Utkarsh, I appreciate your response. I spent this past week first trying to get the X Server running and it seems it never worked so I gave up on that and have turned to building ParaView with the Llvm CPU Rendering option enabled. It's taken me a while but I believe I have all the dependencies installed including OSMesa 9.2.2 but I don't know what to make of the CMakeLists.txt file. The wiki isn't too clear on this part and I have no experience with CMake.
I copied the CMakesList.txt that comes with the source files for ParaView4.0.1 to a new source directory and have also created a new directory for my build and followed the advice to point the ccmake to the source while in my new build directory. I get a EMPTY CACHE message The following ling under the Configuring ParaView for use with OSMesa, there is a script but I don't know what to do with that. I assumed I would need to apply it to the CMakeList.txt but the variables seem different than what I am seeing in the second link below in the Configure ParaView With CMake on Unix - the image in that section shows different variables and no description on how to apply the Llvm stuff or it may and it's going over my head. http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/ParaView_And_Mesa_3D http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView:Build_And_Install Could you give me some advice on how to use CMake so I can get a version of Paraview with OSMesa Llvm as the source for rendering? Appreciate any advice! Thanks! Noah On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit < utkarsh.ayac...@kitware.com> wrote: > Are you using x forwarding when you connect to these machines? What is > localhost:10.0 display to? Try running some other X-based application > like gvim, or glxgears etc. and see where that window pops up. If it's > popping up on your laptop, you're using X forwarding. Every render on > the server will then be forwarding X calls to your laptop and that > would explain the slow down. > > If there an X server running on the "remote site"? If so, check with > your sysadmin to get access to that X if possible. If not, you'll need > to recoming with OSMesa, I am afraid. > > Utkarsh > > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 1:07 AM, Noah Taylor <haonrol...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am using ParaView 4.0.1 since I developed a python script for > > interpretation on this version. I am able to run ParaView fine on my > local > > Ubuntu Desktop. I have setup an EC2 AWS instance both a GPU and a CPU > > instance both running Ubuntu but they both are giving me the same > problem of > > very very slow rendering for each time step with the offscreen rendering > > option turned on. I also run into this problem on a Unix supercomputer I > am > > trying to run my code on. On my local machine it takes less than a second > > for each time step I am rendering to be outputted with the same settings > and > > I am not spinning anything up like pvserver - on the node instances I > have, > > it is taking well around a minute or probably more for each frame. > > > > I have read through a lot of similar issues and the documentation for X > > connections but I am not having any luck. The default DISPLAY is set to > the > > localhost:10.0 and I have tried changing that to the localhost:0.0 but it > > gives me the bad -X connection error. From there, I followed previous > > mailing list instructions and tried spinning up the pvserver (I don't > know > > why since I am not trying to serve anything just render frames) but I > get an > > error with the shared libraries that they're too short. I am using the > > default downloadable version of 4.0.1 since I want to try and keep this > as > > simple as possible but I don't know if these have the mpi turned on by > > default. Has anybody ran into this Bad X Connection issue and found an > easy > > way around it besides messing with the OSMesa and recompiling? I'd really > > appreciate any pointers :) > > > > Thanks, > > Noah > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView > > > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > > http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview > > >
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