<div>Setting up a cluster is somewhat outside the scope of the paraview list.</div><div><br></div><div>However, the parallel chapter in the new paraview book begins with references that should help you.</div><div>See: <a href="http://paraview.org/Wiki/Users_Guide_Client-Server_Visualization">http://paraview.org/Wiki/Users_Guide_Client-Server_Visualization</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><div><div>There are two system admin tasks that you want to tackle.</div><div>1) Set up a shared filesystem such as SMB, nfs, pvfs etc.</div><div>2) Configure the MPI installation on each machine to know about and be authorized to connect to and run code on the rest of the machines. For both tasks you need to consult the documentation that comes with the related system software or let google do it.</div>
</div></div><div><br></div><div>Instead of testing the installation by running pvserver, I recommend you start with a hello world program and once that is working try pvserver.</div><div><br></div><div>Since this is a windows cluster you may want to try Microsoft Windows HPC server. It has fairly nice job scheduling (pbs like) features beyond what something like stock MPICH offers and has decent support for making use of hardware accelerated rendering. A demo of using ParaView on such a cluster is given in: </div>
<div><a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/The+HPC+Show/Open-source-HPC-code-Episode-22-Running-Paraview-on-Windows-HPC-Server">http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/The+HPC+Show/Open-source-HPC-code-Episode-22-Running-Paraview-on-Windows-HPC-Server</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><br clear="all">David E DeMarle<br>Kitware, Inc.<br>R&D Engineer<br>28 Corporate Drive<br>Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662<br>Phone: 518-371-3971 x109<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Yantao Zhang <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pkuzhangyt@gmail.com">pkuzhangyt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hi,<br>I recently met a problem when I try to use the server/client mode. <br><br>In my lab, several PCs are connected using Ethernet. <br>
Windows is running on each of them.<br>I want to use them as post-processing server.<br><br>I run<br> "mpiexec -np -hosts host1 host2 .... pvserver.exe"<br>Each host is a PC machine.<br><br>But I found I can connect to only one PC. <br>
When I connect to it, I can only see its local disk.<br>How can I make use of all these PCs? <br>How to build a parallel server for paraview?<br><br>Thanks very much.</span><br clear="all">,<div>roos.<br><br>
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