[Paraview] Loading whole time series in ParaView at once

[ronald.fowler at stfc.ac.uk]

I find that using ParaView in client server mode can make animations significantly faster. Even if the pvserver processes don't have access to graphics cards for rendering they can load the data and serve the geometry to the client faster than a single instance of ParaView can, if you have the memory and processors available.
If you do one full pass through the animation to load the data then subsequent passes are much quicker, at least in my experience on smallish problems.
I noticed that the gain from using multiple servers is only seen when using the distributed results, not the reconstructed case. Using the D3 filter on the reconstructed case might alter this, I haven't tried.

Regards,
Ron
[forgot to include paraview at paraview.org previously, thanks Armin]

-----Original Message-----
From: ParaView [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org] On Behalf Of Armin Wehrfritz
Sent: 13 February 2015 13:23
To: j.dubsky at centrum.cz; paraview at paraview.org
Subject: Re: [Paraview] Loading whole time series in ParaView at once

> thanks  for your reply. I'm using the ParaView builtin reader. I 
> always do "touch xxx.foam" in my OpenFOAM folder and after this I just 
> start the paraview binary.
>
> But actually I'm not sure if this is the problem of the reader or 
> ParaView itself. We have the same problem when loading other data 
> formats too. Paraview always loads the time steps one by one. This is 
> quite annoying if you're switching from one step to the other.

I agree, the "loading of a whole time series" issue is a ParaView limitation/feature and most likely not reader specific.


> However I didn't try the option you've mention. How can I tell 
> ParaView to cache at least the mesh in memory?
For the built-in ParaView reader, the default is to cache the mesh.
There is a checkbox in the properties panel.


Cheers,
Armin
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