[Paraview] Paraview server using off-screen rendering

[Ganesh Vijayakumar]

Dear Chuck,

  The machine is NICS - Darter -
http://www.nics.tennessee.edu/computing-resources/darter. The last I
checked, there's no paraview module on Darter. Hence my attempt at the
installation.

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 11:23 AM Chuck Atkins <chuck.atkins at kitware.com>
wrote:

> Hi Ganesh,
>
> WARNING: Target "vtkParallelMPI" requests linking to directory
>> "/opt/cray/mpt/7.1.3/gni/mpich2-gnu/49/lib/".  Targets may link only
>>  to libraries.  CMake is dropping the item.
>>
>
> It looks like you're building with GCC on a Cray.  Are you using gcc
> directly or are you using the wrappers provides by the PrgEnv-gnu module?
> The CMake FindMPI module should work correctly with the Cray wrappers.  In
> that case, cc and CC will work as mpicc and mpiCC, automatically wrapping
> the Cray MPI libraries into the compiler args, which the FindMPI module can
> detect appropriately.
>

This is what I have from ccmake window. Does this seem right?

 CMAKE_AR                         /usr/bin/ar
 CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE                 Release
 CMAKE_COLOR_MAKEFILE             ON
 CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER               /opt/cray/craype/2.2.1/bin/CC
 CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS
-L/lustre/medusa/gantech/software/mesa-10.6.0/lib
 CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG            -g
 CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_MINSIZEREL       -Os -DNDEBUG
 CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE          -O3 -DNDEBUG
 CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELWITHDEBINFO   -O2 -g -DNDEBUG
 CMAKE_C_COMPILER                 /opt/cray/craype/2.2.1/bin/cc
 CMAKE_C_FLAGS
-L/lustre/medusa/gantech/software/mesa-10.6.0/lib
 CMAKE_C_FLAGS_DEBUG              -g
 CMAKE_C_FLAGS_MINSIZEREL         -Os -DNDEBUG
 CMAKE_C_FLAGS_RELEASE            -O3 -DNDEBUG
 CMAKE_C_FLAGS_RELWITHDEBINFO     -O2 -g -DNDEBUG
 CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS
-L/lustre/medusa/gantech/software/mesa-10.6.0/lib
 CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS_DEBUG
 CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS_MINSIZE
 CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS_RELEASE
 CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS_RELWITH
 CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS    OFF
 CMAKE_Fortran_COMPILER           /opt/gcc/4.9.2/bin/gfortran
 CMAKE_Fortran_FLAGS
 CMAKE_Fortran_FLAGS_DEBUG        -g
 CMAKE_Fortran_FLAGS_MINSIZEREL   -Os
 CMAKE_Fortran_FLAGS_RELEASE      -O3
 CMAKE_Fortran_FLAGS_RELWITHDEB   -O2 -g -DNDEBUG
 CMAKE_HP_PTHREADS                OFF
 CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX
/lustre/medusa/gantech/software/Paraview-v4.3.1
 CMAKE_LINKER                     /sw/xc30/xalt/0.5.3-1/sles11.2/bin/ld
 CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM               /usr/bin/gmake

 MPIEXEC                          aprun
 MPIEXEC_MAX_NUMPROCS             2
 MPIEXEC_NUMPROC_FLAG             -n
 MPIEXEC_POSTFLAGS
 MPIEXEC_PREFLAGS
 MPI_CXX_COMPILER                 /opt/cray/craype/2.2.1/bin/CC
 MPI_CXX_COMPILE_FLAGS
 MPI_CXX_INCLUDE_PATH
/opt/cray/mpt/7.1.3/gni/mpich2-gnu/49/include
 MPI_CXX_LIBRARIES                /opt/cray/mpt/7.1.3/gni/mpich2-gnu/49/lib/
 MPI_CXX_LINK_FLAGS
 MPI_CXX_NO_INTERROGATE           /opt/cray/craype/2.2.1/bin/CC
 MPI_C_COMPILER                   /opt/cray/craype/2.2.1/bin/cc
 MPI_C_COMPILE_FLAGS
 MPI_C_INCLUDE_PATH
/opt/cray/mpt/7.1.3/gni/mpich2-gnu/49/include
 MPI_C_LIBRARIES                  /opt/cray/mpt/7.1.3/gni/mpich2-gnu/49/lib/
 MPI_C_LINK_FLAGS
 MPI_C_NO_INTERROGATE             /opt/cray/craype/2.2.1/bin/cc
 MPI_EXTRA_LIBRARY                MPI_EXTRA_LIBRARY-NOTFOUND
 MPI_Fortran_COMPILER             /opt/cray/craype/2.2.1/bin/ftn
 MPI_Fortran_COMPILE_FLAGS
 MPI_Fortran_INCLUDE_PATH
 MPI_Fortran_LIBRARIES
 MPI_Fortran_LINK_FLAGS
 MPI_LIBRARY                      /opt/cray/mpt/7.1.3/gni/mpich2-gnu/49/lib



> If it's a problem with HDF5 library, I'm not sure where I need to point to
>> the system installation.
>>
>
> If you load the cray-hdf5 module, that will set the HDF5_DIR environment
> variable to the correct location.  Unfortunately, CMake uses the HDF5_ROOT
> variable instead to look for it so you'll neet to set it accordingly.
>

I don't have much experience with cmake, but can I set additional variables
in the ccmake window? Should this variable show up there asking to be set
if you turn on the advanced mode toggle?


>
> If you're using the bash shell, the following sequence should prep your
> environment accordingly:
>
> # Start with a pristine environment
> module purge
> module load modules
>
> # Load the compilers
> module load PrgEnv-gnu
>
> # Use the Cray wrappers for the compilers instead of calling gcc and g++
> directly
> export CC=$(which cc)
> export CXX=$(which CC)
> export FC=$(which ftn)
>
> # Load the Cray-provided libraries
> module load cray-hdf5
> module load cray-mpich
>
> # Used by the CMake FindHDF5.cmake module
> export HDF5_ROOT=${HDF5_DIR}
>
> Try configuring ParaView starting from that environment.
>

I tried this. I get the same warnings. Any other advice?


>
> Out of curiosity, where is the machine located?  We maintain ParaView
> installations at many different HPC sites on a range of Cray systems.
>
> - Chuck Atkins
>
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