ParaView on Setonix Remote Visualisation

Owned by Ali Zamani
Last updated: Sept 11, 2023
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ParaView is an open-source, multi-platform data analysis and visualisation application. ParaView users can quickly build visualisations to analyse their data using qualitative and quantitative techniques. The data exploration can be done interactively in 3D or programmatically using ParaView’s batch processing capabilities.

ParaView was developed to analyse extremely large datasets using distributed memory computing resources. It can be run on supercomputers to analyse datasets of petascale size as well as on laptops for smaller data.

Launching Paraview on Setonix Remote Visualisation

First, start a remote desktop session and launch a terminal. For details on how to do this, see Getting Started With Setonix Remote Visualisation.

Then, run the following commands to launch ParaView:

module load virtualgl/3.1 paraview/5.11.0
vglrun paraview

After executing these commands, the ParaView application window will open:

Additional Resources:

Comprehensive user training modules for ParaView are available as slide decks below: