[vtkusers] Amazon EC2 vtk spport

[Bill Lorensen]

I build and run VTK on an amazon machine using opengl. But I run  in a
window created with OpenNX. If you do this you will need to set
export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=yes

in your .bashrc file.

I run OpenNX on both my Mac and Linux systems.

Bill

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Marcus D. Hanwell <
marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:

> 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
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