[Paraview] Stream Tracer Scaling

[Andy Bauer]

The main issue is that stream tracer just doesn't scale well. It's in
essence a serial computation which is very difficult to parallelize well.


On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Amir A <amiramir12345 at outlook.com> wrote:

> Dear Paraview Community:
>
> I have a problem with performing stream tracer in parallel. It seems that
> it does not scale when done in paralell.
> Actually the time increases compared to the serial implementation.
>
> My data set is a structured adaptive mesh of a cube, which has velocity
> components (u,v,w) at each vertex. I want to create streamlines with Stream
> Tracer with a spherical point source.
> I have tried to first apply the D3 filter but that does not help either.
> Any ideas is highly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> P.S: I am doing parallel visualization correctly, meaning that other
> filters scale in parallel. The only problem is StreamTracer.
>
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