Scripting Paraview

This tutorial will generate script to be run on NERSC to generate files in Paraview.

Generate Batch Script

Option 1 –Script Recording

1. Open local Paraview, go to Tools–Start Trace
2. After finished rendering, go to Tools–Stop Trace
3. It will pop up a python script with the recorded command lines.
4. Save this test.py file.

Option 2 – Save statefile as .py

1. Complete the normal operations in Paraview
2. When ready, go to File–Save State..., in the Files of type, select the dropdown with test.py format
3. Open the generated test.py file, and modify it as you like.

Run script on NERSC

See this documentation on running Paraview in Batch mode

1. Upload the local test.py file to NERSC
2. Use the following command to submit jobs

cori$ module load ParaView
cori$ start_pvbatch.sh 4 4 haswell 00:30:00 default debug `pwd`/test.py

1. You can change the file output directory in the test.py.
2. create a bash function to automate the process

pvbatch () {
    start_pvbatch.sh 4 4 haswell 00:30:00 default debug `pwd`/$1
}