Changes between Version 7 and Version 8 of ParaViewJUWELS

Timestamp:

07/01/20 14:21:48 (4 years ago)

Author:

Herwig Zilken

Comment:

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ParaViewJUWELS

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 Before you can start a parallel !ParaView job on JUWELS, first establish a VNC connection to a vis login node and open the !ParaView-GUI on this VNC desktop, as describes above. Then you can start a parallel !ParaView job and connect the !ParaView GUI to this job.
 
-Please note that you have to start the EGL Version of the !ParaView server (pvserver) on the JUWELS batch partition! To start a parallel job, first create a Slurm job file with parameters which fits your needs. Here is an example of such a file. In this example we name the file "start_pvserver.slurm".
+Please note that you have to start the EGL Version of the !ParaView server (pvserver) on the JUWELS batch partition! To start a parallel job, first create a SLURM job file with parameters which fits your needs. Here is an example of such a file. In this example we name the file "start_pvserver.slurm".
 {{{ #!sh
 #!/bin/bash
@@ -85 +85 @@
       pvserver
 }}}
-Start this job script by sbatch:
+Submit this job script to the batch system by sbatch:
 {{{ #!sh
 sbatch --account=<your_budget_name> --partition=batch ./start_pvserver.slurm
 }}}
-Now you have to wait for your job to start. You can check the state of the job (pending, running, ...) whit the squeue command:
+Now you have to wait for your job to start. You can check the state of the job (pending, running, ...) with the squeue command:
 {{{ #!sh
 squeue -u <your_username>
@@ -98 +98 @@
 }}}
 
-Now you have to connect your !ParaView GUI to this node. Please note that a successful connection is only possible when your !ParaView GUI (paraview) and your !ParaView server (pvserver) have the SAME version (5.8 in this example).
+Now you have to connect your !ParaView GUI to this node. Please note that a successful connection is only possible when your !ParaView GUI (paraview) and your !ParaView server (pvserver) have the SAME version number (5.8 in this example).
 
 In the !ParaView GUI, select the File->Connect menue. If the rank 0 node is not already in the list of existing configurations, press the "Add Server" button to add this connection.
-Give this configuration a name, and in the "Host" line, fill in the name of the rank 0 node, in this example "jwc00n064" for ethernet or "jwc00n064.ib" for infiniband.
-Click on "Configure", select "Manual" as start type and save the connection.
+Give this new configuration a name, and in the "Host" line fill in the name of the rank 0 node, in this example "jwc00n064" for ethernet or "jwc00n064.ib" for infiniband.
+Click on "Configure", select "Manual" as start type and save the configuration.
 Now you will find the rank 0 node in the list of configurations. Just select this entry and press "Connect".
 
 You can check if the connection was successful by various ways:
-1. In the Pipeline Browser of the !ParaView GUI, you can see the name of the rank 0 node on top
+1. In the Pipeline Browser of the !ParaView GUI, you can see the name of the rank 0 node on top.
 2. In the !ParaView GUI you can open the "Memory Inspector" (menue View->Memory Inspector). The memory inspector shows you the actual client/server configuration.
-3. Look for "Client connected" message in the slurm output file
+3. Look for "Client connected" message in the slurm output file.
 {{{
 Waiting for client...