ParaView/VRPN with MS-MPI

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ParaView with MS-MPI and VRPN

  • Download and install the following support packages:
    • MS Visual C++ 2017 Express Edition:
    • MS-MPI 2008
    • Git for Windows:
    • CMake (v3.12.0):
    • Qt 5.9 (msvc2015_64)
    • Python 2.7.3, x64
    • Ninja build system.
      • You can download the exe, or build from source
      • Exe: https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/releases
      • Build from Source
        • Install MSVC++ (link above)
        • Download and install Python 2.7 (link above)
        • Download and install Git for Windows (link above)
        • Open “Git Bash” and run the following to checkout ninja’s source code:
        • Open “Visual Studio 2017 Command Prompt (x64)” from the start menu and run the following:
          • cd \src\ninja
          • C:\Python27\python.exe bootstrap.py
          • (if this doesn't work, try C:\Python27\python.exe configure.py --bootstrap)
          • This should generate ninja.exe
          • The note about Windows file locking can be safely ignored.
      • Add C:\src\ninja to the system PATH:
        • Open Start menu
        • Right click on “My Computer”, select “Properties”
        • “Advanced System Settings”
        • “Environment Variables”
        • Select “Path” in “System variables”
        • Add “;C:\src\ninja” to the variable value string.
        • Close and reopen any open command prompts for this to take effect.
    • VRPN
        • In Git Bash, do:
        • Then in the MSVC 2017 (x64) command prompt, do
          • cd \src\vrpn
          • cmake-gui .
            • Note: CMake must be launched from the MSVC shell for cmake to detect the compilers correctly.
        • In the CMake GUI:
          • Set source dir to C:/src/vrpn
          • Set binary dir to C:/src/vrpn-bin
          • Click “Configure”, use ninja and default compiler
          • Make to set the CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE appropriately (Release)
          • “Configure” again if needed, then “Generate”. You can close CMake GUI after it is done generating
        • In the MSVC 2017 (x64) command prompt, do
          • cd \src\vrpn-bin
          • ninja
        • If any errors about python27_d.lib appear, re-run cmake-gui, check the “advanced” option, filter to variables containing “python”, and uncheck all python variables. configure, generate, and build again.
  • Checkout ParaView source code
  • Configure ParaView
    • Run “cmake-gui” from a (MSVC 2017 x64) command prompt
    • Click “Browse source”, select “C:/src/ParaView”
    • Click “Browse build”, create and select “C:/src/ParaView-build”
    • Click “Configure”
      • Use the “Ninja” generator
      • Use the default compilers
    • Make sure it finds your Qt5
      • C:\Qt\5.9\msvc2015_64\lib\cmake\Qt5
    • Check the “Advanced” box and set the following options:
PARAVIEW_ENABLE_PYTHON True
PARAVIEW_USE_MPI True
PARAVIEW_BUILD_QT_GUI True
PARAVIEW_BUILD_PLUGIN_VRPlugin True
VTK_Python_VERSION 2.7
    • Click “Configure” again. The MPI_* and VR options should now appear. Any *MPI* variables that are not listed below can be left blank. Set the following:
MPI_C_INCLUDE_PATH C:/Program Files/Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2/Inc
MPI_CXX_INCLUDE_PATH C:/Program Files/Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2/Inc
MPIEXEC C:/Program Files/Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2/Bin/mpiexec.exe
VTK_MPIRUN_EXE C:/Program Files/Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2/Bin/mpiexec.exe
MPI_C_LIBRARIES C:/Program Files/Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2/lib/i386/msmpi.lib
MPI_CXX_LIBRARIES C:/Program Files/Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2/lib/i386/msmpi.lib
MPI_LIBRARY C:/Program Files/Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2/lib/i386/msmpi.lib
PARAVIEW_USE_VRPN True


    • Click “Configure” again. The VRPN options are now available. Set the following options:
VRPN_INCLUDE_DIR C:/src/vrpn-bin/
VRPN_LIBRARY C:/src/vrpn-bin/vrpn.lib;C:/src/vrpn-bin/quat/quatd.lib
    • Click “Configure”
    • Click “Generate”
  • Build ParaView
    • Open Visual Studio Command Prompt x64 2017
    • Enter the following:
      • cd \src\ParaView-build
      • ninja
  • Running ParaView with MS-MPI
    • At this point, you should be able to run ParaView in parallel using the MS mpiexec executable:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2\Bin\mpiexec.exe" -np 2 C:\src\ParaView-build\bin\pvserver.exe

Distributing the exe

To run the exe on slave computers for rendering:

  • Install Microsoft Visual C redistributable pack (C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Redist\MSVC\14.14.26405\vc_redist_x64.exe) onto each cluster slave
  • Install MS-MPI 2008 onto each computer. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=14737
  • Copy the /bin/ folder to each slave computer, at the same location (C:/paraview-build/bin)
  • You can now run pvserver on all slaves/clients
    • Run smpd.exe on all render computers
    • Use mpiexec <relevant args> pvserver.exe <relevant-pvx>.pvx to main computer to run pvserver
    • Run the built Paraview.exe from main computer. Connect to pvserver instance.

To run the exe (with gui) on another computer:

  • Install *** QT5.9 onto computer
  • Copy all QT dll's into the bin folder (C:\Qt\5.9\msvc2015_64\bin)
  • Copy Python27.dll into bin folder. On Windows7x64, it resides in C:/Windows/System32 (even if you did a 64 bit installation)
  • Copy /bin/ folder.
  • Run Paraview.exe
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