[Paraview] loading vtu files crashes paraview in parallel

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

For *.vtu files, ParaView reads the data on the 0th node and then
partitions and redistributes it to all ranks.

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Mohammad Mirzadeh <mirzadeh at gmail.com> wrote:
> just asking this question in a different way. What happens if I load a vtu
> file in parallel? Can paraview handle that automatically (i.e. partitioning
> it and sending it to different processors) or is every processor going to
> load the same exact file?
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Mohammad Mirzadeh <mirzadeh at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a modest size problem, 100M unstructured, and I can easily load
>> into paraview with 64 processors / 128G ram when I load the pvtu file.
>>
>> I can also work on the file, meaning creating contours, etc. However, when
>> I load all vtu files separately and create contours on each file separately
>> it seems that PV runs out of memory and my process gets terminated.
>>
>> Is this normal?
>>
>
>
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