Context Capture - Slow process time and production of one tile failed

Offline Sean Keene Fri, Jun 16 2017 11:13 AM

I am running a Production that has 127 tiles and one of the tiles has failed.The aerotraingulation completed on 3524 photos with 70.8 gigapixels. The machine I am running the production on is a Azure VM withWindows Server 2016, Intel Xeon 24 cores, 224 GB RAM, 4 Nvidia M60 graphics with 8 GB/card. I have optimized the VM to use the M60card as the main GPU as well as turned up the 3D settings on the card for maximum performance. I have attached the log file of the failed tile.

I started the production 2 days ago and it is on tile 21 of 127.127Tiles-20GBRAM - Tile_+005_+009.log

0 Offline Sean Keene Mon, Jun 19 2017 10:02 AM
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0 Offline James Clarke Wed, Jun 21 2017 1:30 PM

Unfortunately I can't offer suggestions on your question, but wondered if i could pose a question to you re: getting context capture running in Azure VMs. I'm stuck where ContextCapture doesn't detect the video card properly, just claims the GPU isn't supported (no vertex buffers, etc available). Wondering what you did to get things running properly. I installed the proper NVIDIA drivers and disabled the Microsoft display adapter so the Tesla K80 is the only one displaying in Device Manager now. I started out initially on the M60 setup but when that wasnt working had swapped over to the K80 to see if there was any difference.
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0 Offline Sean Keene Wed, Jun 21 2017 11:35 PM in reply to James Clarke
James, unfortunately I do not have good news for you. We started with the Tesla K80 configuration and could never get that to work properly with CC. We started up a new machine using the M60 configuration and continued with that because it worked. One thing that you have to make sure is to disable the Microsoft dispaly adapter as well as the Monitor that is using the Microsoft Display Adapter. If you do not disable the Monitor CC will never recognize the Nvidia card.
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0 Offline James Clarke Thu, Jun 22 2017 5:12 PM in reply to Sean Keene

Actually that was all very good news. Thanks to your post I have us up and running now on the M60 configuration. Previously I had been disabling the Microsoft display adapter, had no idea about the monitor issue. Once I swapped back to M60 and completely uninstalled those (instead of disabling) CC fired right up no complaints. Appreciate your assistance!
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0 Offline Gregory Moreno Tue, Jul 11 2017 8:32 AM

127 tiles seems like a hell of a lot. I'm pretty sure that is a memory restriction though. Are you actually getting your 224 GB RAM? Can you run a lower GB benchmark against the aerotriangulation time? How has the project turn out?
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