[Paraview-developers] VTK and ParaView with OSMesa

[David E DeMarle]

Thanks Burlen! Nice work as always.

Any thoughts on the remaining failures? I'ld like to fix or if necessary
suppress whatever remains and then promote them to the expected section of
the VTK dashboard.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909


On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit <
utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:

> Great post, Burlen.
>
> Utkarsh
>
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Burlen Loring <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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