[Paraview] Paraview performance

[Alberto Fernandez]

I have tried to open the results with 4.5 million cells and it is taking 
hours. So far, the computer has been trying to open the data file for 2 
hours. Is there a way of doing this on a single computer? I assumed that 
paraview was indicated for large dataset, is this possible only on a 
parallel configuration?

Alberto Fernandez escribió:
> I have a question regarding paraview performance. I'm using paraview 
> to visualize CFD results. The results are written in ensight format as 
> ascii. I have been doing some work on a model with a unstructured mesh 
> of about 1.5 million cells. Using simply a clip filter cutting with a 
> scalar takes a lot of time. It is not big for just a frame but we are 
> calculating 20 time steps. If we want to calculate that cliping (to 
> find a free surface) to create an animation it takes about 15 or 20 
> minutes. The machine is an AMD athlon with  4 GB.
> We are interested in processing a calculation with around 5 million 
> cells. We have tried and it takes hours.
> Is there a way of improving this performance through some settings or 
> similar?
> Does having the results written in ascii (it takes quite some room) 
> have some effect on performance?
>

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Alberto Fernández
alberto at cognitdesign.com

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