Re: [VirtualGL-Users] Announcing VizStack

[DRC <dr...@vi...>]

Cool!  I'll add this to my things-to-do list.  Is HP officially
supporting this?

On 5/19/10 11:18 PM, Kumar, Shree wrote:
> 
> 
> I am pleased to announce that a new release of VizStack (http://vizstack.sourceforge.net/) 
> is now available. VizStack can be installed on GPU clusters running Linux. Each node can 
> have 1 or more GPUs; only nVidia GPUs work are supported for now.
> 
> This has some features that I believe will be useful to users on this list; I've seen
> email on this list that asks about setup needed for VirtualGL. VizStack can 
> help in the following ways:
> 
>   1. You can start TurboVNC/VirtualGL sessions on a GPU cluster using either
>       - a GUI that is installed on your desktop
>       - a command line script (viz-tvnc)
> 
>     Inside the TurboVNC session, you just use "vglrun" to run your apps; 
>     everything else is setup for you automatically. VizStack takes care of
>     allocating GPUs to users, configuring and starting X servers, etc.
> 
>   2. Each GPU can be shared with 2 or more users. The number of users a GPU
>      can be shared with is configurable per GPU. In this case, the "vglrun"
>      for users sharing a GPU is redirected to the X server configured with
>      the shared GPU. 
> 
>   3. Another script (viz-vgl) is available. This uses the VirtualGL Image
>      Transport. Basically, you run the VirtualGL client on your desktop, SSH
>      to the cluster, run viz-vgl <app>, and the application pops up on your
>      desktop. Stereo is supported with viz-vgl, but GPUs cannot be shared
>      currently in this scenario.
> 
> Also,
> 
>   4. If you are a ParaView user OR Avizo user, you can run these applications
>      either directly (from the command line), or from the TurboVNC/VirtualGL 
>      session.
> 
> VizStack works on a single node too, not just a cluster. It should install on
> all Linux distributions; we provide packages for 64 bit RPMs for RHEL5, 
> SLES11/10, and Ubuntu 9.10. As an example use case, if you have a two GPU 
> machine, you could quickly use VizStack to allow 2/4/more remote users using
> TurboVNC/VirtualGL.
> 
> NOTE: If you use VizStack, you may notice that it starts X servers dynamically,
> and not all of them on :0 :-)
> 
> If you run into issues, please feel free to contact me/send email to the VizStack 
> user's mailing list(subscription needed).
> 
> I am also looking forward to any feedback you may have w.r.t how we setup things.
> 
> Cheers
> -- Shree
> 
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