Remote rendering using VNC and ParaView

Remote rendering is also possible using the Virtual Network Computing (VNC, e.g. ​TigerVNC or ​TurboVNC) package. We advice you to use the strudel application to access an interactive desktop session on JURECA. See section vnc3d for a detailed description of a VNC session on JURECA.

Strudel provides you with the options

1. to login to JURECA - login node (vis:2xGPU) to run the vnc-server on a visualization login node, or
2. to JURECA - compute nodes (vis 2xGPU) to run the vnc-server on JURECA's visualization batch nodes:

connect to		pro	contra
JURECA - login node (vis:2xGPU)		rendering on GPU large memory no batch job needed no accounting pvserver may run in parallel on JURECA's compute nodes or visualization nodes	resources shared between users in case of pvserver running separately: the node pvserver is running on has to be explicitly specified in the Server Configuration Menu of the ParaView GUI
JURECA - compute nodes (vis:2xGPU)		dedicated resource rendering on GPU large memory pvserver may (should!) run in parallel on JURECA's visualization nodes ParaView GUI client and pvserver running on the same node, => connect to localhost:11111	accounting

Start ParaView on the remote desktop

In case you startet the VNC server with the option '-profile vis', your VNCViewer should look like this:

Now, just double-click on the ParaView-Icon to start the ParaView client.