[Paraview] Sharing GPUs Amongst Processes

[Moreland, Kenneth]

I do not know if there is any way to create an OpenGL context on a GPU without first connecting to an X server.  (I prefer to remain blissfully unaware of such details.)  Regardless, I am quite sure that VTK does not support creating such a connection (yet).

-Ken


On 2/24/10 4:11 AM, "Biddiscombe, John A." <biddisco at cscs.ch> wrote:

Question : Supposing you have no Xserver running but you wish to take advantage of hardware acceleration. Is it possible to create an offscreen buffer for each pvserver without the X server. We'd like to share one GPU between 4 cores, but without starting X.

Can either OpenGL or Mesa (but using GPU not software) be told to do this.


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