[vtkusers] VTK on Xeon Phi

[David Gobbi]

Have you tried an older version of Mesa?  For example, Mesa 7.7.1?
I've often found Mesa to be difficult to compile, but the Mesa 7
series seemed to be easier to work with than anything that came
before or after.

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Santiago Alonso Pérez Rubiano
<srubiano at purdue.edu> wrote:
> 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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