[Paraview] Paraview on SGI Altix 4000

[Biao She]

Thanks for you reply, Ken.
In stead of black square, the result is even more strange if I run
without the --use-offscreen-rendering flag. It is basically a huge
collection of random dots, and if I move the camera, the glxgears even
appears in the display.

Aaron

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Moreland, Kenneth <kmorel at sandia.gov> wrote:
> It sounds like it could be a rendering problem.  Perhaps the offscreen
> rendering is misbehaving.  What happens when you run without the
> --use-offscreen-rendering flag?
>
> -Ken
>
>
> On 9/22/08 11:28 AM, "Biao She" <shebiao at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks.
>> Has anyone ever installed paraview on SGI Altix 4000? If I compiled
>> paraview with "PARAVIEW_USE_MPI" option setting to ON, the paraview
>> didn't work properly. For example, I first started the MPI version
>> pvserver on the supercomputer by issuing "DISPLAY=:0 mpirun -np 4
>> ./pvserver --use-offscreen-rendering",  then I launched paraview
>> locally and connected it to the pvserver on the supercomputer.
>> Normally, at the center of paraview display area, there should have
>> three reference lines of a coordinate system. However, my paraview
>> just displayed a black square.
>> I have also tried the non-MPI version and the precompiled version of
>> Paraview. They worked fine. I don't know if the problem is MPI
>> implementation problem. I have heard that SGI's MPI implementation is
>> kind of different. However, other programs, such as glxgears, worked
>> fine by using the SGI implementation. Also, if I use the x forwarding
>> to start the MPI version of pvserver, the rendering result is also
>> correct. So, I am not quite convinced that the problem is MPI problem
>> and I am quiet confused.
>> I will highly appreciate any of your comments.
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Aaron
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