Page History

...

1. go to http://www.paraview.org/files/v3.8/ and download the appropriate "ParaView-3.8.0-RC1" for your platform. It must be 3.8.0, and must be RC1, because that is what matches what is already installed on lens. Install this client on your system.
2. save a copy of lens.pvsc on your machine as well.
   • (If your username on your local machine does not match your username on lens, edit the lens.pvsc file, change
     • <Argument value="lens.ccs.ornl.gov"/> to include your lens username:
     • <Argument value=username@lens.ccs.ornl.gov"\> and change
     • <Server name="Lens" resource .... to
     • <Server name="Lens-Username" resource ... FIXME (left off here)
3. run ParaView 3.8.0-RC1 on your machine
4. Configure your local plugins.
   1. Tools -> Manage Plugins
      1. Under "Local Plugins", select "SLACTools" and hit "Load Selected" if it's not already loaded. Also, click the grep triangle next to "SLACTools" to expand a menu, and make sure "Auto Load" is checked so that you don't have to repeat this every time you run ParaView.
      2. You may want to do the same for "CSCS_PointSpritePlugin", which is useful particle visualization (though it doesn't presently work on Mac).
5. connect to lens
   1. Press the "Connect" button in the main controls toolbar.
      1. press the "Load Servers" button.
      2. Navigate to your "lens.pvsc" file, select it, and hit "OK".
   2. Under "Choose a Server" you should now see "lens". Select that and hit "Connect".
   3. A dialogue will pop up. The defaults are probably ok. Don't select less than 16 for "Number of Cores", because that makes the X11 server unhappy for some reason. Hit "Connect".
   4. Two more windows should open up, one of which is an X terminal. In it, enter your lens passcode.

Tips and Tricks

Exporting Slice Data (Re-

...

sampled to a

...

Uniform Rectilinear Grid)

Occasionally it is useful to re-sample unstructured data to a structured grid. For example, this can be used to export data in a form more usable by other software.

...