[Paraview] [EXTERNAL] Re: writing block data in parallel for vtk readers

Thu Sep 11 14:34:29 EDT 2014

Alan, how do you hard code a newer version?  
I prefer not to turn off the web stuff

On Sep 11, 2014, at 11:15 AM, Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov> wrote:

> What version of Python is in your path for the builds?  Our cluster builds are so amazingly old that I build and hard code a newer version of Python.
> 
> Alan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ParaView [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org] On Behalf Of Cook, Rich
> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2014 12:09 PM
> To: Utkarsh Ayachit
> Cc: paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview] writing block data in parallel for vtk readers
> 
> What’s strange about that line is that in our python on our clusters, that line compiles just fine.  So perhaps there is a bug in whatever is compiling testing.py?
> 
> On Sep 11, 2014, at 11:04 AM, Cook, Rich <cook47 at llnl.gov> wrote:
> 
>> Cannot build 4.2-RC1.  I get this error.  I’ve reported it before, but now it halts the build, so it needs to get fixed and I don’t know the answer:
>> 
>> Compiling /usr/local/tools/paraview-opengl-4.2.0/src/ParaView-v4.2.0-Build/lib/site-packages/vtk/web/testing.py ...
>> SyntaxError: ('invalid syntax',
>> ('/usr/local/tools/paraview-opengl-4.2.0/src/ParaView-v4.2.0-Build/lib
>> /site-packages/vtk/web/testing.py', 76, 47, 'TestModuleBrowsers =
>> type("Enum", (), {k: i for i, k in
>> enumerate(test_module_browsers)})\n'))
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sep 10, 2014, at 10:04 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Rich,
>>> 
>>> FYI, the VisIt bridge was updated to VisIt 2.7.0 soon after 4.1. You
>>> can try 4.2-RC1 to see if this was indeed a VisIt bridge being old
>>> issue.
>>> 
>>> Utkarsh
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 8:19 PM, Cook, Rich <cook47 at llnl.gov> wrote:
>>>> The code in VisIt is up to date; it’s just Paraview that seems
>>>> behind the times.  I am not able to completely convince myself of
>>>> why but I suspect that’s the problem.  The actual error shows up as some sort of VTK error.
>>>> — Rich
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> ERROR: In
>>>> /usr/local/tools/paraview-opengl-4.1.0/src/ParaView-v4.1.0/VTK/Commo
>>>> n/ExecutionModel/vtkExecutive.cxx,
>>>> line 754
>>>> vtkPVCompositeDataPipeline (0x252ff00): Algorithm
>>>> vtkVisItMirandaReader(0x25342b0) returned failure for request:
>>>> vtkInformation (0x2521130)
>>>> Debug: Off
>>>> Modified Time: 119319
>>>> Reference Count: 1
>>>> Registered Events: (none)
>>>> Request: REQUEST_DATA_OBJECT
>>>> ALGORITHM_AFTER_FORWARD: 1
>>>> FORWARD_DIRECTION: 0
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> ERROR: In
>>>> /usr/local/tools/paraview-opengl-4.1.0/src/ParaView-v4.1.0/VTK/Commo
>>>> n/ExecutionModel/vtkExecutive.cxx,
>>>> line 754
>>>> vtkPVCompositeDataPipeline (0x252ff00): Algorithm
>>>> vtkVisItMirandaReader(0x25342b0) returned failure for request:
>>>> vtkInformation (0x2521130)
>>>> Debug: Off
>>>> Modified Time: 119319
>>>> Reference Count: 1
>>>> Registered Events: (none)
>>>> Request: REQUEST_DATA_OBJECT
>>>> ALGORITHM_AFTER_FORWARD: 1
>>>> FORWARD_DIRECTION: 0
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Sep 10, 2014, at 4:55 PM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hey Rich,
>>>> 
>>>> Is this a matter of updating the VisIt bridge or the code in VisIt
>>>> is old too?
>>>> 
>>>> What are the larger runs these folks do? And what is the timeframe?
>>>> 
>>>> We are working on ADIOS readers and that may be another option. This
>>>> is where we currently plan on pushing for large scale IO needs.
>>>> 
>>>> HDF5 is certainly another option. So is writing legacy VTK files
>>>> from each node. I'd guess Silo is another option too.
>>>> 
>>>> It depends on the needs and scale at which they will be running.
>>>> 
>>>> Best,
>>>> -berk
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Cook, Rich <cook47 at llnl.gov> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I am wondering how to write out a set of VTK files for input into
>>>>> paraview.
>>>>> The code we are writing from is Miranda, an MPI code, and each
>>>>> processor writes out its subdomain individually.  No ghost zones
>>>>> are written into the files.  Perhaps they could be; I’m not sure about that part.
>>>>> Sometimes the data is curvilinear but usually rectilinear.
>>>>> Miranda is included in the VISIT_BRIDGE stuff but what’s in
>>>>> VISIT_BRIDGE for Miranda is old and the newer stuff doesn’t parse any more.
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>> 
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