Great thanks for the rdav pointer.

On Nov 3, 2011, at 10:01 PM, burlen wrote:

> Hi Amit,
> 
> You should start by checking out the documentation on the wiki, 
> http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView#Server_Setup
> 
> Also take a look at how it was set up at RDAV
> https://wiki-rdav.nics.tennessee.edu/index.php/Using_ParaView_on_Nautilus_and_Kraken
> 
> Then let us know if you have specific questions.
> 
> Burlen
> 
> 
> On 11/03/2011 02:09 PM, Chourasia, Amit wrote:
>> David and Burlen,
>> 
>> Yes, the environment variables needs to be passed throught -D (doh!).
>> The build completed after changing to  a different MPI, I have another build 
>> compiling with boost libraries which seems to be chugging along well.
>> 
>> I tried `mpirun –np 4 pvserver` which seems to be listening on 11111 port
>> 
>> Now
>> 1) How do I go about setting things up such that end users can use this 
>> build.
>> 2) How do I integrate the schedulers queue for easy usage
>> 
>> Thanks
>> --Amit
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Nov 3, 2011, at 11:14 AM, David Partyka wrote:
>> 
>> I agree with Burlen, make sure you're passing in everything as -D arguments. 
>> Also I would start with a clean build if the mapreduce error wont go away.
>> 
>> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Burlen 
>> Loring<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>  wrote:
>>  Hi Amit,
>> 
>> Boost is very easy to install, it's only an un tar. Then you can point PV to 
>> it with -DBOOST_ROOT on your cmake command line.
>> 
>> Does cmake really check environment variables for open gl and mpi paths? 
>> It's possible however, I've always passed them on the command line. That may 
>> be your issue, you could look at the CMakeCache.txt to see if it's really 
>> pickuing those up.
>> 
>> Burlen
>> 
>> 
>> On 11/03/2011 09:05 AM, Chourasia, Amit wrote:
>> Mesa Build:
>> Using Burlen's helpful tips I have moved to another step
>> The cluster I was compiling on had python2.4.x which is not compatible
>> with some stuff in mesa7.11.
>> 
>> I found another build of python on the cluster which I ended up using to
>> solve build problems. I wish mesa provided a mechanism to point to another
>> python version rather than making users resort to monkeying with
>> environment variables and aliasing trickery
>> 
>> 
>> Paraview Build with OSMESA (no GPU)
>> I am using intel compiler and mvapich/1.2.7 as a first try
>> 
>> 1) The cluster does not have boost libraries so I had to turn
>> VTK_USE_BOOST=OFF.
>> However PARAVIEW_USE_VISITBRIDGE fails to compile because its seems to
>> have no method to compile when boost libraries are not available. So I had
>> to turn that off as well to march ahead, in the mean time will get boost
>> libraries installed on the cluster
>> 
>> How essential are boost libraries to VTK and Paraview?
>> 
>> 
>> 2)MPI troubles
>> 
>> I think there are problems on two places
>> 
>> During configure
>> __________________________________________________________________
>> CMake Warning (dev) at
>> /rmount/usr_apps/shells/cmake/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindMPI.cmake:81
>> (include):
>>   File /rmount/usr_apps/shells/cmake/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindMPI.cmake
>>   includes /work/achourasia/ParaView-3.10.1/CMake/GetPrerequisites.cmake
>>   (found via CMAKE_MODULE_PATH) which shadows
>> 
>> /rmount/usr_apps/shells/cmake/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/GetPrerequisites.cmak
>> e.
>>   This may cause errors later on .
>> 
>>   Policy CMP0017 is not set: Prefer files from the CMake module directory
>>   when including from there.  Run "cmake --help-policy CMP0017" for policy
>>   details.  Use the cmake_policy command to set the policy and suppress
>> this
>>   warning.
>> _________________________________________________________________
>> 
>> 
>> During Build
>> __________________________________________________________________
>> 
>> 
>> /work/achourasia/ParaView-3.10.1/VTK/Utilities/mrmpi/src/mapreduce.cpp(14):
>>  catastrophic error: could not open source file "mpi.h"
>>   #include "mpi.h"
>> __________________________________________________________________
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I am stumped because I do set the path to MPI include dirs and still see
>> this error
>> Will Paraview build/work correctly with Python2.4.x? If not which version
>> and how to specify another version of python during configuration
>> 
>> Here is my configure script where I set bunch of things
>> Again Burlen provided me most of these to get started (Thanks).
