[Paraview] single file for AMR data: not PVD, not VTI, not PVTI, not VTR, maybe XMF?

[Jean M. Favre]

We have currently chosen the solution of using a single HDF5 file which 
contains all grids of all levels for a single time step. It includes all 
spacing information, grid coordinates in the hierarchy, in summary all 
the meta-information which allow us to reconstruct the hierarchy inside 
ParaView in a vtkHierachicalDataSet.

Consequently, we wrote our own reader to decipher the HDF5 encoding. I 
am not a seasoned HDF5 expert, but I did not find that solution too 
difficult to build. Our HDF5 encoding is not final. We could perhaps 
converge together into an encoding acceptable for all.

Drop me a note for more details.

Jean

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Dr. Jean M. Favre,                            email:favre @ cscs.ch
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