[petsc-dev] DMplex reader / viewers

[Brad Aagaard]

On 01/22/2014 09:35 AM, Jed Brown wrote:
> Brad Aagaard <baagaard at usgs.gov> writes:
>> We have plans to add higher order basis functions to PyLith this spring,
>> and recognize the deficiencies in many of the available formats. It
>> would be nice to have a consistent way to deal with DMPlex I/O and these
>> other issues (boundaries, high order, etc) across various codes using
>> DMPlex.
>
> How important is it to be able to visualize "checkpoint" files, or to
> restart from "visualization" files?  (Many applications write totally
> different files because there is no way to include the semantic
> information in vis files.)

I agree that one would probably not visualize "checkpoint" files nor 
restart from "visualization" files. I wasn't able to follow where the 
discussion separated these issues. Is the DMPlex I/O targeting 
checkpointing and ExodusII/HDF5/etc targeting viz?

Brad