Power View stuck in loading forever in SharePoint

Hi, we have just configured a new SharePoint instance. We've installed and configured PowerPivot, SSRS SharePoint mode, Excel Services, Performance Point Services, and Silverlight. We uploaded a workbook to a BI site. The workbook contains both standard
Excel sheets and Power View sheets. The standard Excel sheets can render without any problems. But the Power View sheets are stuck in loading. All I see is this loading circle:
There's no error message, and nothing stands out in the logs. We're indeed not sure what's going on. Since there's a loading circle, we assume SSRS is working? Does anyone have ideas? Thanks.
Shining Oh Blue Star

The post on
http://blog.qumsieh.ca/2013/08/19/ssas-sharepoint-2013-we-cannot-locate-a-server-to-load-the-workbook-data-model/ helped us to solve the issue. Basically, several ports on the SSAS server need to be exposed through firewall. These include:
SSAS PowerPivot port: 2382
Standard SSAS port: 2383 (may not be definitely necessary if you only use PowerPivot)
And also, the trickest part: A dynamic port that seems to be different on each installation. In the blog author's case, it was 49165. In our case, it was 62578. To find the port, use Power Query (or another query tool) to load SharePoint's
ULS log, and filter Category to see Data Model only. You'll see the port number in one of the logs which begins with "Uncaught CLR exception crossing the Interop boundary".
I take the problem as solved. But hopefully Microsoft can give us more information on why a dynamic port needs to be opened in firewall, and why it is so difficult to track down the root cause...
Shining Oh Blue Star

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