[Paraview] Getting started with paraview

[Wylie, Brian]

Daniel,
 
In general the following configuration works best for most.

- pvclient (run on your desktop)
- pvserver (run with MPI on your cluster)

Simply start the pvserver on your cluster (something like "mpirun -np 8
pvserver"), then start the client with the server machine name and port
on the command line (something like "pvclient --server-host=foo.bar.com)

Also I do NOT recommend the use of dataserver and renderserver unless
you really, really have a good reason to do so.... :)
 

  Brian Wylie - Org 1424
  Sandia National Laboratories
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	From: paraview-bounces+bnwylie=sandia.gov at paraview.org
[mailto:paraview-bounces+bnwylie=sandia.gov at paraview.org] On Behalf Of
dpollack at beckman.com
	Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 12:28 PM
	To: paraview at paraview.org
	Subject: [Paraview] Getting started with paraview
	
	

	Hi - 
	
	I recently obtained a 42 cpu (850 mhz each) cluster on which I'm
trying to get paraview running. 
	I've tried both 2.4 and 3.0.1 binaries (from www.paraview.org)
with limited success. With 3.0.1, I've gotten the servers running with
the help of MPI on each child node and paraview running on the head
node, but have not been able to load any models across the cluster. With
2.4, I was able to get pvdataserver and pvrenderserver running on the
child nodes, but I was unsure what they were doing or how to connect the
head node with pvclient. When I tried to run pvclient, I got numerous
errors with unknown causes and no available results on google. I have
some questions to help me get started: 
	
	1. Which version of paraview should I be running? The
screenshots on the website appear to be an older version than 3.0.1. 
	
	2. What distribution of clients, render servers and data servers
should I have? Is there a sequence of commands or order of execution
required to get all of the clients and servers connected to one another?
Is it the same for both versions? 
	
	3. Is there any online documentation available for either
version of paraview? I have the paraview 2.4 guide on order, but how
helpful will that be for 3.0.1? 
	
	4. Are there any online repositories of datasets for paraview? I
am mostly interested in learning how to load and manipulate the visible
man data, which I already have access to. Computational fluid dynamics
examples would also be helpful. 
	
	
	Daniel Pollack 

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