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8 changes: 4 additions & 4 deletions docs/software/sciviz/paraview.md
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Expand Up @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ A [ParaView Server Configuration (PVSC)](https://docs.paraview.org/en/latest/Ref
<CommandStartup>
<Options>
<Option name="UENV" label="ParaView uenv" save="true" readonly="false">
<String default="paraview/6.0.1:20251204"/>
<String default="paraview/6.0.1"/>
</Option>
<Option name="SLURM_ARGS" label="SLURM Arguments" readonly="false">
<String default="-n4 -pdebug -t10"/>
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<Argument value="daint.cscs.ch"/>
<Argument value="--"/>
<Argument value="paraview-reverse-connect"/>
<Argument value="paraview/6.0.1:20251204"/>
<Argument value="paraview/6.0.1"/>
<Argument value="$PV_SERVER_PORT$"/>
<Argument value="-n4 -pdebug --gpus-per-task=1"/>
</Arguments>
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And type in the following command:

```bash
ssh -R $PV_SERVER_PORT$:localhost:$PV_SERVER_PORT$ daint.cscs.ch -- paraview-reverse-connect paraview/6.0.1:20251204 $PV_SERVER_PORT$ -n4 -pdebug --gpus-per-task=1
ssh -R $PV_SERVER_PORT$:localhost:$PV_SERVER_PORT$ daint.cscs.ch -- paraview-reverse-connect paraview/6.0.1 $PV_SERVER_PORT$ -n4 -pdebug --gpus-per-task=1
```

#### Understanding and customizing the command
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##### ParaView server launch with `paraview-reverse-connect`

```bash
paraview-reverse-connect paraview/6.0.1:20251204 $PV_SERVER_PORT$ -n4 -pdebug --gpus-per-task=1
paraview-reverse-connect paraview/6.0.1 $PV_SERVER_PORT$ -n4 -pdebug --gpus-per-task=1
```

The second part uses `paraview-reverse-connect` (see [how to obtain it][ref-paraview-one-time-setup]), which runs on the Alps login node to launch a SLURM job, that will execute ParaView `pvserver` instances on compute nodes, that will (reverse) connect with your ParaView UI on your workstation.
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