[Paraview] Paraview on SGI Altix 4000

[Moreland, Kenneth]

It sounds like you are having a framebuffer readback issue.  Can you check
to see if your OpenGL drivers are up to date?

-Ken


On 9/22/08 11:39 AM, "Biao She" <shebiao at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for you reply, Ken.
> In stead of black square, the result is even more strange if I run
> without the --use-offscreen-rendering flag. It is basically a huge
> collection of random dots, and if I move the camera, the glxgears even
> appears in the display.
>
> Aaron
>
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Moreland, Kenneth <kmorel at sandia.gov> wrote:
>> It sounds like it could be a rendering problem.  Perhaps the offscreen
>> rendering is misbehaving.  What happens when you run without the
>> --use-offscreen-rendering flag?
>>
>> -Ken
>>
>>
>> On 9/22/08 11:28 AM, "Biao She" <shebiao at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks.
>>> Has anyone ever installed paraview on SGI Altix 4000? If I compiled
>>> paraview with "PARAVIEW_USE_MPI" option setting to ON, the paraview
>>> didn't work properly. For example, I first started the MPI version
>>> pvserver on the supercomputer by issuing "DISPLAY=:0 mpirun -np 4
>>> ./pvserver --use-offscreen-rendering",  then I launched paraview
>>> locally and connected it to the pvserver on the supercomputer.
>>> Normally, at the center of paraview display area, there should have
>>> three reference lines of a coordinate system. However, my paraview
>>> just displayed a black square.
>>> I have also tried the non-MPI version and the precompiled version of
>>> Paraview. They worked fine. I don't know if the problem is MPI
>>> implementation problem. I have heard that SGI's MPI implementation is
>>> kind of different. However, other programs, such as glxgears, worked
>>> fine by using the SGI implementation. Also, if I use the x forwarding
>>> to start the MPI version of pvserver, the rendering result is also
>>> correct. So, I am not quite convinced that the problem is MPI problem
>>> and I am quiet confused.
>>> I will highly appreciate any of your comments.
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Aaron
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>>
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   ****      Kenneth Moreland
    ***      Sandia National Laboratories
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*** *** ***  email: kmorel at sandia.gov
**  ***  **  phone: (505) 844-8919
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