xmparvox

Xmparvox is the graphical interface of ParVox. It runs on the local workstation and connects to netparvox running on a remote parallel machine. Xmparvox requires a Unix workstation with X11 capabilities. All communications between xmparvox and netparvox are accomplished via TCP ports.

-server hostname

When specified, this option will cause xmparvox to connect to netparvox running on hostname. If this option is not specified, then xmparvox will act as a server and wait for an incoming connection by netparvox.

-port N

When specified, this option sets the port number to use for the connection to netparvox. If this is set, then netparvox should also set this parameter. The default port is 6543.

-diskbuf buffer_file

This option specifies a disk buffer for local buffering of animation image frames. Normally animation image frames are buffered to xmparvox's local machine's memory. For large images and/or frame counts, however, this can lead to memory exhaustion. This option will allow buffering to disk. On SGI Irix machines, this option will attempt to use Direct I/O for faster disk access.

Xmparvox and netparvox must be started in the proper order. The first process to start should not use the -server hostname option. The second process must then use the -server hostname to connect to the first process.

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