[vizstack-users] Anybody using ParaView with VizStack ?

[Kumar, S. <shr...@hp...>]

A quick query : is there anybody out there using ParaView with VizStack ?

I am making a few changes to that script which are small in terms of code change, but bigger in terms of ease of use.

The parallel rendering section of the ParaView wiki (http://paraview.org/Wiki/Setting_up_a_ParaView_Server) recommends using shared GPUs for parallel rendering tasks. Currently, viz-paraview allocates only exclusive GPUs (i.e. no sharing). My modification would change the situation, as below:

  - viz-paraview would allocate shared GPUs by default. Thus, hardware utilization would be better. Offscreen rendering would be used for this. 
  - a "-x" option would be available to turn off GPU sharing
  - viz-paraview would be able to use additional GPUs to drive tiled displays (currently, it allows doing sort-first OR sort-last, but not both together)

If you have any feedback on these changes, please let me know.

With these changes, viz-paraview would cater to many use cases. It will make VizStack a very good option for ParaView users.

There have been a few bugfixes to VizStack post release 1.1-2. I'm planning to include these changes and put out another release, perhaps next week. At that time, I am also planning to announce VizStack on the ParaView mailing list.

Regards
-- Shree