<div dir="ltr">OpenGL is loaded at runtime so what matters is the mostly the system it is running on as opposed to the system it was compiled on (except OSMesa see below).<div><br></div><div>To make it a bit more complicated, if you use GLXforwarding or a similar OpenGL forwarding mechanism then what matters is some combination of the forwarding library on the system PV is running on and the OpenGL hardware of the system you are *displaying* on. This bites people when PV runs fine locally on a system but when they forward their display/remote desktop to another system it fails.<div><br></div><div>Finally when building with OSMesa, as long as the runtime system picks up the OSMesa libs you built, then it really is the version of OSMesa you compiled against that matters.</div><div><br></div><div>On linux I think a ldd on the PV executable can show which library is being picked up. (should have ogl or opengl, nvidia, mesa etc in the path) but a linux person might know better. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 7:14 PM, Scott, W Alan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wascott@sandia.gov" target="_blank">wascott@sandia.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">With a remote server running on a cluster, what does the Help/ About/ Connection Information/ OpenGL Version string mean? Where is this found? Isn’t this the version of OpenGL compiled into the pvserver? What is the name of this library,
and any idea how I can find what is being used?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have a situation where my builds show OpenGL version 3.3 (and can open a specific dataset), and a user’s shows 2.1 (and he cannot open a specific dataset).<u></u><u></u></p>
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