[petsc-users] HDF5 and ParaView

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 23:11, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 3:28 PM David Scott <d.scott at epcc.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Matt,
>>
>> I'll have a go at writing Xdmf files.
>>
>> Am I right in thinking that VTK files are written sequentially?
>>
>
> Yes, it is a rightly despised format, suitable only for beggars and serial
> jobs :)
>
>
By "rightly despised format", I hope you are talking about the legacy VTK
files (the traditional .vtk extension).
The new XML formats with <AppendedData encoding="raw"> are quite easy to
write in parallel with MPI/IO (at least *.vtu files, which is what I'm
using).

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Lisandro Dalcin
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Research Scientist
Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC)
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
http://ecrc.kaust.edu.sa/
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