[Paraview] Loading whole time series in ParaView at once

[j.dubsky at centrum.cz]

Hi,
I'm currently struggling with one problem in ParaView, where I didn't find any solution up to now.

My problem looks like this: I have a transient OpenFOAM simulation and want to do postprocessing of my results. This itself is not a big problem. I can load the data and switch between the timesteps and it works. The problem is, that it works terribly slowly. As far as I understand it, the way how this work is, that with every switching from one step to the other Paraview has to load the results and the mesh every time.

What I would prefere much more would be the option to let ParaView load all the time steps at once. Of course this would need much more resources, but exactly with the resources I'm not really limited (having a huge cluster with ~500 nodes).

Therefore loading the whole time series and having the possibility to switch between the timesteps quickly without having to load the mesh/data all the time would be a great improvement for me.

Is there any way how this could be done, or is it something that ParaView has not really been designed for? For example ine Ensight I do have this option and it makes the work with the transient results much better.

Many thanks in advance for any help or advice on this issue.

Regards

Josef