[vtkusers] VTK on Xeon Phi

[Santiago Alonso Pérez Rubiano]

Actually I've been working on compiling Mesa 7.5.1 but yet I have the same
problems.


On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 6:50 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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