[Paraview] Multi-block distribution in parallel

[Kent Eschenberg]

I think the vtm format does what you want. It worked well with 4,096 vti files.

Kent
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center


John Biddiscombe wrote:
> When loading a multiblock dataset with 38 datasets from a series of xml 
> vtu files, paraview splits each dataset among all processors. Since each 
> block already represents a 'piece' of the data - is there a way I can 
> tell paraview to load one or more blocks per process, rather than 
> splitting all of them. The splitting is not such a big problem, but the 
> files are huge and the IO overhead of having all blocks read by all 
> processes is making the process much too slow to use.
> 
> If not, is there an easy way of converting a vtmb file that looks like 
> this (below), into a parallel form, where the pieces are the blocks.
> 
> JB