ParaView on JURECA

​JURECA provides

• 1872 compute nodes and

• 12 visualization nodes equipped with
  • Two NVIDIA K40 GPUs per node
  • 2 x 12 GiB GDDR5 memory
  • 10 nodes with 512 GiB memory
  • 2 nodes with 1024 GiB memory

• Login nodes providing direct user access

There are basically 3 ways of how to do Remote Visualization with ParaView on JURECA:

Remote Visualization		pro	contra
X Forwarding		easy to use (ssh -X ...)	sending X/OpenGL commands is slow X Server on user workstation required (not a problem on Linux, might be a problem on Windows and Mac) X Server has to be compatible with OpenGL many OpenGL extensions need direct access to GPU
VNC
Remote Rendering using Client-Server mode

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