On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Kevin Lau <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Aashish, > > Thank you very much for your reply. The latest work you're doing on volume > rendering is very impressive. > Thanks. > > In order to access the latest VTK rendering in ParaView would we have to > compile both the latest VTK and ParaView from source? Is it possible to > link ParaView to specific VTK builds? > Latest ParaView from source should be fine. Just make sure that you select VTK_RENDERING_BACKEND to OpenGL2 > > Also do you know if it is preferential to have a single GPU (i.e. a > workstation graphics card) or multiple GPU (i.e. gaming graphics card) when > using ParaView? > If I remember correctly, we don't explicitly assign tasks to GPU in ParaView if running a single process. You can find more information here: http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Setting_up_a_ParaView_Server#Multiple_GPUs_Per_Node Hope it helps. > > Many thanks, > > Kevin > > > On 27 February 2015 at 08:15, Aashish Chaudhary < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear Kevin, >> >> First, I would like to mention that we have been working hard to improve >> rendering in VTK that includes volume rendering as well. You may want to >> read this source article: http://www.kitware.com/source/home/post/154. >> Most of the changes related to this work is now available in VTK github >> repository in master branch. If you are targetting current VTK, I would >> suggest that any card that can support OpenGL2.1 or higher would be great. >> The higher the GPU memory the better. While these newer card will work with >> the previous version of volume rendering, it may not scale very well (in >> our testing that's what we have observed). Current the default in ParaView >> is OpenGL Volume Rendering but that is going to change sometime soon and >> once that happens you will have OpenGL2 backend for everything. >> >> Hope this helps. >> - Aashish >> >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Kevin Lau <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm looking to putting together a workstation to perform realtime volume >>> rendering of our simulation data. >>> >>> Are there any particular GPU features I should look for? >>> >>> If there are multiple GPUs will Paraview be able to take advantage of >>> each GPU for volume rendering? >>> >>> Many thanks >>> >>> Kevin >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Powered by www.kitware.com >>> >>> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at >>> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html >>> >>> Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: >>> http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView >>> >>> Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView >>> >>> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: >>> http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> >> *| Aashish Chaudhary | Technical Leader | Kitware Inc. >> * >> *| http://www.kitware.com/company/team/chaudhary.html >> <http://www.kitware.com/company/team/chaudhary.html>* >> > > -- *| Aashish Chaudhary | Technical Leader | Kitware Inc. * *| http://www.kitware.com/company/team/chaudhary.html <http://www.kitware.com/company/team/chaudhary.html>*
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