View source for ParaView/ParaView Readers and Parallel Data Distribution

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| File Extension 
| Format Description
| Reader
| Parallelism
| Time
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| *.vtk
| Legacy VTK Files
| [http://paraview.org/OnlineHelpCurrent/LegacyVTKFileReader.html Legacy VTK reader]
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This file format has no support for saving parallel distribution of data. Hence ParaView does the following:

'''Structured Data'''
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For structured data, this reader reads the entire file on all processes and then '''crops''' the structured extents on each process so that for each process, the filters downstream process a block of  the structured data alone.

'''Unstructured Data'''
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The root node reads the entire file and then the data is distributed  to all processes (using MPI) after an internal partitioning algorithm (vtkTransmitUnstructuredGridPiece or vtkTransmitPolyDataPiece).

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Time supported only as a file series.
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