On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 14:31, Tim Gallagher <tim.gallagher at > gatech.edu>wrote: > >> I was looking for the 'PETSc' way of doing it, something that lets you >> call VecView(vec, viewer) that generates the heavy data and XML file >> together. If there is not interest in that approach, I can just write the >> routines to make the XML in the code. > > > I don't know if Matt has that in PyLith, or if they use a less composable > interface. > Yes, you can write several vectors using VecView(), AND you can do timesteps :) Matt > Binary-appended VTK does work this way. You can write several vectors to a > file and they are held in memory until you close the file. The > implementation is memory-scalable in the sense that there are no gathers of > global state onto one process. > > Unfortunately, you cannot write many time steps to the same file, so you > should usually create a separate file per step. (Lots of vis software likes > this, so it's not a terrible restriction, although I don't like it.) > -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20111203/08735b22/attachment.html>
