[Tobi]

Hi all,

i want to set up a PV-Server on my cluster but I have a doubt about the following sentence:

use the OSMesa solution if and only if your server hardware does not have rendering hardware

My cluster has an onboard grafic card but that is not build for rendering:

Matrox G200 16MB DDR2

I have to laugh about DDR2 and 16MB. So I think I can set up my pv server without doubts or what do you think?

Regards tobi

[wyldckat]

Hi Tobi,

Originally Posted by Tobi

So I think I can set up my pv server without doubts or what do you think?

Unless you're planning on getting a considerably powerful graphics card for the master node in the cluster, it does look like you don't have any other choice than to build with OSMesa support.

Best regards,
Bruno

[Tobi]

Hi Bruno,

thanks for your replay.
I installed OSMesa from deb files and compiled ccmake. At the moment I am compiling paraview (hope with the correct settings). How can I check if everything is working well after compiling?

[wyldckat]

Originally Posted by Tobi

How can I check if everything is working well after compiling?

I think that pvserver will complain if you try to use the "--use-offscreen-rendering" argument and if the OSMesa feature is not working as intended.

[Tobi]

Hi Bruno,

thanks for your replay but first I have to set up my paraview correct. There were one error while compiling pv. Have to investigate more time to that. Maybe I will compile OSMesa too but there are some packages missing hence I installed them. Well I will keep you posted.