Yesterday, I tried the syntax you provided me, but it didn't work.
So I am thinking if there is anything that I should preconfigure.

Are you using it with reverse connection?

Thanks,
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> On Jul 27, 2017, at 8:07 AM, Patrick Begou 
> <patrick.be...@legi.grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> 
> I'm sorry but the syntax you want to use doesn't work on my servers. So I 
> cannot help.
> With the one I suggest I'm running 360 pvserver processes this morning to 
> visualize a large dataset on a cluster. May be you should try it.
> 
> Patrick
> 
> Mariam wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks for your reply.
>> The correct syntax to run on multiple hosts is: mpiexec –hosts N localhost M 
>> remotehost 1 appName
>> I tested with hostname and it worked; it printed the expected output.
>>  
>> However, by executing the same command with pvserver, it does not work. I 
>> ensured the location of paraview/pvserver is the same across both hosts. And 
>> I am providing the full path of pvserver.
>>  
>> I would like to make sure that I understood the concept correctly:
>> From host1, if I executed parallel pvservers with MPI (host1, host2, hostN), 
>> the clients should connect to host1.
>>  
>> Can you please confirm?
>>  
>> From: Patrick Begou <patrick.be...@legi.grenoble-inp.fr>
>> Date: Tuesday, July 25, 2017 at 5:45 PM
>> To: Mariam <mbahame...@gmail.com>, <paraview@paraview.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Paraview] MPI on multiple nodes
>>  
>> I think the syntax for mpiexec is:
>> 
>> mpiexec -np 8 --host host_one,host_two pvserver
>> 
>> This would launch 4 occurences of pvserver on host_one and 4 on host_two.
>> 
>> 1) first check mpi is running:
>> 
>> mpiexec -np 2 --host host_one,host_two hostname
>> 
>> This should print the name of the 2 hosts.
>> 
>> If it does not works check you can ssh from one host to the other without 
>> password.
>> 
>> 2) You need the same paraview/pvserver install on the two hosts in the same 
>> location (not imposed but it is easier to launch)
>> 
>> 3) May be use reverse connection from the parallel pvserver to the paraview 
>> client when you launch pvserver 
>> 
>> Patrick
>> 
>> 
>> Mariam wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I would like to ask about running pvserver in parallel with MPI on multiple 
>> hosts. Is that possible?
>>  
>> The following commands were tested successfully:
>> 1)      Running MPI on localhost:
>> mpiexec –n M localhost pvserver
>> 2)      Running MPI on remotehost:
>> mpiexec –host remotehost –n M pvserver
>>  
>> But I was not able to run: mpiexec –hosts 2 localhost 1 remotehost 1 pvserver
>> I run the following to test MPI on multiple hosts and it worked: mpiexec 
>> –hosts 2 localhost 1 remotehost 1 hostname
>>  
>> Is there any pre-configuration that should be done to pvserver? I want the 
>> clients to connect to the server (master server), and the jobs are 
>> distributed across multiple nodes.
>>  
>> Regards,
>> Mariam
>> 
>> 
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