[Paraview] clipped scene with GPU rendering on NVIDIA tesla C1060

[Isamu Yamashita]

Hi Pratik,

Have you tried to use pvserver with the option "--use-offscreen-rendering" ?
This solved the similar problem in my case.

I think offscreen rendering not depends on the display resolution.

Isamu

(2011?06?29? 23:42), pratik wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> This is my configuration(PV v.3.10.1):
> Server: desktop with 4 NVIDIA tesla C1060 cards; Client is a laptop.
> To make use of GPU rendering, i start an Xserver on a free display 
> like so(i cannot use the :0 display, also i cannot use $DISPLAY. if i 
> use the $DISPLAY option, the server disconnects as soon as i load data 
> from paraview):
>
> startx -- :14
>
> and my .xinitrc contains
>
> exec xdm
>
> so that xdm executes on the Xserver that is started.
> once this is done, i simply run
>
> mpirun -np 4 pvserver -display localhost:14.0
> OR
> pvserver -display localhost:14.0
>
>
> Everything goes fine, client connects to server etc. But when the 
> actual visualization is done, a strip at the top (roughly 1/3 of 
> screen) is blanked(see the attached image). A curious thing that i 
> observed was that when i change the orientation, rotate the object 
> etc, the LOD actor seems to render properly(meaning that i can see the 
> whole picture), but after i let it settle then this clipping takes 
> place. Only a few weeks back the rendering seemed to have happened 
> perfectly, so i don't know why it is suddenly behaving this way now.
>
> Thanks  in advance for the help.
>
> -pratik
>
>
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