[Paraview] Building paraview with piston -- enabling GPGPU support

[Robert Maynard]

Hi,

The VTK-m integration into ParaView and VTK is currently being developed.

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Baker D.J. <D.J.Baker at soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hello David,
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> Thank you for this advice. I’m currently looking in to the vtk-m project,
> and I’ll see how I get on. Could you please tell me if it’s possible to
> integrate vtk-m and paraview in any way? For example using a plugin.
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> Best regards,
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> David.
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> *From:* David E DeMarle [mailto:dave.demarle at kitware.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, December 18, 2015 4:00 PM
> *To:* Baker D.J. <D.J.Baker at soton.ac.uk>
> *Cc:* paraview at paraview.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Paraview] Building paraview with piston -- enabling GPGPU
> support
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> What you are seeing is that piston has evolved since the we wrote the vtk
> module that interfaces to it. I think the same is true of thrust evolving
> since piston 0.4. So, in order to make it work without modifying the code,
> you will need to use older versions.
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> Instead of doing that, I recommend you look into vtk-m project instead.
> This is the successor to the since deprecated PISTON and DAX projects.
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> David E DeMarle
> Kitware, Inc.
> R&D Engineer
> 21 Corporate Drive
> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
> Phone: 518-881-4909
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> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 5:54 AM, Baker D.J. <D.J.Baker at soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I am trying to integrate GPGPU support in paraview v4.4.0. With that in
> mind I have enabled “PARAVIEW_USE_PISTON” in the cmake configurator, and
> downloaded the Piston source code. The software that I’m using is…
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> Paraview 4.4.0
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> Piston 0.4
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> Cuda toolkit 7.5.18
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> The make fails when compiling vtkPistonConverters.cu, and I cannot make
> any progress to resolve my issues. In addition to a load of warnings I see
> the following types of errors:
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> piston/choose_container.h(42): error: namespace "thrust::detail" has no
> member "default_device_space_tag"
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> VTK/Accelerators/Piston/vtkPistonConverters.cu(93): error: expected a type
> specifier (a couple)
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> VTK/Accelerators/Piston/vtkPistonConverters.cu(36): error: too few
> arguments for class template "piston::vtk_image3d" (several times)
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> I’m not a C/C++ programmer and so this is a show stopper for me. I’ve
> tried downloading the current VTK source, however that does not help. Could
> anyone please advise on the source of these errors or alternatively advise
> which combination of paraview/piston/cuda give a working solution.
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> Best regards,
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> David.
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