[Paraview] Guide to installing paraview for offscreen rendering

[Amit Goel]

Hi Ishan

I am also trying to do something similar. For now I tried using Python on my mac with default binary build but it doesnt work. Hence I have same question to ask the Gurus here:

1. I used CCMAKE to build paraview. CCMAKE, which is graphical/ncurses based, and in advanced mode - has hundreds of options (spread over 14 pages) that I dont remember myself which options I chose last time I built paraview myself. Hence instead of ccmake, is there another command based way to build Paraview ? Or can I run CCMAKE first time and save the config file so that I remember what option I chose while building last time ? If yes then which file is generated as a result of ccmake that I can copy and preserve and then use it again and again to rebuild with same parameters or change one or two paramteres (such as path to HDF5).

2. I need to build paraview in client and server config with python, C++, MPI and HDF5 support. Is there a simple step by step guidance on wiki on how to do it ?
I found following by the way:
http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Setting_up_a_ParaView_Server
http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/images/a/a1/Cluster09_PV_Tut_Setup.pdf

Are these the only setup instructions? Or are there more pages / links somewhere.

Thanks and Regards

Amit







On Sep 23, 2015, at 5:27 PM, Ishan Tembhekar <ishan.tembhekar at caltech.edu<mailto:ishan.tembhekar at caltech.edu>> wrote:

Hi,

I have been using Paraview (directly run from binary) on my Mac for 2 years now and have used its python shell effectively to render images and save them by using scripts.

But the current method involves on-screen rendering and I am currently limited by the size of my simulations. (Paraview starts hanging when I try and render over a million spheres)

I have access to a cluster (Red Hat 6) where I can use MPI. I have looked at a lot of forums where there are discussions about offscreen rendering using Mesa.

What I would love to do: Build paraview such that I can submit my python scripts on the cluster as jobs and have Paraview work on my vtp files in parallel and render images offscreen.

If this is possible, can someone guide me as to how I can do that? The paraview wiki pages are slightly complicated for me and I am new to building libraries using the terminal.

Thanks a lot !

-Ishan
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