>         Author: Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com
>         <mailto:utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>
>         <mailto:utkarsh.ayachit at __kitware.com
>         <mailto:utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>>>
>
>         Date: Fri May 24 10:41:11 2013 -0400
>
>         Merge topic 'update_version_rc2'
>
>         3e6ceec Update version to 4.0.0-RC2
>
>         So I guess that's a slightly different commit than what you were
>         testing against -- but I downloaded it 05/28/13, so only one day
>         difference.
>
>         I can try a newer (or different) version of ParaView, but I'm not
>         sufficiently familiar with git to know how to request a specific
>         commit code.
>
>         Recommendations?
>
>         Andy
>
>
>         Thank you,
>         Bill
>
>
>         On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Bill Sherman
>         <shermanw at indiana.edu <mailto:shermanw at indiana.edu>
>         <mailto:shermanw at indiana.edu <mailto:shermanw at indiana.edu>>
>         <mailto:shermanw at indiana.edu <mailto:shermanw at indiana.edu>
>         <mailto:shermanw at indiana.edu <mailto:shermanw at indiana.edu>>>__>
>         wrote:
>
>         Lucas, Andy,
>
>         Thank you both for your responses.
>
>
>         On 05/29/2013 12:42 PM, Andy Bauer wrote:
>
>         Hi Bill & Lucas,
>
>         I was on vacation the last several days and am now finally
>         catching up.
>
>         Thanks for the info on the examples not working with the 4.0 release
>         candidates. I haven't tested them in a while so it's possible that
>         something is out of sync. As Lucas mentioned, Catalyst had quite
>         a bit
>         of changes recently but it should have calmed down by now. I'll
>         try and
>         get the examples updated as well in the next couple of days. Once
>         ParaView 4.0 comes out I'll tag the examples as well and
>         hopefully in
>         the not too distant future put up a dashboard with the examples
>         running
>         against ParaView master to help keep things in sync.
>
>
>         Great.
>
>
>         I think Lucas answered your questions well but let us know if
>         there's
>         still something that isn't quite clear.
>
>
>         Yes, I think once I see a working example and the steps needed
>         to get
>         there I should be off to the races. I haven't decided yet
>         whether I'll
>         go back and compile the 05/14/13 version of ParaView, or perhaps
>         wait
>         until you've had a chance to update the examples for the upcoming
>         release.
>
>         I've got a book chapter due, so I may just wait until I get that
>         done
>         and see where things are.
>
>         Regards,
>         Andy
>
>
>         Thanks again for your help,
>         Bill
>
>
>
>
>
>



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