[Paraview] Picking laptop hardware for significant use with VTK and ParaView

[Weirs, V Gregory]

I don't do much volume rendering, if that's what you mean, but it seems to work just fine.

As far as Paraview using the hardware correctly, I have no idea. I don't have any evidence that it isn't. I guess if it didn't, it might just be slow, but I don't have a sense of how fast volume rendering should be.

Greg


On 4/17/08 2:33 PM, "Dan Goldstein" <dan at cora.nwra.com> wrote:

Thanks for the info Greg. Have you tried volume visualization in
Paraview? Does it seem to use the hardware correctly?

Thanks

Dan

Weirs, V Gregory wrote:
>
> I have a MacBook Pro 15", about a year and a half old, running Tiger. No
> special drivers to install or anything like that. Output to second
> display works out of the box, whether a projector or monitor. It's fabulous.
>
> The Mac build of Paraview works fine, I sometimes build from the cvs
> trunk and don't have any Mac-specific problems. The Mac install is
> problematic so I just run out of the build directory; but I know a lot
> of effort is going into that and I expect it will all be fixed it in 3.4
> or soon after.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On 4/17/08 10:01 AM, "Dan Goldstein" <dan at cora.nwra.com> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>        Can I get some quick feedback on how ParaView and VTK is running
>     on the MacBook Pro laptops? Is opengl hardware acceleration with the
>     Nvidia  GPU and current Apple drivers all working? I am getting ready to
>     buy one and I just want to make sure, since one of my primary uses will
>     be ParaView visualization of CFD results.
>     ParaView never did correctly use the hardware in my last trusty laptop
>     (Dell M50) ,although it does have a good Nvidia chip set.  (Not
>     complaining, I just want to make sure I get a working hardware/driver
>     combo this time..)
>
>        Thanks for any feedback.
>
>     Dan Goldstein
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V. Gregory Weirs
Sandia National Laboratories                vgweirs at sandia.gov
P.O.Box 5800, MS 0378                        phone: 505 845 2032
Albuquerque, NM 87185-0378              fax: 505 284 0154
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