[Paraview-developers] VTK and ParaView with OSMesa

[Burlen Loring]

Great! Let me know how it goes.

On 11/18/2013 1:32 PM, Aashish Chaudhary wrote:
> This is great information! I would like to give it a try and hopefully 
> can setup a dashboard as well.
>
> - Aashish
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Burlen Loring 
> <burlen.loring at gmail.com <mailto:burlen.loring at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi All,
>
>     VTK 6.1 will take full advantage of OpenGL features in OSMesa. In
>     the past this hadn't been the case, a number of key algorithms or
>     classes that algorithms depended on were explicitly disabled when
>     OSMesa was detected. I've been investigating use of the new 9.2.2
>     Mesa release in which OSMesa can take advantage of the VMWare's
>     Gallium llvmpipe back-end. The advantages of this back-end over
>     the classic OSMesa  back-end are better OpenGL extension support,
>     threading, and use of LLVM/clang for shader compilation. The
>     llvmpipe backend is quite a bit faster on shader heavy algorithms
>     and supports Surface LIC while the classic back-end does not.  In
>     the recent Mesa 9.2.2 release it finally works flawlessly with
>     pvbatch.
>
>     The Mesa 9.2.2 release configured with the Gallium llvmpipe OSMesa
>     state tracker should be the recommended Mesa release for
>     off-screen rendering in VTK and ParaView and I've updated the wiki
>     with build instructions and some rendering benchmarks.
>     http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/ParaView_And_Mesa_3D
>     I've left a link to the old page, if there are no objections I'd
>     like to remove it.
>
>     I've set up ParaView and VTK dashboards for the new 9.2.2 Mesa release
>     http://open.cdash.org/index.php?project=VTK&filtercount=1&showfilters=1&field1=site/string&compare1=63&value1=rocky
>     http://open.cdash.org/index.php?project=ParaView&filtercount=1&showfilters=1&field1=site/string&compare1=63&value1=rocky
>
>     If you guys see anything wrong with it , please let me know.
>
>     Thanks
>     Burlen
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> | Aashish Chaudhary
> | R&D Engineer
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