[Paraview] Visualize 3Gb CFX-data on singel PC with ParaView

[David E DeMarle]

Likely possible on a good desktop.

The number of cores is pretty much immaterial. Most of VTK and ParaView
only use 1.
The RAM is very important. Make sure that you have a 64bit build of
ParaView of course or you won't be able to access all of the RAM.
You didn't specify it, so the graphics card is the potential bottleneck,
make sure you have something recent or rendering may bog down.

Also, be wary of doing things with ParaView that multiply the effective
size of the data. The ParaView book and tutorial cover these best practices
pretty well. http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/UsersGuide/Recommendations

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909


On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 6:11 AM, Петров Александр <gmdidro at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I trying to understand is it reasonable to use ParaView in desktop mode
> (without distributed server) to visualize CFX-data (converted to EnSight
> format) with size ~3Gb?
>
> How to solve such task if I need to visualize such large data array?
> Should I point CFD-people to simplify their model for visualization purpose
> or should I use distributed server ParaView mode? Or might be it is not a
> problem to visualize such large data array with ParaView on single PC (8
> cores, 30Gb RAM).
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Alexander Petrov
>
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