Hi,<div><br></div><div>Currently the client and server versions have to exactly match for a connection to be made. If you built ParaView from source you need to check out the release branch in git instead of master which is the current development version ( 3.11.1 ).<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Pai, Vinay (NIH/NHLBI) [E] <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paiv@nhlbi.nih.gov">paiv@nhlbi.nih.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal">How do I get the X thing to display on a remote machine, when I am using openmesa???<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></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)<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">My remote machine: win-xp laptop with IP add: a.b.e.f (32-bit machine)<u></u><u></u></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<u></u><u></u></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).<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Now, the paraview bit:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I downloaded paraview source and did a manual install as per <a href="http://paraview.org" target="_blank">paraview.org</a> 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.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></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.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Well I start up the server on the cluster using:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">mpirun -np 4 pvserver --use-offscreen-rendering<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">and it says waiting for client and Connection URL: cs://localhost:11111<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I start up the laptop paraview and ask it to use the server at a.b.c.d.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">The server on the cluster gives an error message:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ERROR: In <dirpath>/vtkSocketCommunicator.cxx, line 823 <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">vtkSocketCommunicator (0x185ecd0): Tag mismatch: got 8843, expecting 99991.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<u></u> <u></u></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<u></u><u></u></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" target="_blank">http://www.paraview.org/paraview/resources/software.html#latest</a>....<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></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.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Vinay<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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