[Paraview] Parallel Unstructured Format Recommendations

[Andy Bauer]

Hi Sean,

I don't know the answer since I don't deal with that many different
unstructured grid file formats when reading data into PV. As far as I know,
we don't mark too carefully which unstructured grid readers can partition
data in parallel. My best advice for this is just to try it reading
different data files yourself and see what happens -- not very helpful but
the best suggestion I can give. If you need a sample data set, you can try
cloning from git://vtk.org/VTKData.git which should have most of the data
formats you're interested in.

Best,

Andy


On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:13 PM, <Sean.Ziegeler at engilitycorp.com> wrote:

> ParaView has improved its readers a lot lately, so I'd love some guidance
> on which are the best options these days.  I need something that is rather
> scalable, especially for the simulation.  Our group had initially arrived
> at XDMF, but the documentation seems to suggest that it doesn't use
> Parallel HDF5 (that one must use collections of serial HDF5 files
> instead).  Maybe that is dated?  CGNS seems to support Parallel HDF5 on the
> sim side; does the PV reader support reading it in parallel?  I'm leaning
> toward Parallel HDF5 as the underlying container, but I'd consider other
> alternatives if they are scalable and reasonably portable.
>
> Thanks!
> Sean
>
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