Paraview on Farber

Below is the list of ParaView version available on Farber as of August 2020. The current default version is 4.1.0

[mkyle@farber ~]$ vpkg_versions paraview
Available versions in package (* = default version):

[/opt/shared/valet/2.0.1/etc/paraview.vpkg_json]
paraview ParaView - Open Source Scientific Visualization
  4.1    alias to paraview/4.1.0
* 4.1.0  Version 4.1.0 packaged binary distribution
  5.4.0  Version 5.4.0 packaged binary distribution
  5.8.0  Local build with Qt5, Open MPI, various extensions

To use ParaView with a GUI on Farber a script has been created to run ParaView with vnc. The below steps will set up load the ParaView software into your environment. Then set run the vnc scripts which will setup ParaView's GUI to run with VNC.

[traine@farber ~]$ vpkg_require paraview/5.8.0
Adding dependency `openmpi/3.1.6:fca,hcoll,mxm` to your environment
Adding dependency `intel-python/2019.5.098:python3` to your environment
Adding dependency `gcc/9.1.0` to your environment
Adding dependency `tcltk/8.6.10` to your environment
Adding package `paraview/5.8.0` to your environment
(/opt/shared/paraview/5.8.0) [traine@farber ~]
(/opt/shared/paraview/5.8.0) [traine@farber ~]paraview-vnc

New 'login000:1 (traine)' desktop is login000:1

Starting applications specified in /opt/shared/paraview/5.8.0/bin/paraview-xstartup
Log file is /home/1201/.vnc/login000:1.log

You will require a password to access your desktops.

Password:
Verify:

New 'login000:1 (traine)' desktop is login000:1

Starting applications specified in /opt/shared/paraview/5.8.0/bin/paraview-xstartup
Log file is /home/1201/.vnc/login000:1.log

After running the paraview-vnc the GUI you will need to set up tunnel. The steps on how to do this will are shown below for the PuTTY SSH client and Linux/Mac Terminals.

Open Putty

Open a new terminal session on your local machine. Set up a SSH Tunnel using the below ssh command.

$ ssh -L 5901:localhost:5901 mkyle@farber.hpc.udel.edu

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    Farber cluster (farber.hpc.udel.edu)

    This computer system is maintained by University of
    Delaware IT.  Links to documentation and other online
    resources can be found at:

      http://farber.hpc.udel.edu/

    For support, please contact consult@udel.edu

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[mkyle@farber ~]$