[vtkusers] How to enable the GPU for VTK application?

[Cory Quammen]

Like Dan said, your graphics driver will (likely) decide to render on
your GPU. You should not need to recompile VTK.

HTH,
Cory

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 6:57 AM, Dan Lipsa <dan.lipsa at kitware.com> wrote:
> VTK algorithms run on the CPU. Rendering is done on the CPU or the graphics
> card depending on your driver.
> You may want to look a VTKM for an emerging technology for accelerating
> computation and visualization using parallel hardware on your machine (GPU
> or CPU)
>
> Hope this helps,
> Dan
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 12:54 AM, Liu_tj <tjlp at netease.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have VTK application running on CPU. Now I add GPU to my computer, how
>> can I enable the GPU for my VTK application? Should I need to rebuild the
>> VTK or any other steps?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Liu Peng
>>
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