[Paraview] how to differentiate hardware rendering and software rendering?

John Patchett patchett at lanl.gov
Thu Sep 10 09:55:16 EDT 2009


Unless it has changed recently, by default, you should be able to plug  
in a display and see a render window rendering 1/4 ish of the image  
while doing parallel rendering.
--John.

On Sep 10, 2009, at 3:54 AM, chew ping wrote:

>
> Dear All,
>
> i am doing parallel rendering using 4 machines. they all have a  
> quite high end graphics hardware, however their Paraview is also  
> configured with OSMesa enabled. During rendering, how do i know if  
> they are using software rendering instead of hardware rendering?  
> (since i have a quite high end graphics hardware, i would like to  
> make good use of it). If i disabled OSMesa in ccmake, would it means  
> that OSMesa is not in-use?
>
> Any help / response is highly appreciated!
>
> Regards,
> chewping
>
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