[Paraview] bug in ParaView 3.4.0 server

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Is there any error message shown on the server? Doesn't look like you
are able to render on the server.

Utkarsh

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Stephen Wornom
<stephen.wornom at sophia.inria.fr> wrote:
> Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>>
>> Are there any error messages outputted on the server side?
>> Can you try this:
>> When connected to the server and looking at the outline (which you say
>> is rendered fine) go to Edit|Settings. In the Options dialog open up
>> the "Render View" tree on the left pane and select "Server". There in
>> the "Remote Rendering Paramaters" group ensure that "Remote Render
>> Threshold" is set to 0 and checked. Now hit Ok.
>
> The thresh hold was by default 3 mb. When I set it to 0, the client crashes
> each time I try to establish a connection.
> Navier> Waiting for server...
> ERROR: In /tmp/ParaView-3.4.0/Servers/Common/vtkServerConnection.cxx, line
> 67
> vtkServerConnection (0x5dd9240): Server Connection Closed!
>
> Is it important that each cpu has two cores?
> Stephen
>
>>  Does the outline still
>> render fine? If not I am guess there's some issue with rendering on
>> the server side.
>>
>> Utkarsh
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 3:46 AM, Stephen Wornom
>> <stephen.wornom at sophia.inria.fr> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I am trying to visualize a data set with 500,000 vertices using pv 3.4.0
>>> without success.
>>>
>>> 1-step 1: I start the server with this script
>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>> #PBS -N "Paraview_32"
>>> #PBS -l "nodes=16:nef:ppn=2"
>>> #PBS -l "walltime=4:00:00"
>>> cd $PBS_O_WORKDIR
>>> server=`hostname`
>>>
>>> ulimit -s unlimited
>>>
>>> echo "The server is listening on host $server "
>>> #/usr/local/bin/mpiexec2 /usr/local/paraview/bin/pvserver
>>> --use-offscreen-rendering
>>>
>>> mpiexec --comm=mpich2 /home/install/paraview-340/bin/pvserver
>>> --use-offscreen-rendering
>>>
>>> step 2: I identify which processor is listening on host
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> step 3: I open pv 3.4.0 on the client, enter the server name and host
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> The files are read correctly on the client and the outline of the mesh
>>> can
>>> be seen on the client screen. When I try to visualize a solution field
>>> (points, wireframe, surface) I get the following error.
>>>
>>> ERROR: In /tmp/ParaView-3.4.0/Servers/Common/vtkServerConnection.cxx,
>>> line 67
>>> vtkServerConnection (0x5df84f0): Server Connection Closed!
>>>
>>> step 4: when I do on the server
>>> ------------------------------------------
>>> ls -al /tmp/ParaView-3.4.0/Servers/Common/vtkServerConnection.cxx
>>> I get
>>> cannot access /tmp/ParaView-3.4.0/Servers/Common/vtkServerConnection.cxx:
>>> No
>>> such file or directory
>>>
>>> step 5: If I copy all the vtu,...etc files to the client and open pv
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> 3.4.0, we can visualize the same data with no
>>> problems (the paraview server on the server is not used).
>>>
>>> Can anyone help resolved the problem. I can send all the files to anyone
>>> who
>>> will help resolve the problem.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Stephen
>>> p.s.
>>> The above works correctly with a small mesh (43,000 vertices) using
>>> 8-procs.
>>> The above was with a mesh (500,000 vertices)using 32-processors.
>>>
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