[Paraview] Parallel ParaView linux package usage

[Léo Pessanha]

It runs with more than 2 processes using --use-offscreen-rendering.

But by passing this argument I wont be using my GPU resources, right?

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


2018-05-18 13:35 GMT+00:00 Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>:

> Hmm, try passing the `--use-offscreen-rendering` to the pvserver (for 5.5
> the option has changed).
> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 9:30 AM Léo Pessanha <leonardopessanha74 at gmail.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> > Hi!
>
> > By doing that I can only use 2 processes. Using 3 or more my workstation
> freezes trying to open the OpenGL contexts.
>
> > But I don't know if this happens only for me.
>
> > Em sex, 18 de mai de 2018 10:26, Utkarsh Ayachit <
> utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> escreveu:
>
> >> 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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