>> 
>> module load cmake
>> export CC=icc
>> export CXX=icpc
>> export  CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/work/achourasia/paraview_build
>> export  VTK_OPENGL_HAS_OSMESA=ON
>> export  VTK_USE_X=OFF
>> export  OSMESA_INCLUDE_DIR=/work/achourasia/mesa_build/include
>> export  OPENGL_INCLUDE_DIR=/work/achourasia/mesa_build/include
>> export  OPENGL_gl_LIBRARY=""
>> export  OPENGL_glu_LIBRARY=/work/achourasia/mesa_build/lib/libGLU.so
>> export  OSMESA_LIBRARY=/work/achourasia/mesa_build/lib/libOSMesa32.so
>> 
>> export PARAVIEW_BUILD_QT_GUI=OFF
>> export
>> MPI_COMPILER=/usr/apps/compilers/intel/mvapich-gen2multirail-1.0/bin/mpicxx
>> export MPI_LIBRARY=/usr/apps/compilers/intel/mvapich-gen2multirail-1.0/lib
>> export
>> MPI_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/apps/compilers/intel/mvapich-gen2multirail-1.0/includ
>> e
>> export CMAKE_C_FLAGS=" -lmpi"
>> export CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=" -lmpi++"
>> 
>>  #-DVTK_USE_BOOST=ON \
>> cmake \
>> -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug \
>>   -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON \
>>   -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
>>   -DPARAVIEW_DISABLE_VTK_TESTING=ON \
>>   -DPARAVIEW_TESTING_WITH_PYTHON=OFF \
>>   -DVTK_USE_BOOST=OFF \
>>   -DPARAVIEW_BUILD_QT_GUI=OFF \
>>   -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_PYTHON=ON \
>>   -DPARAVIEW_USE_MPI=ON \
>>   -DPARAVIEW_BUILD_PLUGIN=EyeDomeLighting \
>>   -DPARAVIEW_USE_VISITBRIDGE=OFF \
>>   -DVISIT_BUILD_READER_CGNS=OFF \
>>   -DVISIT_BUILD_READER_Silo=OFF \
>>   -DBUILD_DOCUMENTATION=ON \
>>   -DPARAVIEW_GENERATE_PROXY_DOCUMENTATION=ON \
>>   -DGENERATE_FILTERS_DOCUMENTATION=ON \
>>   -DDOCUMENTATION_HTML_HELP=ON \
>>   $*
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> mpich/1.2.7, mpich2/1.3.2 and openmpi/1.4.1 are other things I can also
>> try, but the trouble is somewhere else at the moment.
>> 
>> I would appreciate more insight into building Paraview.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks
>> --Amit
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 11/1/11 2:55 PM, "Burlen Loring"<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 
>>   wrote:
>> 
>> One thing I should clarify:
>> 
>> When I said the client and server apps can be compiled independently, I
>> meant with respect to X11/and OpenGL options. You will need to be aware
>> that other build options are not as flexible.  For instance if you want
>> your users to be able to use binaries from Kitware web site, you need to
>> enable the same plugin options, otherwise the server could crash for
>> instance when opening files. This is my experience up to ver 3.10, I
>> hope that in the future releases PV will be more intelligent about only
>> using a server side object if it's present.
>> 
>> On 11/01/2011 12:43 PM, Burlen Loring wrote:
>> Hi Amit,
>> 1.  Do I compile paraview with OSMesa or Xlib? (X is available on the
>> cluster, will this require X on client?). Is it better to avoid X?
>> The client and server are separate apps and can be compiled
>> independently. If you have graphics hardware on your cluster you will
>> want to use this and link against the accelerated open gl libraries. I
>> believe this requires X. If you do not have graphics hardware then you
>> can safely disable X on the server side and use OSMesa.
>>    2.  Do I compile with QT or without on cluster
>> The server app does not need qt, and you can safely compile it without
>> qt. The client app obviously needs Qt. You could provide a client with
>> the idea that users run the client remotely (eg using nx, or vnc) or
>> you could ask them to install the client on their workstation and
>> provide a configuration script so that they can launch jobs on your
>> cluster. The former seems to be easier for the users while in my
>> experience the latter provides better performance and usability. With
>> the caveat that it depends on the network connection of your users.
>>    3.  Which compiler and which MPI to use (we have intel and gnu
>> compilers, MPI, mvapich and openmpi) ?
>> Usually this choice is somewhat arbitrary. ParaView can compile with
>> issue using any of the combinations. Intel is supposed to produce
>> faster code than gcc and be better at optimization such as auto
>> vectorizing. Before deciding on mvapich or openmpi you should
>> determine if either has an advantage given your clusters interconnect.
>> 
>> The error you report is an issue in Mesa, a syntax error, probably
>> because they used syntax that is not supported by your version of
>> python. I recently encountered similar issues and simply modified the
>> Mesa source code to use the older more universal syntax. You/we should
>> probably complain about this to the Mesa developers since it is a pain
>> the neck!
>> 
>> Hope it helps
>> Burlen
>> 
>> On 11/01/2011 11:58 AM, Chourasia, Amit wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I am trying to compile paraview for general usage on one of our
>> clusters at SDSC.
>> I wanted to ask what are the common paraview installation practices
>> that are useful for general purpose. I would certainly need to
>> compile the paraview server
>> 
>>    1.  Do I compile paraview with OSMesa or Xlib? (X is available on
>> the cluster, will this require X on client?). Is it better to avoid X?
>>    2.  Do I compile with QT or without on cluster
>>    3.  Which compiler and which MPI to use (we have intel and gnu
>> compilers, MPI, mvapich and openmpi) ?
>> 
>> I looked at the following page and unsure how to go about this
>> http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView_And_Mesa_3D
>> 
>> At the moment I am stuck on mesa compilation and the choice I make
>> here will determine Paraview's compilation.
>> When I try to compile Mesa-7.11 or Mesa-7.9 I get the following error
>> 
>> python2 -t -O -O builtins/tools/generate_builtins.py
>> ./builtin_compiler>    builtin_function.cpp || rm -f builtin_function.cpp
>>    File "builtins/tools/generate_builtins.py", line 28
>>      with open(filename) as f:
>>              ^
>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>> 
>> I have tried to use
>> A) make linux-x86_64
>> B) ./configure --with-driver=xlib
>> --prefix=/work/achourasia/mesa_build/ --disable-gallium
>> --with-gallium-drivers=""
>> If I don¹t pass --disable-gallium  --with-gallium-drivers="" the
>> configure fails
>> checking for llvm-config... no
>> configure: error: LLVM is required to build Gallium R300 on x86 and
>> x86_64
>> 
>> Please advice
>> Thanks
>> --Amit
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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