[Paraview] Hardware suggestions for volume rendering

[Aashish Chaudhary]

Dear Kevin,

First, I would like to mention that we have been working hard to improve
rendering in VTK that includes volume rendering as well. You may want to
read this source article: http://www.kitware.com/source/home/post/154. Most
of the changes related to this work is now available in VTK github
repository in master branch. If you are targetting current VTK, I would
suggest that any card that can support OpenGL2.1 or higher would be great.
The higher the GPU memory the better. While these newer card will work with
the previous version of volume rendering, it may not scale very well (in
our testing that's what we have observed). Current the default in ParaView
is OpenGL Volume Rendering but that is going to change sometime soon and
once that happens you will have OpenGL2 backend for everything.

Hope this helps.
- Aashish



On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Kevin Lau <kevin.d.lau at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm looking to putting together a workstation to perform realtime volume
> rendering of our simulation data.
>
> Are there any particular GPU features I should look for?
>
> If there are multiple GPUs will Paraview be able to take advantage of each
> GPU for volume rendering?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Kevin
>
>
>
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