11/6/2022 0 Comments Paraview superbuild![]() Download & unpack them on your headless machines for instant ParaView. They’re available for the current version (5.9.0) all the way back to version 5.6.0 – check them out here. ![]() But, whilst doing my homework & checking my Superbuild notes, I noticed that ParaView now provide headless Linux binaries for download □ #PARAVIEW SUPERBUILD HOW TO#That’s what I was going to write about – how to build your own headless ParaView using Superbuild. #PARAVIEW SUPERBUILD INSTALL#In the olden days, if you wanted a version of ParaView that ran headless then you had to compile your own □Įnter, ParaView Superbuild a neat project that takes the sting out of building ParaView (and it’s many dependencies) and (optionally) packaging it up so that you can easily install it on other machines. ![]() The headless versions actually perform (almost) as well you’d expect from a machine with graphics hardware. We can do lots with these utilities though – pvbatch can be used to create unattended post-pro using python scripts, pvserver is one half of a client/server arrangement & pvpython gives us a way to interact with the ParaView Python API. Note: When I say headless ParaView, I mean pvbatch, pvserver & pvpython – you can’t actually build a headless ParaView – a graphical user interface without graphics has some usability issues. Another option would be to compile a version of ParaView that doesn’t need graphics hardware or an X-server – headless ParaView. One option would be to rig up a separate post-processing queue on a machine with decent graphics hardware. In the past you had to get a bit creative to get this to work. This means that I’m often running ParaView on machines that have no graphics provision at all – no graphics card, no X-server, no ability to show anything graphical on a screen □ I’ve mentioned before that I do everything on the cluster – mesh, solve and post-pro. Niche ParaView knowledge? Sure, but the cool kids aren’t reading this, so let’s geek out… Headless ParaView I’ll also throw in a neat way to connect to said machine (especially if you’re behind a firewall). If you ever need to run ParaView on a machine that doesn’t have graphics hardware or an X-server (whether it’s in the cloud or in your closet) then stick with me. So let’s go with headless ParaView instead. This email was intended to be a quick guide to using ParaView Superbuild (bear with me) but, whilst updating my notes, it turns out that things have changed and that’s knowledge you’ll never need □♂️ ![]() It’s Robin from CFD Engine fresh from another week masquerading as a teaching assistant in the UK’s most-mediocre home school. ![]()
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