[Paraview] SILO reader

pat marion pat.marion at kitware.com
Fri May 14 15:09:54 EDT 2010


Hi Greg,

You're talking about the vtkSiloReader in paraview, or the visit silo reader
via the visit bridge?

Pat

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Greg Abram <gda at tacc.utexas.edu> wrote:

> Hey, y'all -
>
> Anyone know much about the silo reader?  I have a multimesh with 256 parts,
> and I'm running in parallel - as many as 256 processes.  Unfortunately, it
> bombs out in the reader with a message that there are too many files open
> and, sure enough, each node seems to be holding every part file open, and
> silo by default hits a limit at 256 (256 parts + the multimesh file, I
> suppose).  I changed silo to allow 512 open files, and that works in my
> case, but does each process  *have* to hold all the files open?
>
> Greg
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