[petsc-users] vtk output ASCII or binary

[Xiangdong]

When using the option -viewer_binary_mpiio, I see PETSC Error:
DMDAArrayMPIIO() line 532 in /src/dm/impls/da/gr2.c.

However, when I run it without mpiio, it outputs the binary data fine. What
options am I missing here?

Thank you.

xiangdong




On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 11:59 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:

> Xiangdong <epscodes at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > At this moment, when I write the solutions (two vectors with a few
> billion
> > unknowns) to binary vts format, the writing rate is about 100MB/s from
> proc
> > 0.
>
> How many procs are you writing from and what filesystem do you have?
> How much faster is it if you write the PETSc binary format using MPI-IO
> (-viewer_binary_mpiio)?  If that is lots faster for you, I can fairly
> simply add support for writing VTS that way.  You'll still pay when you
> visualize, however.
>
> > Do you think writing the data into pvts format will enhance the
> > performance?
>
> No.  PVTS is a crappy format designed by people that evidently did not
> understand parallel IO performance.  But all the VTK formats are crappy
> if you really care about performance.  With the VTK formats, if you
> write it efficiently, it will still be a bottleneck to read.  We support
> them because they are easy.  Use HDF5 if you want something sensible.
>
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