[vtkusers] Amazon EC2 vtk spport

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:57 PM, hu ning <nickhuning at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I wonder if anyone here can give me some advices.
>
> We have some vtk 3D rendering in our current application. Now we are moving
> the app to the Amazon EC2, and the rendering job will be run at the Cloud
> server. The common cloud instance won't have a graphic card (unless we go
> for a power GPU instance, with CUDA support)
>
> Has anyone ever tried run vtk app in the Amazon EC2 environment? Is it
> possible?
>
You should be able to run VTK applications with OSMesa rendering where
Mesa is used to do the rendering using software rendering. We have run
VTK applications in lots of environments without GPUs, I have not
personally tried on EC2 but have run other applications on there in
some tests without issues.

Marcus