Hi Dan, Thanks for the correction -- I should have read your post closer!
Thanks, Andy On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Dan Lipsa <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi John, > > I had imagined that I’d run a simulation on N ranks, have catalyst bound >> to them and be able to do vis on those N ranks. But in fact, when I connect >> to a live simulation, I have to “extract” results from them and then render >> them back on the client. >> >> >> >> Is this the case or did I miss something? >> > > Just to confirm Andy's answer, you can do the rendering on a separate > ParaView server (pvserver), which can be the same as the server you run the > simulation on. Catalyst will send extracts to this server which will render > them. > Only images will be send back to the client. > > We show that use case at the end of our article. > > http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/722 > > Dan > > > > >> >> >> The parallel image generation appears to work as advertised, but the >> images go off to disk and not to the renderwindow. Is there a way on >> configuring it so that I can see the actual rendering taking place in the >> renderview? I wanted to display the contents of a custom render plugin >> using cuda based rendering on many GPUs and be able to interact with it, >> but I am obviously missing something in my setup. >> >> >> >> thanks >> >> >> >> JB >> >> >> >> *From:* Andy Bauer [mailto:[email protected]] >> *Sent:* 26 August 2014 15:34 >> *To:* Biddiscombe, John A. >> *Cc:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* Re: [Paraview] Catalyst question >> >> >> >> Hi John, >> >> >> This live capability is now available and recently has been cleaned up >> quite a bit. There are still a couple more small changes that are waiting a >> code review process before they go into the master branch. The user's guide >> needs an update for a bunch of new information (live, catalyst editions, >> zero-copy arrays) that's important for Catalyst. We're also doing some >> preliminary testing with a newly developed ADIOS writer for better IO >> performance as well. >> >> Getting back to the live viz stuff, when you create a Catalyst Python >> script and export it using the wizard you'll have the option to enable live >> viz (it's the same wizard page as the screenshot output specification). >> Then, while your simulation is running use the Catalyst->Connect option to >> connect. There are two tests (pv.CatalystLiveSetBreakpoint and >> pvcs.CatalystLiveSetBreakpoint) that demonstrate the newly implemented live >> functionality which now includes the option to set a breakpoint in the >> simulation. >> >> If you get a chance to try it out, let me know what you think. >> >> Andy >> >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 3:40 AM, Biddiscombe, John A. <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Dear Catalyst people >> >> >> >> I dragged out an old simulation demo I created some time ago and got it >> working with paraview/catalyst from git master branch - my plan was to test >> a live visualization of the simulation with the paraview GUI connected to >> the simulation. I had thought this capability was now possible, but I have >> not been following development closely and it looks like I was mistaken. >> >> >> >> Is it possible to visualize the simulation live - rather than just >> generate images (which works fine). (I had a quick skim through the user >> manual, but didn’t see this feature mentioned). >> >> >> >> Thanks >> >> >> >> JB >> >> >> >> -- >> >> John Biddiscombe, email:biddisco @.at.@ cscs.ch >> >> http://www.cscs.ch/ >> >> CSCS, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre | Tel: +41 (91) 610.82.07 >> >> Via Trevano 131, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland | Fax: +41 (91) 610.82.82 >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Powered by www.kitware.com >> >> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at >> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html >> >> Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: >> http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView >> >> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: >> http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Powered by www.kitware.com >> >> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at >> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html >> >> Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: >> http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView >> >> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: >> http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview >> >> >
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