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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Renato,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Many of the readers will read in parallel
files with just a serial paraview (Exodus, SAF, pvd, etc).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>If the paraview SOS reader does not support
that than please enter a feature request in the bug tracker and Sandia will pay
to have the that functionality added to the SOS reader. :)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best,</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B>
paraview-bounces+bnwylie=sandia.gov@paraview.org on behalf of Renato N.
Elias<BR><B>Sent:</B> Fri 11/4/2005 5:24 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
paraview@paraview.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Paraview] Serial posprocessing of
parallel data...<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Hi Amy,<BR><BR>I see what you mean but there isn't any other way
of reading parallel data<BR>with Paraview running in serial mode besides having
to read each piece of<BR>data separately?<BR><BR>I'm insisting on it because not
always we have a parallel rendering (or data<BR>server) system in hand to
post-process parallel data. Suppose you have ran a<BR>parallel problem in a 64
CPUs machine and this machine is dedicated only to<BR>solve simulation problems
(without any rendering support or with data access<BR>restrict), thus, you have
to copy all pieces of data to a serial graphic<BR>workstation and read each
piece of data one-by-one manually.<BR><BR>I think that visualization softwares
should work with parallel file formats,<BR>like SOS, even when running in serial
mode. It would be another feature of<BR>the parallel format and I guess it's not
hard to implement.<BR><BR>Thanks for your explanation<BR><BR>Renato N.
Elias<BR>===============================================<BR>PhD student - <A
href="http://www.nacad.ufrj.br/~rnelias">http://www.nacad.ufrj.br/~rnelias</A><BR>High
Performance Computing Center<BR>Federal University of Rio de Janeiro<BR>Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil<BR>+55(21) 2562-8080<BR><BR><BR>At 11:53 AM 11/3/2005, Renato N.
Elias wrote:<BR><BR>>Is there any way os reading Ensight server-of-server
files in serial mode?<BR><BR>No. In order to read a server-of-servers
(SOS) file, you must have<BR>at least as many processes (i.e., pvserver or
pvdataserver nodes) as<BR>files listed in the SOS file.<BR><BR>>I know that
it does not make sense since server-of-server is a file format<BR>>for
parallel purposes but I would like to know how to load
multiple<BR>datasets<BR>>(case files corresponding to several MPI partitions)
in serial mode or any<BR>>other way of doing it...<BR>><BR>>The release
note of the ParaView 2.4 tells about Ensight (and PLOT3D)<BR>>readers for
multi-block datasets and I was thinking if it could solve my<BR>>problem. Is
there an example of the XML file used to specify how Paraview<BR>>should read
the Ensight files?<BR><BR>The release note about EnSight and PLOT3D refers to
the data output<BR>from the EnSight and PLOT3D readers. Previously, these
two readers<BR>produced multiple data sets on output. Now, their output is
a single<BR>multi-block data set containing the multiple data sets
as<BR>sub-datasets. ParaView does not use an XML file in reading
EnSight<BR>files; it reads the EnSight case and SOS files directly.<BR><BR>-
Amy<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>ParaView
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