[Paraview] Problems HDF5_ENABLE_PARALLEL

[Tobias Brandvik]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the reply, I'll go ahead and post a bug report.

Cheers,
Tobias

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Dave Partyka <dave.partyka at kitware.com> wrote:
> Also, would you mind reporting a bug on paraview.org/Bug and also a simple
> dataset that recreates the issue? That way the issue won't be forgotten.
>
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Dave Partyka <dave.partyka at kitware.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tobias,
>> I doubt anyone has tested this as those options originate from HDF5 itself
>> and only have been available for around 2 months. I would suspect that work
>> needs to be done in Xdmf to support parallel HDF5. You can specify your own
>> HDF5 by enabaling PARAVIEW_USE_SYSTEM_HDF5, reconfiguring and then setting
>> the necessary HDF5 library/header variables in ccmake/cmake-gui. The version
>> included in ParaView is the 1.8.5 release available on the HDF5 groups
>> website.
>> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Tobias Brandvik <tbrandvik at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> When turning on HDF5_ENABLE_PARALLEL, the XDMF reader hangs. Without
>>> it, everything works fine (even when running the server in parallel).
>>> Parallel HDF5 works fine on the system in other applications (the file
>>> I'm trying to read in was created with parallel HDF5). This is on a
>>> 64-bit Linux cluster with with a Lustre file system and a recent
>>> Paraview 3.9 from CVS, compiled with Mesa support. Is this feature
>>> supposed to work? If so, I would be grateful for any hints on what I
>>> should try. Also, I seem to remember there being an option to use a
>>> user-supplied version of HDF5 - is this still available/recommended? I
>>> couldn't find the correct CMAKE option for it.
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Tobias
>>>
>>>
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