[Paraview] vtkDistributedDataFilter and ghost cells

[Andrew Parker]

Another question which I'd forgotten, how do I get to a vtkUnstructuredGrid
per processor from the vtkDistributedDataFilter.

For instance, dd->GetOutput()->GetPointData()->GetGlobalIds() doesn't work
as it's a vtkDataObject

Stupid question I'm sure but the doxy notes say this type returns an
unstructured mesh, but I can't seem to get it out?

Also, why exactly do I need the vtkPieceScalars and
vtkDataSetSurfaceFilter again?
If the above can be made to work and return the mapping, what are they
adding in terms of information?

Thanks again,
Andy

On 6 November 2012 16:00, Moreland, Kenneth <kmorel at sandia.gov> wrote:

>   I believe vtkDistributedDataFilter will always return with global point
> ids (a mapping from local point ids to global point ids), although it might
> pass them if they already exist.  So
> dd->GetOutput()->GetPointData()->GetGlobalIds() should return the array
> that gives this mapping.
>
>  Ghost cells are only created on demand, and this is usually done by
> pipeline convention.  If you have a filter that needs a layer of ghost
> cells, it should override the RequestUpdateExtent method to increment the
> value of UPDATE_NUMBER_OF_GHOST_LEVELS from the output information to the
> input information.  This method would look something like this.
>
>   int vtkDistributedDataFilter::RequestUpdateExtent(
>   vtkInformation *vtkNotUsed(request),
>   vtkInformationVector **inputVector,
>   vtkInformationVector *outputVector)
> {
>   // get the info objects
>   vtkInformation *inInfo = inputVector[0]->GetInformationObject(0);
>   vtkInformation *outInfo = outputVector->GetInformationObject(0);
>
>    int piece, numPieces, ghostLevels;
>
>    // We require an extra layer of ghost cells from upstream.
>
>    piece =
> outInfo->Get(vtkStreamingDemandDrivenPipeline::UPDATE_PIECE_NUMBER());
>   numPieces =
>
> outInfo->Get(vtkStreamingDemandDrivenPipeline::UPDATE_NUMBER_OF_PIECES());
>   ghostLevels =
>     outInfo->Get(
> vtkStreamingDemandDrivenPipeline::UPDATE_NUMBER_OF_GHOST_LEVELS());
>
>    inInfo->Set(vtkStreamingDemandDrivenPipeline::UPDATE_PIECE_NUMBER(),
> piece);
>   inInfo->Set(vtkStreamingDemandDrivenPipeline::UPDATE_NUMBER_OF_PIECES(),
>               numPieces);
>
> inInfo->Set(vtkStreamingDemandDrivenPipeline::UPDATE_NUMBER_OF_GHOST_LEVELS(),
>               ghostLevels);
>
>    return 1;
> }
>
>
>  The operation of the RequestData method should also strip off this layer
> of ghost cells.  It might be possible to request a layer of ghost cells by
> setting UPDATE_NUMBER_OF_GHOST_LEVELS at the bottom of the pipeline, but
> I'm not totally sure how to make that work.  It's probably easier (or at
> least cleaner) to do it from within a filter.
>
>  -Ken
>
>   From: Andrew Parker <andy.john.parker at googlemail.com>
> Date: Tuesday, November 6, 2012 8:25 AM
> To: "vtkusers at vtk.org" <vtkusers at vtk.org>, "paraview at paraview.org" <
> paraview at paraview.org>
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] vtkDistributedDataFilter and ghost cells
>
>   Hi,
>
>  Hope you can help.  I have some code running in parallel, that by other
> means I have constructed nprocs worth of vtkRectilinearGrids, one per
> process.  Each of which is a valid nprocs-worth of the whole serial mesh,
> I've check this and I am happy with that i.e. it's partitioned properly and
> nothing is missing.  I need the following information to process my data in
> parallel:
>
>  1) I would like the local -> global cell mapping between the local rgrid
> and the corresponding global single mesh.
> 2) I would like to know which cells are on processor boundaries for
> parallel exchange purposes.
> 3) I would like all the double arrays per processor to be "expanded" by
> the amount of (1 level of) ghost cells such that I can properly do the
> computations I want with the ability to exchange only those additional
> cells given the local to global mapping.
>
>  I have tried from the examples to use the following code, which I call
> on every process, each of which has it's own local rgrid as I said.  I do
> the following:
>
>   vtkSmartPointer<vtkDistributedDataFilter> dd =
> vtkSmartPointer<vtkDistributedDataFilter>::New();
>   dd->SetInput(rgrid);
>
>  dd->SetController(getVtkController());
>   dd->SetBoundaryModeToSplitBoundaryCells();
>  //dd->SetBoundaryModeToAssignToOneRegion();
>  //dd->SetBoundaryModeToAssignToAllIntersectingRegions();
>  dd->UseMinimalMemoryOff();
>  dd->Update();
>   vtkPieceScalars *ps = vtkPieceScalars::New();
>  ps->SetInputConnection(dd->GetOutputPort());
>  ps->SetScalarModeToCellData();
>   vtkDataSetSurfaceFilter *dss = vtkDataSetSurfaceFilter::New();
>  dss->SetInputConnection(ps->GetOutputPort());
>
>  The dd object works fine and writing its contents out on each processor
> gives nprocs worth of meshes, each of which look slightly different to the
> way I've partitioned them up, but sum to the same serial mesh so I am happy
> with that working correctly. But I can't for the life of me figure out how
> to obtain local to global cell mappings, allocate ghost cells, or work out
> how to exchange data given the above partition info and comms....
>
>  Note I have not provided any additional information to "dd" regarding
> global cells as per the doxy notes so I assume it went away and computed
> it.  I can't figure out how to extract it however.  I also have no idea how
> to modify each local processor rgrid to include the ghost cells for that
> processor.  Finally given that info, I could exchange between processors to
> write to each local processors ghost cells the corresponding "real" cell
> data from the neighbouring meshes and continue the code.
>
>  Any help really appreciated!
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
>


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