Submit the script to the queue with > sbatch run_blender2.79b Vglrun ~/blender/blender-2.79b/blender -noaudio To run Blender on a GPU node, create a run script using nedit > nedit run_blender2.79bĬopy and paste the following script, make sure to replace the # symbols in the “export DISPLAY=”login#:#”” line to match your login node and graphical session.

The current glibc version on Joule2 is 2.17 (released ). Libmvec is vector math library added in Glibc 2.22, which was released.

It fails with error while loading shared libraries: libmvec.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Note: Blender 2.80 is available in beta form, however will not run on Joule because the glibc is to old already.

> mv blender-2.79b-linux-glibc219-x86_64 blender-2.79bīlender can now be run with > vglrun blender-2.79b/blender Make a directory and extract the files > cd To install a newer version of Blender, visit the blender download page and download the latest version (2.79b). However, it can still use the CPUs to render. Unfortunately, this version can not utilize the GPUs on the gpu nodes and fails with the following error CUDA kernel compilation failed, see console for details. Installing Blenderīlender 2.76 is available as a module and can be loaded using > module load blender Click here to see how to export Paraview scenes into Blender. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline-modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation. Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite.

Blender 2.79 free download