[vtkusers] parallel mesh reading and writing

Kevin H. Hobbs hobbsk at ohiou.edu
Tue Jan 23 11:06:59 EST 2007


On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 08:34 -0700, Karl Merkley wrote:
> I have a requirement to read and write vtk structured and  
> unstructured mesh data in parallel.   These would be large data files  
> distributed on multiple nodes.   Does anyone have any "favorite" mesh  
> databases for handling this type of requirement.  There is an HDF5  
> prototype mesh API, but no one has done anything with the prototype  
> in the last 5 years.   I could use the Exodus stuff that is in vtk  
> from Sandia, but that has no explicit format for storing a structured  
> mesh.  Any other suggestions?
> 
>      Thanks,
>           Karl

Have you looked at the vtkXMLP classes? It sounds like they do exactly
what you want.
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