[Paraview] Paraview Catalyst offscreen rendering

Andy Bauer andy.bauer at kitware.com
Wed Jul 26 11:37:12 EDT 2017


Hi,

It sounds like you didn't properly build with OSMesa. If you share your
CMakeCache.txt from your ParaView build I can see if I can track down the
problem.

Best,
Andy

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 11:20 AM, Lukáš Kresta <lukas.kresta at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thank you, but I have ParaView build with OSMesa without X. If I run
> program with Catalyst(genereted script from ParaView, with render views) on
> cluster with mpi, ussually one render view will show, but on anothers
> process it crash with this error: ERROR: In .../ParaView-v5.4.0/VTK/
> Rendering/OpenGL2/vtkOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, line 819
> vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x3f7cbf0): GLEW could not be initialized. I have
> the same error with pvserver with or without --use-offscreen-rendering or
> without pvserver.
>
> If i run Catalyst with script only for live visualization then the program
> go without problem but i dont get pictures which i want. Is there some
> posibility how fix the error or how to get pictures(with offscreen
> rendering)?
>
> 2017-07-14 16:24 GMT+02:00 Andy Bauer <andy.bauer at kitware.com>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> If you're not memory constrained I suggest just doing a full ParaView
>> build with OSMesa and X11 disabled. There are quite a few discussions on
>> the PV mailing list on how to do that.
>>
>> If you're memory constrained then I would suggest building with all of
>> the Catalyst editions enabled and see if that works for you.
>>
>> Best,
>> Andy
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 3:31 AM, Lukáš Kresta <lukas.kresta at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I would like to ask, which Paraview Catalyst (python) script use(with
>>> render view or live visualization). If i want save images with offscreen
>>> rendering on HPC.  On cluster is no gpu. And how to properly use it?
>>>
>>> Thank you for your help.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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