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# ParaView
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!!! note
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**[NoMachine](../how-to-use-merlin/nomachine.md)** is the official
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**strongly recommended and supported** tool for running *ParaView*.
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Consider that running over SSH (X11-Forwarding needed) is very slow, but
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also configuration might not work as it also depends on the client
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configuration (Linux workstation/laptop, Windows with XMing, etc.). Hence,
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please **avoid running Paraview over SSH**. The only exception for running
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over SSH is when running it as a job from a NoMachine client.
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## Usage
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### PModules
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Is strongly recommended the use of the latest ParaView version available in
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PModules. In example, for loading **paraview**:
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```bash
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module use unstable
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module load paraview/5.8.1
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```
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### Running ParaView
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For running ParaView, one can run it with **VirtualGL** to take advantatge of
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the GPU card located on each login node. For that, once loaded, you can start
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**paraview** as follows:
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```bash
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vglrun paraview
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```
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Alternatively, one can run **paraview** with *mesa* support with the below
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command. This can be useful when running on CPU computing nodes (with `srun` /
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`salloc`) which have no graphics card (and where `vglrun` is not possible):
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```bash
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paraview-mesa paraview
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```
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#### Running older versions of ParaView
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Older versions of ParaView available in PModules (i.e. `paraview/5.0.1` and
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`paraview/5.4.1`) might require a different command for running paraview with
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**Mesa** support. The command is the following:
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```bash
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# Warning: only for Paraview 5.4.1 and older
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paraview --mesa
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```
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#### Running ParaView interactively in the batch system
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One can run ParaView interactively in the CPU cluster as follows:
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```bash
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# First, load module. In example: "module load paraview/5.8.1"
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srun --pty --x11 --partition=general --ntasks=1 paraview-mesa paraview
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```
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One can change the partition, number of tasks or specify extra parameters to
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`srun` if needed.
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