ParaView/Run on Remote Machine

Here are instructions for running Paraview on some selected remote machines.

In general, this involves:

1. Launching an interactive job using the machine's job scheduler
2. Loading whatever required software is needed on the session
3. Launching the Paraview server on the session
4. Connecting to the remote Paraview server through a local Paraview instance

Retired Machines

Eureka (ALCF)

Connect to Eureka

• From the command line on the Colorado machine,

  ssh username@eureka.alcf.anl.gov

• Enter 4 digit pin, followed by the number on the CRYPTOCard

Submit Interactive Job

• From the command line on Eureka, cp /home/jmartin/qsub_interactive_command.sh to your home directory. Open qsub_interactive_command.sh and change the total time you want to run paraview (time), and the allocation your account is under (account).

  ./qsub_interactive_command.sh nodes

where nodes is the total number of nodes you want. Each node has 8 cores, and 32 GB of memory.

Janus (CUBoulder Research Computing)

Video Tutorial (use the paths below, NOT the ones in the Video) http://fluid.colorado.edu/~matthb2/janus/pv_on_janus.html

Running the UI on Portal0

 soft add @paraview-3.8.0
 soft add +paraview-3.8.0-gnu-ompi-covis
 vglrun paraview

and then start and connect to the server:

Starting the Server on Janus

 . /projects/jansenke/matthb2/env-gnu.sh
 qsub -q janus-debug /projects/jansenke/matthb2/pvserver-gnu_runscript-sysgl.sh

and use checkjob or look at the output files to figure out which node your rank0 is on and connect ParaView to that (or change it to use reverse connections if you prefer).

Tukey (ALCF)

ParaView GUI running on portal0 at Colorado

Video Tutorial about how to run a pvserver-syncio in parallel on the Tukey visualization nodes and connect the pvserver to a ParaView Gui running on portal0 at Colorado

 http://fluid.colorado.edu/~mrasquin/Documents_HIDE/Tukey/ParaviewOnTukeyFromPortal0/index.html

This video can be copied from /users/mrasquin/public_html/Documents_HIDE/Tukey/ParaviewOnTukeyFromPortal0 on the viz nodes.

ParaView GUI running on the Tukey login node

Video Tutorial about how to run a pvserver-syncio in parallel on the Tukey visualization nodes and connect the pvserver to a ParaView Gui running on the Tukey login node

 https://fluid.colorado.edu/~mrasquin/phasta/ParaViewOnTukey/index.html

This video can be copied from /users/mrasquin/public_html/Tukey/ParaviewOnTukeyThroughVNC on the viz nodes.

Note that because vncserver on the Tukey head node does not support OpenGL, this method does not allow the export of png pictures from the ParaView Gui. Indeed, the result will be completely fuzzy. The first method is therefore strongly recommended.