Changes between Version 24 and Version 25 of vnc3d

Timestamp:

02/19/16 14:59:58 (8 years ago)

Author:

Jens Henrik Goebbert

Comment:

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vnc3d

@@ -52 +52 @@
 Please notice that the VNC server is only available on vis-nodes!
 
-=== Prerequisite: Create a VNC password and a startup script on JURECA
+==== prerequisite: Create a VNC password and a startup script on JURECA
 This step is a prerequisite for using VNC and has only to be done '''once'''.
 
@@ -59 +59 @@
 It works as follows:
 
-{{{ #!ShellExample
+{{{ #!sh
 # request allocation on visualization node ('vncpasswd' only available on vis-nodes)
 salloc -N 1 -p vis --gres=gpu:0
 
 # spawn interactive application 'bash' on the visualization node
-srun -n 1 --pty /bin/bash -i
+srun -n 1 --pty /bin/bash -i 
 
 # create .vnc directory in HOME
@@ -71 +71 @@
 
 # create VNC password for later authentication when connecting VNC viewer with VNC server
-vncpasswd # now type in your vnc password
+vncpasswd # -> type in your VNC password (which will be stored in ~/.vnc/passwd)
 
 # create/overwrite xstartup-script
@@ -87 +87 @@
 
 To allocate a vis node with 512 GByte main memory for one hour, use:
-{{{ #!ShellExample
+{{{ #!sh
 # request allocation and spawn VNC server on visualization node
 salloc -N 1 -p vis --gres=mem512,gpu:1 --start-xserver --time=1:00:00
@@ -150 +150 @@
 After typing in your VNC password, you will have access to the remote graphical desktop running on the visualization node of JURECA.
 
-=== 4. Use hardware acceleration 
+=== 4. Use hardware acceleration in your VNC session 
 Any OpenGL application running in your VNC session should be started with '''vglrun''' to use the hardware acceleration provided by the visualization nodes.
+
+==== e.g. ParaView
+Open a terminal in your VNC session and:
+{{{ #!sh
+# What versions of ParaView are available?
+module spider ParaView
+
+# load ParaView dependency
+module load intel-para/2015.07
+
+# load ParaView
+module load ParaView/4.3.1
+}}}
+
+{{{ #!sh
+# start ParaView using VirtualGL for hardware acceleration
+vglrun ParaView
+}}}
 
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