Thanks for the input Mathieu.
Why not 5.11.0 or 5.10.1
No good reason. I already had 5.10.0 on my local machine, and I was told I should use the same version on the server. I have now tried using 5.11.0, but encounter the same issue.
make sure to use the right executable by using path
Yes, I am using specifying the path to the executables correctly. I was just being concise in my question!
What is your system mpi ?
Our HPC has a bunch of different openmpi versions that I can load. I have tried with our system default (openmpi 4.0.0) and the newest version we have installed (openmpi 4.1.1), with and without the “–system-mpi” flag. Neither of these work. In both cases, I get an “Address already in use error” for every process, which has been documented elsewhere on this forum and is what led me to try downloading precompiled binaries (e.g. ParaView Parallel pvserver (MPI) - Problems when running on a Cluster).
I get the same errors when I try to use some preinstalled versions of paraview on our cluster. I’m not sure if these were compiled on the system, but I think they might be because I was not able to use remote (mesa) rendering with them (whereas I am able to with the downloaded binaries).