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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Greetings<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am examining the example code for catalyst from Andy Bauer’s git repository (<a href="https://github.com/acbauer/CatalystExampleCode">https://github.com/acbauer/CatalystExampleCode</a>).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am trying to learn about the catalyst workflow before using it in my own in situ examples. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>To this end, I built catalyst from the nightly samples in the paraview download page (<a href="http://www.paraview.org/download/">http://www.paraview.org/download/</a>). However, I was unable to run the examples satisfactorily. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>The method of extending the paraview source tree failed from the sources given in the above page (paraview 4.1)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:red'>python catalyze.py -i Editions/Base -o ../catalyst_src<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:red'>fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:red'>Error: Command '['git', 'rev-parse', '--show-toplevel']' returned non-zero exit status 128<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'>I tried two of the catalyst sources <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>a.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'>Base+python: This builds properly and links with the example code (CxxFullExample)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>b.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'>Base+essentials+extras+python: This also builds and links with the example code, but I get the following runtime error:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:red'>ERROR: In /home/praveen/projects/catalyst/failed/base+essentials+extras+python/ParaViewCore/ServerImplementation/Core/vtkSIProxyDefinitionManager.cxx, line 565<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:red'>vtkSIProxyDefinitionManager (0x12af110): No proxy that matches: group=animation and proxy=AnimationScene were found.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:red'>ERROR: In /home/praveen/projects/catalyst/failed/base+essentials+extras+python/ParaViewCore/ServerImplementation/Core/vtkSIProxyDefinitionManager.cxx, line 565<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:red'>vtkSIProxyDefinitionManager (0x12af110): No proxy that matches: group=misc and proxy=GlobalMapperProperties were found.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:red'>ERROR: In /home/praveen/projects/catalyst/failed/base+essentials+extras+python/ParaViewCore/ServerImplementation/Core/vtkSIProxyDefinitionManager.cxx, line 565<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:red'>vtkSIProxyDefinitionManager (0x12af110): No proxy that matches: group=misc and proxy=StrictLoadBalancing were found.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:red'>ERROR: In /home/praveen/projects/catalyst/failed/base+essentials+extras+python/ParaViewCore/ServerImplementation/Core/vtkSIProxyDefinitionManager.cxx, line 565<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:red'>vtkSIProxyDefinitionManager (0x12af110): No proxy that matches: group=misc and proxy=ColorPalette were found.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>a)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'>Logs: base+essentials+extras+python_CxxFullExample.log base+essentials+extras+python_CMakeLists.txt, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'>The build base+python runs the example code, but does not connect with catalyst. Furthermore, upon running make test to test with the sample python script in ‘SampleScripts’ (which basically invokes CxxFullExample with the python script as an input argument, I get errors stating that it cannot load some vtk modules, which upon looking turn out not to be built at all <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>a.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'>Logs: LastTest.log (python script), and base+python_CMakeLists.txt for the catalyst build. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'>I would like to know what I am missing in these builds. It appears that some of the vtk modules are not being built:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'>Error: Could not import vtkCommonComputationalGeometryPython<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'>Error: Could not import vtkRenderingCorePython<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'>Error: Cannot import vtkPVServerManagerDefaultPython<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'>Error: Cannot import vtkPVServerManagerRenderingPython<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'>Error: Cannot import vtkPVAnimationPython<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>What is the correct way to get a working run for the examples supplied. Also, how do we connect to catalyst after this? My understanding is that we just load up paraview (4.1) and then the simulation would connect to catalyst after we hit ‘Connect to Catalyst’ and load up the ‘Coprocessing’ plugin. Does paraview have to be built from source?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>More specifically, is there a particular download version that might work, and what flags do we turn on in CMakeLists.txt? Is there any other set of examples (although I think the git examples demonstrate the workflow quite properly) that we could use to try catalyst?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Praveen.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Applied Engineer<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>NVIDIA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>http://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div>
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