[vtkusers] VTK on Xeon Phi

[Santiago Alonso Pérez Rubiano]

Unfortunately I don't have good news on this. I'm trying to cross-compile
libMesa with offscreen support but at some point the compilation fails
because of some unsupported assembler instructions on Xeon Phi's intel
compiler. I have reported this on Intel forum (
http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/topic/489151) and Mesa's mailing
list (
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-users/2013-November/000704.html)
and keep working on this.


On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 9:48 AM, David E DeMarle
<dave.demarle at kitware.com>wrote:

> As Berk said we haven't tried the Xeon Phi yet.
>
> VTK does work with OSMesa, See the pure offscreen rendering section of
> http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Users_Guide/Parallel_Rendering
> for CMake options to try first.
>
> To find out how to configure Mesa for the Phi first ask the Mesa mailing
> list. On the off chance they can't help, see ParaViewSuperbuild. Here we
> take Mesa 7.6.1 (old habits are hard to break) and configure it to cross
> compile on Cray's and Blue Gene's. There may be some patterns you could
> follow there that might help configure it for the Phi.
>
> Let us know how it goes. I would like to see this working.
>
>
>
>
>
> David E DeMarle
> Kitware, Inc.
> R&D Engineer
> 21 Corporate Drive
> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
> Phone: 518-881-4909
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Santiago,
>>
>> I am very glad that you are working on this. Please let us know how
>> things work out. Also, check out my recent post about support for shared
>> memory parallelism.
>>
>> Unfortunately, I don't think that anyone at Kitware has tried building
>> the whole thing on Xeon Phi so we probably won't be able to help.
>>
>> Best,
>> -berk
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Santiago Alonso Pérez Rubiano <
>> srubiano at purdue.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone tried (or succeeded at) cross-compiling VTK for Xeon Phi. Is
>>> it possible to run VTK using only OSMesa?
>>>
>>> I'm trying to compile libMesa 9.2.2 on the Xeon Phi but I'm having
>>> problems configuring the compilation. Has anyone tried something similar?
>>>
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