ParaView

"ParaView is an open-source, multi-platform application designed to visualize data sets of varying sizes from small to very large. The goals of the ParaView project include developing an open-source, multi-platform visualization application that supports distributed computational models to process large data sets. It has an open, flexible, and intuitive user interface. Furthermore, ParaView is built on an extensible architecture based on open standards.

ParaView runs on distributed and shared memory parallel as well as single processor systems and has been successfully tested on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, IBM Blue Gene, Cray XT3 and various Unix workstations and clusters. Under the hood, ParaView uses the Visualization Toolkit as the data processing and rendering engine and has a user interface written using the Qt cross-platform application framework." ​link

• ParaView Homepage (​http://www.paraview.org)
• ParaView Manuals (​http://www.paraview.org/documentation)
• ParaView Prebuild Executables (​http://www.paraview.org/download)
• ParaView Wiki (​http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView)

• recommended webpages on more about ParaView
  • ​ParaView at DAAC - Data Analysis and Assessment Center

Run ParaView on a JUWELS vis node

We recommend to run ParaView on a JUWELS Vis-node in a VNC session. Therefore you should establish a VNC connection to JUWELS as described here. In case you started the VNC session with the "-profile vis" option, you will find an icon on your desktop named "ParaView (5.x)". Just click on this ican to start ParaView.

In case you would like a specific version of ParaView, you can start ParaView from a terminal window by hand. As ParaView is only available in the development stage, you must activate this stage first:

module purge
module use $OTHERSTAGES
module load Stages/Devel-2019a

Then you have to find out what versions of ParaView are available on JUWELS by

module spider paraview

The output shows you all available versions. To find out, which modules to load for a specific version, you have to call "module spider" again with the version name as parameter, e.g.:

module spider ParaView/5.8.0-opengl-Python-3.6.8

The output shows you what modules to load, e.g.:

You will need to load all module(s) on any one of the lines below before the "ParaView/5.8.0-opengl-Python-3.6.8" module is available to load.

      Stages/Devel-2019a  GCC/8.3.0  ParaStationMPI/5.2.2-1

So just load the necessary modules by:

module load Stages/Devel-2019a  GCC/8.3.0  ParaStationMPI/5.2.2-1 ParaView/5.8.0-opengl-Python-3.6.8