Updated 2021-05-17
Run Paraview Interactively on the Cluster¶
Overview¶
- Runing Paraview interactively is very similar to any other interactive program. The steps are as follows:
- Set up VNC session
- Load Paraview and all its dependent programs
- Run Paraview
Set up VNC Session¶
- Please see the VNC guide for instructions on how to set up the Interactive VNC session
Load and Start Paraview on VNC¶
- Open terminal in the vnc window by clicking top left
Applications
>System Tools
> scroll down toterminal
- all commands here on will be typed in terminal in VNC
- Paraview depends on many other programs to run including
qt
,gcc
andMPI
. - For any program, to see available versions run
module avail <program name>
- Load all the programs and run Paraview with the following commands:
module load qt/4.8.2
module load gcc
module load python/2.7
module load mvapich2/2.1
module load paraview/4.3.1
paraview #runs paraview