[vtkusers] vtkPDataSetWriter Question

[Jean M. Favre]

Jeremy Stout wrote:
> Hello, I am working with an unstructured grid that contains several
> hundred thousand cells. I would like to partition this grid and store
> it in vtk's parallel file format....

> What I am wondering is whether this class will
> intelligently partition my grid or if I need to do that myself.

Check out vtkDistributedDataFilter. This filter redistributes data among 
processors in a parallel application into spatially contiguous 
vtkUnstructuredGrids.

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

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