[Paraview] unexpected usage of ghost sets for geometry and topology with XDMF reader

[Chris Kees]

Hi,

I'm using XDMF for storing results of parallel unstructured finite
element computations. I worked with some of the developers for the
XDMF reader on getting proper display of the overlapping (ghost)
entities a while back, but it doesn't seem like those changes were
really merged into the trunk. Paraview 3.10 still doesn't appear to
eliminate duplicate points and cells quite the way I would expect it
to. Is there anybody still working on that functionality that could
help me get some changes permanently made to paraview? I can supply
data sets of various complexity (quad,tri,hex,tet, (bi-)quadratic,
dynamic, etc) in a dropbox folder and am am willing to change the way
we're organizing the information in XDMF (though if my memory serves,
we had a patched paraview that worked fine with our current
representation).

Thanks,
Chris