[Paraview] visualizing xdmf/hdf5 files in parallel

[David E DeMarle]

Hi Inanc,

Can you share the xdmf file with me?
I can take a look and see what we are doing wrong with it and recommend a
path forward in ParaView, be it xdmf3 or the python source or what not.

thanks,

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

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 6:56 PM, Inanc Senocak <senocak at boisestate.edu>
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
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