[Paraview] Large Volumes and D3

[Kent Eschenberg]

It seems this should work: read 1 array from 1 HDF5 file then distribute it across nodes with D3.

The array is a simple volume of 2048^3, the data type is unsigned char and the file is 8GB. Its about as simple as it gets!

ParaView crashes when I use D3. Before it crashed the total memory usage for pvserver (i.e., the sum across all 4 nodes) climb to more than 72 GB (virtual) and 40 GB (resident). And I had not yet done any visualization.

ParaView CVS 6/25/2008
CentOS 5
4 nodes
each node has 16 GB and two quad Xeons (x86_64)
pvserver using 4 processes, one per node
HDF5_ENABLE_PARALLEL:BOOL=OFF

It seems there is a fatal design flaw that shows up when working with a large volume. Comments?

Kent
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center