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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>How do I get the X thing to display on a remote machine, when I am using openmesa???<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>First, my configuration: a 2-machine "cluster" with a total of 3 quad-cores, running ubuntu natty narwhal. head node IP:a.b.c.d (all 64-bit machines)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My remote machine: win-xp laptop with IP add: a.b.e.f (32-bit machine)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>MPICH1 up and running. I cannot use MPICH2 since the tomographic reconstruction package that I have only works under MPICH1. The recon<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>works fine and dandy within the cluster (so MPI is running, the cluster machines are happy with each other, and I can get in with my remote machine from home and chat with them nice-and-easy).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Now, the paraview bit:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I downloaded paraview source and did a manual install as per paraview.org notes to allow for MPI. I included OpenMesa in the configuration and the paraview installed fine. I can start up pvserver using mpi and start up paraview on the head node and that works.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>However, my problem is when I am trying to use my laptop in conjunction with the cluster. I have a win32 binary installation of paraview on my laptop.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Well I start up the server on the cluster using:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>mpirun -np 4 pvserver --use-offscreen-rendering<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>and it says waiting for client and Connection URL: cs://localhost:11111<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I start up the laptop paraview and ask it to use the server at a.b.c.d.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The server on the cluster gives an error message:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ERROR: In <dirpath>/vtkSocketCommunicator.cxx, line 823 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>vtkSocketCommunicator (0x185ecd0): Tag mismatch: got 8843, expecting 99991.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It is weird that I downloaded paraview3.10.1 for both win32 and linux x86-64, but the paraview version that opens up on my linux box says it is 3.11.1<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am wondering if this is a problem? I got both softwares from <a href="http://www.paraview.org/paraview/resources/software.html#latest">http://www.paraview.org/paraview/resources/software.html#latest</a>....<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I can provide more details on what all I have tried (basically all the stuff that google has thrown up from various paraview-related websites) w/o any luck.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Vinay<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>