[Paraview] User trying to build with catalyst -- need guidance

[Andy Bauer]

Hi Rich,

I'd suggest that initially just build ParaView from the full source code.
The Catalyst editions are meant to be slimmed down versions of ParaView to
reduce the memory load for specific configurations. See
http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/606 for information on the Catalyst
editions.

Dave may have more information on building Catalyst as a library for the
BG/Q but if the simulation code already uses CMake then see the
CMakeLists.txt at
https://github.com/Kitware/ParaViewCatalystExampleCode/blob/master/CxxFullExample/CMakeLists.txt.
If the simulation code doesn't use CMake then the easiest thing is to
create the adaptor as a library and build that with CMake and then just
link the code to that library. An example of that is at
https://github.com/acbauer/miniFE-2.0_ref_Catalyst where the adapter is
built with CMake and links to Catalyst and the Makefile in src just points
to the adapter library.

Have you gone through the Catalyst User's Guide yet? It's available at
http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/images/4/48/CatalystUsersGuide.pdf. I hope to
have an updated version available in a week or two.

Regards,
Andy

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Cook, Rich <cook47 at llnl.gov> wrote:

>  Thanks, Tim, I’ll follow your approach of using the mailing list and
> asking specific questions.
>
>  My current question is this:  which of these should I download?
>
>
>  Since this is for a BG/Q machine, I believe I’m going to have to do a
> cross-compile.
>
>  Thanks
> — Rich
>
>  On Feb 6, 2015, at 5:25 PM, Tim Gallagher <tim.gallagher at gatech.edu>
> wrote:
>
>   Hi Rich,
>
> There may be a few who are willing to help out if you can provide some
> specific questions or issues you run into.
>
> Have you looked through the documentation at
> http://www.paraview.org/in-situ/ ? I got Catalyst up and running in our
> code (not on a BG/Q but on different clusters) with the information in the
> documentation and by asking some specific questions here on the list. For
> me, the hardest part was converting our data into VTK data -- I did not
> have any exposure to VTK prior to taking the Catalyst leap. But it turned
> out to be (relatively) straight forward for what we are doing.
>
> I will be happy to answer things I can and for things I can't, hopefully
> somebody else will jump in.
>
> Tim
>
> ------------------------------
>  *From: *"Rich Cook" <cook47 at llnl.gov>
> *To: *paraview at paraview.org
> *Sent: *Friday, February 6, 2015 7:23:24 PM
> *Subject: *[Paraview] User trying to build with catalyst -- need guidance
>
> Hello,
> We have not used catalyst here and I have a user that is interested in
> trying it out on our BG/Q machine with a huge code on hundreds of thousands
> of nodes.  ;-)
> Is there a brave soul willing to hold our hands through this process?
> Thanks.
>
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