Hi, I know that Paraview supports many different file formats ( http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView:FAQ#What_file_formats_does_ParaView_support.3F ). I know that the following parallel binary formats are among the ones supported: - VTK files (xml with zipped, binary data) - ParaView data files - HDF5 files (different formats) - XDMF
What I would like to know is which format is best parallelized by ParaView/VTK? When using structured or unstructured grids (size in the range of tens of gigabytes), does it make sense to split up the file in different data sets manually? Or does ParaView/VTK do this automatically? Or does it depend on which of the above formats is used? I have been using the PFLOTRAN HDF5 reader for a project (around 100 million cells), and it did not behave very nicely so I was wondering if it would make sense in converting the files. Is there any difference in using XDMF (HDF5 + XML meta descriptions if I understood correctly) or HDF5 directly within ParaView? Thanks for the info, Luis Manuel --------------------------------- Luis Manuel de Vries AMPHOS21 Passeig de Garcia i Faria, 49-51, 1-1 08019 Barcelona Spain Tel +34 935 830 500 Fax +34 933 075 928 *luis.de.vr...@amphos21.com <luis.de.vr...@amphos21.com>* www.amphos21.com [image: cid:image001.png@01CA42C1.315780E0] http://www.amphos21.com/disclaimer.php
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