[Paraview] need/share parallel 32-partitions data

Stephen Wornom stephen.wornom at sophia.inria.fr
Mon Aug 11 09:51:21 EDT 2008


Berk Geveci wrote:
>> There seems to be two approaches to parallel visualation.
>> 1-The paraview file contains the global mesh and say 32 processors are used
>> to visualize the global data. Maybe I am confused but this would seem to be
>> the approach that you suggest above. Else, how would I split the above into
>> partitions?
>> 2-The approach we use is we want to avoid writing global mesh files and a
>> global .vtu file and instead write a .vtu file for each processor. For a
>> computation using 256 processors, 256 separate vtu files are written at each
>> time step with each file being approximately 1/256 the size of a global
>> file. The idea is to use say 32 paraview processors to visualize the 256 vtu
>> files at each time step.
>>     
>
> Perfect. This is the right way of doing it. It should work with any
> number of nodes and partitions as long as you have enough memory. Is
> there a dataset of small to medium size that you can share so that I
> can track down the problem? It would be best if I can open it on at
> most 8 processors...
>
> -berk
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Do you have an anonymous web site that I put the files?
Stephen


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