ParaView is a software module available on Comet.
To run the interactive/desktop version of ParaView you should first start our X11 Desktop session via the Open OnDemand service.
Do not run ParaView via SSH + X11 - this is unsupported and is not an acceptable use of the login servers
To access ParaView on Comet, run module load ParaView. This will load the default version of ParaView.
An overview of the module information is shown below (module -r spider ^ParaView$):
ParaView:
Description:
ParaView is a scientific parallel visualizer.
Versions:
ParaView/5.11.2-foss-2023a
ParaView/5.13.2-foss-2023a
For detailed information about a specific "ParaView" package (including how to load the modules) use the module's full name.
Note that names that have a trailing (E) are extensions provided by other modules.
For example:
$ module spider ParaView/5.13.2-foss-2023a
If there are multiple versions of ParaView listed, then you can load a specific version as follows:
$ module load ParaView/version_string
You can find the most up to date information whilst logged on to Comet by running module -r spider ^ParaView$.
The module ParaView has the following embedded help text (module help ParaView):
Description
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ParaView is a scientific parallel visualizer.
More information
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- Homepage: https://www.paraview.org
The default version of the module ParaView has the following dependencies: