[Paraview] visualizing xdmf/hdf5 files in parallel

[Armin Wehrfritz]

There has been a similar discussion half a year ago:
http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/paraview/2014-June/031350.html

I believe this is still investigated/ under development.

-Armin




On 02/04/2015 01:56 AM, Inanc Senocak wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> We have a parallel structured Cartesian grid flow solver. We output our
> solution file using xdmf/hdf5 format. File sizes are large (56 GB) so we
> need to render the flow solution in parallel.
>
> We are able to use VisIT to load and render the solution files
> (xdmf/hdf5) efficiently. But we haven't had luck with Paraview. We use
> version 4.3. Basically as we are loading the files, pvserver consumes
> all the memory per node (64TB) and then it crashes. We are able to use
> pvserver to render (in parallel) smaller simulation files (xdmf/hdf5)
> without any issues.
>
> We have tried several options building pvserver but it did not make any
> difference in rendering large files. Maybe there is a bug in the way our
> simulation code writes xdmf/hdf5 files.
>
> Does anyone have a large xdmf/hdf5 simulation file that we can download
> to verify our paraview installation and its parallel rendering performance?
>
> If you have any other tips/experiences regarding parallel rendering of
> large xdmf/hdf5 files, please let me know.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Inanc
>
>
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> Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering
> Boise State University
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>
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