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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > _______________________________________________ > ParaView mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview > **** Kenneth Moreland *** Sandia National Laboratories *********** *** *** *** email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** *** ** phone: (505) 844-8919 *** fax: (505) 845-0833 _______________________________________________ ParaView mailing list [email protected] http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
