[Paraview] to be sure about used hardware ...

[Armin Wehrfritz]

Can you post the output of the following commands:
1) paraview --version
2) glxinfo | grep OpenGL

Concerning different dataset types and volume rendering:
Are you sure that your dataset is recognized by ParaView as a structured 
dataset? For instance, some simulation software packages produce always 
unstructured dataset (e.g. OpenFOAM), even if you setup a completely 
uniform grid.
Also some filter in ParaView produce unstructured grids (e.g. threshold 
filter) no matter what the input type is.

The grid type is easy to check from the Information panel in ParaView.

-Armin



On 05/12/2015 05:24 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
> That's weird. What version of ParaView are you using on your Debian 8?
>
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 6:49 AM, Ufuk Utku Turuncoglu (BE)
> <u.utku.turuncoglu at be.itu.edu.tr> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I checked "Volume Rendering Mode" but i could not see it in my case. It is
>> exist in my local laptop (Mac OS) but it is not in ParaView installed under
>> Debian 8.0. I think that after selecting representation type to Volume, it
>> must show up in the Properties menu. Right?
>>
>> --ufuk
>>
>>
>> On 11/05/15 17:47, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Is out of box ParaView binary
>>>> could use full capability of hardware or not?
>>>
>>> ParaVIew binaries don't ship with any OpenGL implementation. It uses
>>> whatever OpenGL drivers setup on the machine it's being run. So long
>>> as your environment is setup properly, ParaView will indeed use the
>>> hardware available. However, not all rendering techniques in ParaView
>>> will use the graphics card  -- as Armin alluded to. Your dataset seems
>>> like small enough that volume rendering should be pretty
>>> instantaneous. What is the "Volume Rendering Mode" on the Properties
>>> panel set to? It should be "Smart" by default -- that will ensure that
>>> the graphics card is used, if possible.
>>>
>>> Utkarsh
>>
>>