[vtkusers] serial to parallel XML vktUnstructuredGrid converter via filenames?

[Berk Geveci]

As far as I know, there is no utility to do this. However, writing one
shouldn't be too hard. The .pvtu file format is very straightforward
xml.

-Berk

On 7/7/05, Peter Schmitt <pschmitt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there vtk functionality to create a parallel vtk xml file from
> input of an array of serial vtk xml files?
> 
> Motivation:  I have 3 gigs of data.  If I attempt to load all 3 gigs
> of data and export to a vtk parallel unstructured grid (pvtu) format,
> my program aborts because my computer runs out of memory when
> allocating arrays to store the data (i.e. vtkPoints, vtkFloatArray,
> etc...).  However, I have no problem exporting data in my custom
> format to n-number of individual vtk unstructured grid files.
> 
> I would like vtk to create a single parallel vtk unstructured grid
> file (pvtu) which points to n-number of serial vtk unstructured grid
> files (vtu).  I imagine that vtk might have such functionality and I
> would like to avoid writing a custom app to do this.
> 
> The vtk users guide doesn't point me to any such functions, and the
> vtk book itself doesn't even have the xml formats in it.  I couldn't
> find any such functionality via the online vtk documentation either,
> but maybe I'm missing something or looking in the wrong place.
> 
> Thanks!
> Pete
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