[Paraview] Parallel ParaView linux package usage

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Leo,

With 5.2, use the mpiexec under the `lib/paraview-5.2` instead of the one
under `bin`.

Utkarsh

On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 5:07 PM Léo Pessanha <leonardopessanha74 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi!

> Just finished downloading ParaView version 5.2 in Linux Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

> Tried to run in parallel by doing:

> cd paraviewFolder/bin
> ./mpiexec -n 2 ./pvserver


> No sucess.

>> ./mpiexec: error while loading shared libraries: libmpl.so.1: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory


> After doing some research I added the paraview/lib folder to my
LD_LIBRARY_PATH

> export
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/opt/pv52/lib/paraview-5.2:/opt/pv52/lib/
> cd paraviewFolder/bin
> ./mpiexec -n 2 ./pvserver


> No sucess.

>> [mpiexec at leognome] HYDU_create_process (./utils/launch/launch.c:69):
execvp error on file /home/leo/paraview/pv52/bin/./hydra_pmi_proxy (No such
file or directory)
>> [mpiexec at leognome] HYD_pmcd_pmiserv_proxy_init_cb
(./pm/pmiserv/pmiserv_cb.c:520): assert (!closed) failed
>> [mpiexec at leognome] HYDT_dmxu_poll_wait_for_event
(./tools/demux/demux_poll.c:77): callback returned error status
>> [mpiexec at leognome] HYD_pmci_wait_for_completion
(./pm/pmiserv/pmiserv_pmci.c:181): error waiting for event
>> [mpiexec at leognome] main (./ui/mpich/mpiexec.c:405): process manager
error waiting for completion


> Finally I entered the folder paraviewFolder/lib/paraview-5.2  to dig the
problem and found there are another set of
executables(paraview/pvserver/pvpython/etc) there.


> cd paraviewFolder/lib/paraview-5.2
> ./mpiexec -n 2 ./pvserver

> Sucessful run.

> ##################################################################

> Then I went to ParaView download page and downloaded the latest version
5.5
> In the 5.5 package I did:

> cd paraviewFolder/bin
> ./mpiexec -n 2 ./pvserver


> Sucessful run.

> My question is, what happened? Was it supposed to happen? There was
structural directories changes?

> Leonardo Pessanha
> Laboratory of Computational Methods in Engineering
> Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - COPPE
> Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil

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