[vtkusers] vtkFloatArray Unable to allocate elements

[N. Yang]

Dear all,

i was trying visualize a ASCII STRUCTURED_POINTS DATASET representing
the velocity of the flow. the dataset is about 66MB. when rendering, i
got a lot of:

ERROR: In /home/xxx/VTK-src/Common/vtkDataArrayTemplate.txx, line 241
vtkFloatArray (0x8253300): Unable to allocate 196804644 elements of size
4: St9bad_alloc

ERROR: In /home/xxx/VTK-src/Common/vtkDataArrayTemplate.txx, line 241
vtkFloatArray (0x8253300): Unable to allocate 196804647 elements of size
4: St9bad_alloc
....
....

i just wonder if these errors involve problem like"out of memory", "out
of quota" or something like this. in other words, what's implied by this
kind of error? hardware limit or bad design of vtk application? 

could someone point out for me please? thank you!

regards

Jerry