[Paraview-developers] [EXTERNAL] Re: NVIDIA Index plugin

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

NVIDIA IndeX™ is a commercial 3D volumetric visualization SDK. It's
another way for using GPUs for volume rendering. Other existing VTK
volume mappers like the Hardware Accelerated Volume Mapper also uses
GPUs for volume rendering, but a different implementation.

To simply use GPUs on your cluster, building with EGL indeed would be
the way to go (instead of OS Mesa, for example). Then when you use the
hardware accelerated volume mapper (which is default for image data),
you'll indeed use GPUs.

IndeX has a license fee for cluster use. I can get you in touch with
the folks I work with form NVidia if you'd like. They should be able
to elaborate more on the licensing options etc.

Utkarsh

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 9:02 PM, Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov> wrote:
> Amazing timing.  We now have an NVIDIA enabled cluster.  So, this is the only way to turn GPUs on on a cluster?  Also, there is a licensing fee?  Or, should I build using EGL, as per https://www.paraview.org/ParaView/Doc/Nightly/www/cxx-doc/Offscreen.html?
>
> Or, am I being stupid - and ParaView, built on a cluster with GPU's will just work after I compile for the cluster?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alan
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2018 6:43 PM
>> To: Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov>
>> Cc: paraview-developers at paraview.org
>> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview-developers] NVIDIA Index plugin
>>
>> He's referring to this:
>> https://blog.kitware.com/nvidia-index-plugin-in-paraview-5-5/
>>
>> Utkarsh
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 8:41 PM, Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov> wrote:
>> > Hi team,
>> >
>> > I have a user asking about an NVIDIA Index plugin for ParaView.  Any
>> > idea what he is talking about?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Alan
>> >
>> >
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