[Paraview] Xdmf roadmap

[Berk Geveci]

This is mainly a versioning issue. The new Xdmf format (Xdmf 2) is not
backwards compatible. We will be focusing on this in the near future.
We should probably provide a converter.

-berk

On 9/13/07, Eric Monson <emonson at phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Regarding Xdmf -- while the 2.9.9 and 3.0.2 snapshot binaries (mac
> intel) can read Xdmf, the 3.1.0 can not as far as I can see.
>
> Is there a reason Xdmf (reading) support it was turned off in 3.1.0,
> and if not, can someone at least help point me to how to turn it back
> on if I build from source? (I don't see any obvious options when I
> run ccmake)
>
> Thanks,
> -Eric Monson
>
>
> On Aug 21, 2007, at 7:50 AM, Berk Geveci wrote:
>
> > 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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