[vtkusers] PVTS, Multiblock or Both

[Andy Bauer]

You need to specify the WholeExtent in the RequestInformation request.You
actually don't specify the local extent, the pipeline will give you that
for a source. I'd recommend looking at the
Imaging/Core/vtkRTAnalyticSource.cxx class in VTK to see how it's done as a
source.


On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 1:16 AM, Philip Sakievich <psakievich at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Andy and community,
>
> I have read about the concept of whole extent vs extent, but the one thing
> I don't seem to be able to determine is how to set the  whole extent to be
> different.  I tried using vtkStructuredGrid.Crop() but nothing is happening.
>
> In the code snippet below, I have previously declared points local to each
> processor.  I now want to populate a structured grid and write a *pvts that
> ties them all together.  When I run this code the pvts writes itself and
> the files, but they all have the same whole extent and extent.  Nothing is
> cropped to the desired local extent.  What am I doing wrong?  How do I
> specify a whole extent that is uniform across all processors, and a local
> extent that is specific to each one?
>
> #create grid and filter for processing to writer
> pf=vtk.vtkProgrammableFilter()
> sg=vtk.vtkStructuredGrid()
>
> #set extent global
> sg.SetExtent(0,15,0,32,0,15)
>
> #set extent local
> if rank==0:
>    lE=np.array([0,8,0,32,0,8],dtype=int)
>    sg.Crop(lE)
> if rank==1:
>    lE=np.array([0,8,0,32,7,15],dtype=int)
>    sg.Crop(lE)
> if rank==2:
>    lE=np.array([7,15,0,32,0,8],dtype=int)
>    sg.Crop(lE)
> if rank==3:
>    lE=np.array([7,15,0,32,7,15],dtype=int)
>    sg.Crop(lE)
>
> sg.SetPoints(pnts)
> pf.SetInputData(sg)
>
> writer=vtk.vtkXMLPStructuredGridWriter()
> writer.SetInputConnection(pf.GetOutputPort())
> writer.SetController(contr)
> writer.SetDataModeToAscii()
> writer.SetFileName('testgrid.pvts')
> writer.SetNumberOfPieces(nranks)
> writer.SetStartPiece(rank)
> writer.SetEndPiece(rank)
> writer.Write()
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil
>
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 7:31 AM, Andy Bauer <andy.bauer at kitware.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would recommend using the pvts format since that is the best format for
>> storing structured grids. If you read it back in it will know how to
>> properly partition the data set for different amounts of processes as well
>> as do things like ghost cells, extract surfaces, etc.
>>
>> For topologically structured grids like vtkStructuredGrid there are two
>> types of extents, "whole extent" describes the beginning and ending node
>> (inclusive) in each direction for the entire grid while "extent" refers to
>> each process's (or pieces if you're serial but doing streaming) partition
>> of the grid. I believe this should be explained in the VTK User's Guide
>> which is now available for free as a pdf download.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andy
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Philip Sakievich <psakievich at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I am reasonably new to vtk and I am mainly using it to manage datasets
>>> on structured grids.
>>>
>>> I am trying to write data for a structured grid in parallel python via
>>> MPI.  Each process has a separate portion of the grid, and I'm trying to
>>> figure out how to set up the write process. I was following this example:
>>>
>>> http://www.vtk.org/gitweb?p=VTK.git;a=blob;f=IO/ParallelXML/
>>> Testing/Python/testParallelXMLWriters.py
>>>
>>> But then I realized that in this case each process has the entire grid,
>>> and each processor is just writing a portion of the data it contains.  So
>>> do I need to use a multiblock data set?  Can someone please provide a
>>> simple example of how to write a structured grid in parallel provided each
>>> process has the local extent correctly specified?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> --
>>> Phil Sakievich
>>>
>>> PhD Candidate - Mechanical Engineering
>>> Arizona State University - Ira A. Fulton School for Engineering of
>>> Matter Transport and Energy
>>> Tempe, Arizona
>>>
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>
>
> --
> Phil Sakievich
>
> PhD Candidate - Mechanical Engineering
> Arizona State University - Ira A. Fulton School for Engineering of Matter
> Transport and Energy
> Tempe, Arizona
>
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