[Paraview] Multi-block distribution in parallel

[John Doe]

Is there a description of the vtm format anywhere?  I am relying on
one generated by paraview as my template.  It would be really, really,
nice to know what the fields mean.

Thanks,

Juan

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Kent Eschenberg <eschenbe at psc.edu> wrote:
> 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
>
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