[Paraview-developers] Catalyst: Saving memory with no-copy adapters

[Will Schroeder]

This is absolutely great, I can't believe after 20 years VTK is still alive
and better yet, thriving!


On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:53 AM, David Lonie <david.lonie at kitware.com>wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> ParaView is being used for live analysis and visualization of running
> simulations though the Catalyst coprocessing library, and until now it was
> necessary to copy the simulation dataset into a VTK container so that it
> could be used in a pipeline. This essentially doubled the memory
> requirements for the dataset when coprocessing is used.
>
> New work in VTK allows external memory to be used with a VTK dataset
> interface. The new classes and methods that make this possible are
> described on the Kitware blog:
>
> http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/577
>
> and detailed on the VTK wiki:
>
> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/InSituDataStructures
>
> Happy computing!
> Dave
>
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