ParaView 5.9 RC2 NVIDIA Optix Pathtracer

Hi all,
ParaView 5.8 RC2 binary does not enable NVIDIA Optix on my Ubuntu 18.04. It does work with ParaView 5.8.1 binary.
It might be related to an error I see for nvidia-smi, but as I said it does work for ParaView 5.8.1 binary.
Here is the output for nvidia-smi:

[~/external/ParaView-5.8.1-MPI-Linux-Python3.7-64bit]$ nvidia-smi
/usr/bin/nvidia-modprobe: unrecognized option: “-s”

ERROR: Invalid commandline, please run /usr/bin/nvidia-modprobe --help for usage information.

/usr/bin/nvidia-modprobe: unrecognized option: “-s”

ERROR: Invalid commandline, please run /usr/bin/nvidia-modprobe --help for usage information.

Thu Dec 10 14:33:56 2020
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 450.80.02 Driver Version: 450.80.02 CUDA Version: 11.0 |
|-------------------------------±---------------------±---------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 Quadro M4000 Off | 00000000:03:00.0 On | N/A |
| 49% 47C P0 44W / 120W | 394MiB / 8104MiB | 2% Default |
| | | N/A |
±------------------------------±---------------------±---------------------+

±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 3437 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 123MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 3577 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 116MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 5316 C /usr/NX/bin/nxnode.bin 85MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 13881 G …AAAAAAAA== --shared-files 59MiB |
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
[~/external/ParaView-5.8.1-MPI-Linux-Python3.7-64bit]$

Hi Dan,

Could you make this an issue on the issue tracker? Otherwise I’m afraid we might lose track of it.

Thanks,
Cory

Hi Cory,

Here you are:
https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues/20384

Thanks!