[Paraview] paraview osmesa render on supercomputer nodes

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Di,

While it's not entirely obvious to me what could be going wrong, you
may to check these docs out instead:
https://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Reverse_connection_and_port_forwarding#A_Forward_Connection_Over_an_ssh_Tunnel

Utkarsh

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 7:04 AM, 程迪 <chengdi123000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I just compiled the OSMesa version of paraview 5.4.1 on Tianhe-2
> supercomputer. My trouble is to connect the pvserver running on computing
> nodes while I am on login node with ssh tunnelling (-L).
>
> Here is what I did
>
> My computer (win7 64 bit)
> ---ssh -L15801:localhost:15801 through VPN--->
> LN31 (login node, RHEL maybe, using slurm)
>> srun -n 24 pvserver -sp=15801 --mesa --use-offscreen-rendering
>> --disable-xdisplay-test
> ---ssh -N -f -L15801:localhost:15801 though internal connection-->
> CNxxxx (computing node)
>
> And here is the error:
>
> ```
> Waiting for client...
> Connection URL: cs://cn10687:15801
> ERROR: In /HOME/pp569/soft/ParaView-v5.4.1/VTK/Common/System/vtkSocket.cxx,
> line 206
> vtkServerSocket (0x20e9c20): Socket error in call to bind. Address already
> in use.
>
> ERROR: In
> /HOME/pp569/soft/ParaView-v5.4.1/ParaViewCore/ClientServerCore/Core/vtkTCPNetworkAccessManager.cxx,
> line 349
> vtkTCPNetworkAccessManager (0x14ad080): Failed to set up server socket.
>
> Exiting...
> ```
>
> It seems not working. I am pretty sure that the PC -- ssh -L through VPN -->
> LN works well. What happend in LN -- ssh -L --> CNxxx link?
>
> I have searched the internet for something, I found that LLNL did some work
> on it
> [https://hpc.llnl.gov/data-vis/vis-software/paraview/running-paraview-in-client-server-mode].
>
> They used `ssh -R` to map from LN to CN, rather than `ssh -L` and run
> paraview in RC mode, does it make any sense?
>
> However, in Tianhe-2, the `ssh -R` is forbidden. So I cannot use this
> method.
>
> Di Cheng
> Visting scholar at UConn ME Combustion Diagnostic Lab
> Engineer of Research Center of China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics
> Phone: +86-l58Ol5949ll
>
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>
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