[Paraview] Xdmf roadmap

[Berk Geveci]

It is one of the top priorities as far as the file formats go. We have
been swamped working on 3.2 features but will start working on Xdmf
again soon.

-berk

On 8/21/07, Jean Favre <jfavre at cscs.ch> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have difficulties finding information about Kitware's roadmap with
> Xdmf. There has been some recent changes. It now is back in the CVS
> version, but we hesitate to use it.
>
> We have projects currently dumping data in HDF5, and it would take minor
> changes to make our data compatible with the group/dataset structure
> implied by the Xdmf layer. But is it worth the trouble.
>
> What are goals of the Xdmf support? Deadlines?
> When will parallel-read support be implemented in ParaView3? (I have
> tried and what I see is that process 0 reads the whole mesh, while the
> others processes do nothing).
>
> There are also some issues in writing data (e.g.
> http://www.vtk.org/Bug/view.php?id=5493).
>
> In short, what can be expected in future support for Xdmf, or is it lost
> in priority among all other data formats.
>
> JeanF
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