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

Berk Geveci berk.geveci at kitware.com
Fri Sep 25 08:05:51 EDT 2015


Thanks Anton. We are looking at alternative ways of doing this. For
reference, the algorithm we are looking at is this:

http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkDiscreteMarchingCubes.html

Best,
-berk

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 4:28 AM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bris.ac.uk>
wrote:

> >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
>
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