Re: [Paraview] Hardware suggestions for volume rendering

2015-03-24 Thread Aashish Chaudhary
Okay, I will talk to some folks here to see what we can do to address these issues. - Aashish On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 6:34 PM, Burlen Loring wrote: > I have the same issue with unstructured grids(not using the new opengl > work yet). A while back I wanted to volume render a large image dataset

Re: [Paraview] Hardware suggestions for volume rendering

2015-03-24 Thread Burlen Loring
I have the same issue with unstructured grids(not using the new opengl work yet). A while back I wanted to volume render a large image dataset after clipping it. The clip made it unstructured. This was on a few hundered nodes on edison, I couldn't get the unstructured volume rendering to work,

Re: [Paraview] Hardware suggestions for volume rendering

2015-03-24 Thread Armin Wehrfritz
Hey Kevin and Aashish, I found this discussion rather interesting, especially since I'm basically facing the same problem as Kevin. In almost all cases, we are dealing here with large unstructured grids (e.g. 12M cells) and the volume rendering is performance is extremely bad, not to say unu

Re: [Paraview] Hardware suggestions for volume rendering

2015-03-24 Thread Aashish Chaudhary
Hey Kevin, On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Kevin Lau wrote: > Dear Aashish, > > Thanks for your reply. > > (1) > > We tried testing it with 2 different data sets of simulation data, one > medium sized and one very large: > > Medium > Cells: 1309489 > Points: 247984 > Memory [MB]: 119.179 > Ge

Re: [Paraview] Hardware suggestions for volume rendering

2015-03-20 Thread Kevin Lau
Dear Aashish, Thanks for your reply. (1) We tried testing it with 2 different data sets of simulation data, one medium sized and one very large: Medium Cells: 1309489 Points: 247984 Memory [MB]: 119.179 Geometry [MB]: 8.201 Very Large Cells: 51937191 Points: 11019274 Memory [MB]: 4709.731 Geom

Re: [Paraview] Hardware suggestions for volume rendering

2015-03-20 Thread Aashish Chaudhary
Hey Kevin, On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Kevin Lau wrote: > Dear Aashish, > > Thanks for your reply, I've now managed to build ParaView from the Master > branch with VTK_RENDERING_BACKEND set to OpenGL2 and I have noticed a > visible difference in the rendering. > > However comparison of the

Re: [Paraview] Hardware suggestions for volume rendering

2015-03-19 Thread Kevin Lau
Dear Aashish, Thanks for your reply, I've now managed to build ParaView from the Master branch with VTK_RENDERING_BACKEND set to OpenGL2 and I have noticed a visible difference in the rendering. However comparison of the rendering performance in the interactive mode of builds with the standard Op

Re: [Paraview] Hardware suggestions for volume rendering

2015-03-03 Thread Aashish Chaudhary
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Kevin Lau wrote: > Dear Aashish, > > Thank you very much for your reply. The latest work you're doing on volume > rendering is very impressive. > Thanks. > > In order to access the latest VTK rendering in ParaView would we have to > compile both the latest VTK an

Re: [Paraview] Hardware suggestions for volume rendering

2015-03-03 Thread Kevin Lau
Dear Aashish, Thank you very much for your reply. The latest work you're doing on volume rendering is very impressive. In order to access the latest VTK rendering in ParaView would we have to compile both the latest VTK and ParaView from source? Is it possible to link ParaView to specific VTK bui

Re: [Paraview] Hardware suggestions for volume rendering

2015-02-27 Thread Aashish Chaudhary
Dear Kevin, First, I would like to mention that we have been working hard to improve rendering in VTK that includes volume rendering as well. You may want to read this source article: http://www.kitware.com/source/home/post/154. Most of the changes related to this work is now available in VTK gith

[Paraview] Hardware suggestions for volume rendering

2015-02-26 Thread Kevin Lau
Hi, I'm looking to putting together a workstation to perform realtime volume rendering of our simulation data. Are there any particular GPU features I should look for? If there are multiple GPUs will Paraview be able to take advantage of each GPU for volume rendering? Many thanks Kevin ___