What is the data type? vtkRedistributePolyData and its subclasses do this for polydata. It can do load balancing (where you can specify a weight for each processor) as well.
-berk On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Biddiscombe, John A. <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a filter pipeline which reads N blocks from disk, this works fine on N > processors. > > I now wish to subdivide those N blocks (using a custom filter) to produce new > data which will consist of M blocks - where M >> N. > > I wish to run the algorithm on M processors and have the piece information > transformed between the two filters (reader -> splitter), so that blocks are > distributed correctly. The reader will Read N blocks (leaving M-N processes > unoccupied), but the filter which splits them up needs to output a different > number of pieces and have the full M processes receiving data. > > I have a reasonably good idea of how to implement this, but I'm wondering if > any filters already do something similar. I will of course take apart the D3 > filter for ideas, but I don't need to do a parallel spatial decomposition > since my blocks are already discrete - I just want to redistribute the blocks > around and more importantly change the numbers of them between filters. > > If anyone can suggest examples which do this already, please do > > Thanks > > JB > > -- > John Biddiscombe, email:biddisco @ cscs.ch > http://www.cscs.ch/ > CSCS, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre | Tel: +41 (91) 610.82.07 > Via Cantonale, 6928 Manno, Switzerland | Fax: +41 (91) 610.82.82 > > > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview > _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
