Paraview

Introduction

ParaView is an open-source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application. This ParaView container is enabled with the NVIDIA IndeX plugin and the OptiX ray-tracing backend. It can be used in tandem with an official ParaView ]] .. ver .. [[ client or standalone as ParaView Web. Note: no ParaView client GUI in this container. However, ParaView Web Visualizer app is included for a ParaView-like experience inside a web browser. You can start ParaView Web with a ‘pvweb’ command and point your browser to proper http://HOST:PORT/ Default port is 8080 (’–port NNNN’ to change, ‘–help’ for help). For more information, please check: NGC: https://ngc.nvidia.com/catalog/containers/nvidia-hpcvis:paraview

Versions

  • 5.9.0

Commands

  • pvserver

  • pvbatch

  • pvpython

  • pvdataserver

  • pvrenderserver

  • mpirun

Module

You can load the modules by:

module load ngc
module load paraview

Example job

Warning

Using #!/bin/sh -l as shebang in the slurm job script will cause the failure of some biocontainer modules. Please use #!/bin/bash instead.

To run paraview on our clusters:

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH -A myallocation     # Allocation name
#SBATCH -t 1:00:00
#SBATCH -N 1
#SBATCH -n 1
#SBATCH --job-name=paraview
#SBATCH --mail-type=FAIL,BEGIN,END
#SBATCH --error=%x-%J-%u.err
#SBATCH --output=%x-%J-%u.out

module --force purge
ml ngc paraview