[Paraview] Paraview server and Paraview client versions

[Faiz Abidi]

Thanks Chuck! It clarifies some things.

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 1:21 PM, Chuck Atkins <chuck.atkins at kitware.com>
wrote:

>
> Hi Faiz,
>
> Quick question - if both compiled from source, what all needs to be same
>> for a client and server to connect and render successfully?
>>
>
> They both need to be the same version of paraview and use the same
> rendering backend, i.e. OpenGL vs OpenGL2.  ParaView now defaults to
> OpenGL2 so as long as you use the same source tree to build the client and
> server thenm they should be able to connect to eachother regardless of how
> they're built.
>
>
>
>> 1) if the client is compiled with openmpi while the remote server with
>> mpich, will it work?
>>
>
> Yep.
>
>
>
>> 2) And if both are compiled with openmpi, do the versions of openmpi also
>> need to be same?
>>
>
> Nope.  You can even build the client without any MPI support and the
> server with whatever MPI version you want.   None of that matters for the
> client and server to properly communicate.
>
> - Chuck
>



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