[Paraview] How to load different data files for multiple pvservers

Mathieu Westphal mathieu.westphal at kitware.com
Tue Jan 10 07:44:41 EST 2017


Hi

It is quite simple.
First convert your file to modern file type, eg .vtu , .vtp or .vti
Then manually create a .pvtu/p/i with the correct syntax.

Take a look at the attached file file.pvtp

Regards

Mathieu Westphal

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 12:41 PM, 张驭洲 <yzhzhang at ipe.ac.cn> wrote:

>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm using ParaView for parallel visualization. My dataset is polydata, it
> is not "parallel aware". However, using the D3 filter, as the ParaView
> User's Guide says, is too expensive, which slow down the whole process
> significantly. As my data is  generated in parallel, I want to assign these
> data files to  multiple pvservers. For example, I have a dataset contains
> four files: file0.vtk, file1.vtk, file2.vtk and file3.vtk. Note that they
> are not temporal file series, but each represent a different area of the
> simulation domain. And, I start four pvservers by mpirun -np 4 ./pvserver.
> I can connect to the pvserver using paraview GUI on my PC, but I don't how
> to distribute the four files to each pvserver. I tried to select the four
> files using the Ctrl key and hit Apply, but it seems that they are all
> assigned to the process 0. Is there any way I can distribute the data files
> to each pvserver using the paraview GUI?
>
> Thanks a lot!
> -Zhang
>
>
>
>
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