[Paraview] remote rendering with paraview

2009-02-05 Thread Jim Montine
I download and I am running paraview 3.4.0. I run pvserver on a linux cluster (where a .cas data file to visualize resides) andI run paraview on my Windows laptop. First I tried running: pvserver --use-offscreen-rendering on the server (which has gfx hardware) without setting DISPLAY

Re: [Paraview] remote rendering with paraview

2009-02-05 Thread Jim Montine
. From: David E DeMarle [mailto:dave.dema...@kitware.com] Sent: Thu 2/5/2009 11:20 AM To: Jim Montine Cc: paraview@paraview.org Subject: Re: [Paraview] remote rendering with paraview On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Jim Montine jmont...@sgi.com wrote: I download

Re: [Paraview] remote rendering with paraview

2009-02-05 Thread David E DeMarle
:20 AM To: Jim Montine Cc: paraview@paraview.org Subject: Re: [Paraview] remote rendering with paraview On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Jim Montine jmont...@sgi.com wrote: I download and I am running paraview 3.4.0. I run pvserver on a linux cluster (where a .cas data file to visualize

Re: [Paraview] remote rendering with paraview

2009-02-05 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
You need the DISPLAY environment variable because the standard way to get a gfx context on *nix is through an X server. To create an off-screen rendering context you first have to connect to an X server. It is also a convenient way to specify which GPU you want to use if a system has more

Re: [Paraview] remote rendering with paraview

2009-02-05 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
. From: Moreland, Kenneth [mailto:kmo...@sandia.gov] Sent: Thu 2/5/2009 2:27 PM To: Jim Montine; David E DeMarle Cc: paraview@paraview.org Subject: Re: [Paraview] remote rendering with paraview You need the DISPLAY environment variable because the standard way to get