[vtk-developers] [Paraview] Test Data for Particle Tracer

[Mathieu Malaterre]

For GDCM, we also have some fairly large datasets used for testing.
rsync came in very handy. I do not know if there is a nice interface
in windows though.

-Mathieu

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:
> I think we should create a new data "repository" for large data. I
> don't think repository should be under version control since scm
> software do not usually deal well with such files. The tests then
> should check if there a CMake variable pointing to such files and run
> the tests if yes. This way we can run tests with files bigger than
> tiny (which is what we currently allow in the cvs). What do you think?
> Having said that, is there no way of generating a smaller artificial
> dataset for testing the particle tracker. I am more concerned with how
> long it will take to run such a test. Testing time is precious since
> we are running a lot of dashboards.
>
> -berk
>
> On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 4:34 AM, John Biddiscombe <biddisco at cscs.ch> wrote:
>> I have a small dataset which I use for testing the particle tracer. It's
>> about 1GB (60 timesteps). Now that I'm ready to commit the latest bunch of
>> improvements to the particle tracer code, I'd like also to add a test or two
>> for it.
>>
>> 1GB seems a tadge on the large side for the standard vtkData cvs repository.
>> I've got another that I'll strip out all the scalar fields from and reduce
>> the number of time steps (50 currently). I should be able to get it down it
>> to a few hundred MB.
>>
>> Question : Usually we try to keep datasets down to a few MB for vtk tests.
>> What is the absolute maximum size that I can get away with for a dynamic
>> mesh, multi-block, vector field dataset for testing. Of course we could
>> limit it to (say) 5 timesteps, but it'd be nice to have a big decent dataset
>> for testing. Many of the bugs etc don't crop up until particle cross
>> boundaries etc and a good long run is nice.
>>
>> Kitware guys - Guidelines?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> JB
>>
>>
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Mathieu