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ParaView

This article describes the steps to launch a ParaView Server on UBELIX compute nodes and connect a local ParaView client with it.

Prerequisites

The local (on your local machine) ParaView version need to match the version loaded on UBELIX.

Launch ParaView server

First, as mentioned, establish a SSH session with Port forwarding, another port in the range [2000-65000] should be selected: 

ssh -Y -L 15051:localhost:15051 submit03.unibe.ch

Then load the modules:

module load ParaView

The ParaView version can be displayed using:

module list ParaView

Currently Loaded Modules Matching: ParaView
  1) ParaView/5.8.1-foss-2020b-mpi

Thus, in this example ParaView 5.8.1 need to be used in the local machine.

To start the ParaView server on a compute node you can use:

pvserver-parallel 15051   ### use your selected port number

This submits a job with 1 core for 1h in the epyc2 partition. The tool prints a reminder to stop the job if not required anymore and shows the queueing information regularly:

ParaView remote Server submitted to compute nodes
  when finished please kill the server using:
     scancel 2394231
job 2394231 status:
   JOBID  PARTITION    STATE               START_TIME
 2394231      epyc2  PENDING                      N/A
pvserver ready to connect on port 15051.
When finished, please stop ParaView Server using
 scancel 2394231

Please cancel your job with scancel $JOBID or all your running jobs using scancel -u $USER if not needed anymore.

Additional resources can be requested by --slurm-args="" option with the desired slurm options, e.g. 3 cores for 20 min:

pvserver-parallel 15051 --slurm-args="--cpus-per-task=3 --time=00:20:00"

In addition ParaView arguments can be added without any prefix.

Connect local client

Finally, the client on your local machine can connect using localhost and the selected port, here 15051. E.g. using pvpython:

pvpython

WARNING: Python 2.7 is not recommended.
This version is included in macOS for compatibility with legacy software.
Future versions of macOS will not include Python 2.7.
Instead, it is recommended that you transition to using 'python3' from within Terminal.

Python 2.7.16 (default, May  8 2021, 11:48:02)
[GCC Apple LLVM 12.0.5 (clang-1205.0.19.59.6) [+internal-os, ptrauth-isa=deploy on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from paraview.simple import *
>>> Connect("localhost", 15051)
Connection (cs://localhost:15051) [2]