[Paraview] 400GB dataset out of memory on 1k cores?

[Anton Shterenlikht]

>From berk.geveci at kitware.com Tue Sep 22 19:18:53 2015
>
>Hmmm. We are not exactly on the same wavelength :-) When you run a
>threshold filter, you indeed get a volume with all the cells of a given
>grain id. However, when you show it as a Surface (the default mode),
>ParaView extracts the outer surface of that volume. Which ends up being
>equivalent to showing all the interfaces between grains. To actually see
>_all_ of the elements, you need volume rendering. Can you send me a small
>dataset so I can demonstrate the difference in some pictures.
>
>Best,
>-berk

This is a useful dataset:

http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~mexas/0.txz

It's a raw binary with extents 152, 152, 150.
I read it as int, littleEndian.

Many thanks

Anton