Overview
Although ParaView is installed as a module on the Teton cluster, to be able to use it in its GUI form you will need to FastX onto Teton and start it up from a terminal.
Using
Use the module name paraview to discover versions available and to load the application.
Accessing the GUI
Teton is a compute cluster, so its architecture is not designed to run GUI type applications. To be able to run ParaView as a GUI you will need to use FastX to log onto Teton and run the application from there.
Note:
This is a multi-purpose workstation and not specific to only ParaView.
Consider using this workstation as a way to view view simulation results, not as a compute node to run simulations on.
It has not been tested to run pvserver parallel jobs.
There is no 3D GPU acceleration on this machine.
The following steps demonstrate using FastX via a web browser. Desktop clients (version 3) are available.
Step 2: Once connected, click the "+" to start a new XFCE session.
Step 2: Open a terminal, and load/start paraview.
Notice in the terminal we use the following:
[]$ module load paraview/5.8.1 []$ paraview
The reason for the format of the second command is that this is a multi-purpose service and not a ‘dedicated visualization’ service. As noted, there is no 3D GPU acceleration, so rendering is in software and we need to indicate the rendering capabilities.
Step 3: Once finished, log out, close the window and terminate the session:
