Dear Utkarsh!
Thank you very much for your swift reply and for sending the patch to the MESA
libraries. I will apply it asap.
Also, thank you for liaising with the OpenSWR team in order to check if they
support or plan supporting OSMESA. It is of interest for us, since any gain in
reducing rendering times during post-processing of our simulations has a
substantial impact in the longer term on the number of simulations we can
perform (i.e. less time spent in post-processing means that there are more
resources left for running simulations).
Concerning the surfaceLIC, we are using it primarily on GPUs but it would have
been great to have the possibility to switch to software rendering under
ParaView 5.0.0. This was also motivated by the fact that the software has made
a good step in reducing rendering times.
To underline this, below is a summary of the rendering times in seconds for
generating 60 pressure-contours images on the same compute cluster:
Paraview 3.8.1 Paraview 4.3.1 Paraview 5.0.0-rc2
Intel MPI 5.0.1.035 Intel MPI 5.0.1.035 Intel MPI 5.0.1.035
MESA v10.5.5 MESA v10.5.5 llvm-MESA-11.0.7
Cores python v2.7.8 python v2.7.8 python v2.7.10
1 339.32 502.49 320.29
2 177.62 276.19
86.43
4 95.91 142.94 50.64
8 57.17 87.47 33.71
16 34.91 50.49 26.12
32 22.51 32.44 17.36
Basically, I can't wait to get my hands on the new ParaView release.
On my side I will continue today to perform additional tests which are part of
the way we use ParaView on our compute cluster. I'll keep you posted on that .
Talk to you soon.
Frank.
-----Original Message-----
From: Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Donnerstag, 17. Dezember 2015 19:05
To: Albina, Frank
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Paraview] Paraview v5.0.0-RC1 with OpenGL2 backend not running
using OSMESA v10.5.5
Frank,
First of all, thanks for all your exhausting testing, it's greatly appreciated!
* OSMesa and MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE
Communicating with the Mesa team, we learnt that MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE is a
bad idea since it doesnt' really create the specified OpenGL context. Thus if
anything tries to use features from the specific OpenGL version, the rendering
would crash and burn.
Working with Brian Paul from the Mesa team, Ken recently pushed a fix to VTK
(after the RC2) that uses new OSMesa API to create the correct OpenGL context.
This new OSMesa API will appear in Mesa 11.2, however.
Earlier version can be patched using the "alpha" patch that Brian provided us
(attached).
* Classic v/s llvm
Your observation is indeed correct. llvmpipe is the way to go for software
rendering. On my builds, classic mesa was painstakingly slow for rendering even
small geometries.
* Issues with LIC
Another correct observation. There are a few regressions in the new
implementation for SurfaceLIC. Realistically, we may not be able to address
these before the 5.0 release. If you're using SurfaceLIC heavily, I'd suggest
building ParaView 5.0 with the older OpenGL backend (or sticking with 4.4) for
the interim.
* OSMesa + SWR
While currently I am not sure openswr+osmesa builds are possible, I wouldn't be
surprised if that on the roadmap. I am going to try to contact the OpenSWR team
to see if they have any thoughts on that.
Utkarsh
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