[Paraview] using paraview with large meshes

Stephen Wornom Stephen.Wornom at inria.fr
Fri May 13 10:48:57 EDT 2005


Berk Geveci wrote:

>Hi Stephen,
>
>Try this:
>
>Load the 2M solution file, bring up the command prompt (Window ->
>Command Prompt), in the command prompt type the following:
>
>[[[$Application GetMainWindow] GetCurrentPVSource] GetDataInformation]
>GetMemorySize
>
>This should give you the memory usage for the dataset in Kbytes. This
>works in parallel also. I am guessing for datasets of that size, the
>processing is going be very slow unless you start running on a small
>cluster.
>
>-Berk
>

>[[[$Application GetMainWindow] GetCurrentPVSource] GetDataInformation]
>GetMemorySize
>Object named: vtkTemp994, could not find requested method: GetDataInformation
>or the method was called with incorrect arguments.
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>
I use v1.6 would that be the problem?
Stephen


>On 5/13/05, Stephen Wornom <Stephen.Wornom at inria.fr> wrote:
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>>I am working with 16M, 64M vertices meshes using an unstructured CFD code.
>>
>>I can view the 2M solution on my workstation 3.0 Ghs with 2.5 Gb RAM. It
>>takes about 5 minutes to load the file.
>>
>>My question: For those working with 2M > meshes, what RAMs do you use?
>>Stephen
>>
>>p.s.
>>I use the non mpi version of ParaView.
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