Oops I forgot, +3 xdmf3 has support for DMP parallel writes in master (will appear in PV 5.5.)
David E DeMarle Kitware, Inc. Principal Engineer 21 Corporate Drive Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662 Phone: 518-881-4909 On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 1:58 PM, David E DeMarle <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Mike. > > You mean select the XDMF "Reader", not "Writer" when you open the file > correct? > > In theory XDMF3 should read almost anything XDMF2 could. The main > practical differences in my recollection are: > > + xdmf3 doesn't leak memory and is faster and less of a memory hog, > especially with time varying data, in my experience. > + xdmf3's field data arrays work better and in particular support > arbitrary width arrays > + Thanks to Michal Habera's Google Summer of Code project xdmf3 master (in > nightly binaries and will appear in PV 5.5) has support for "other" > centered (more than 1 per cell) data in support of FEniCS higher order > cells. > + xdmf3 has a much better suite of tests and contribution path than xdmf2 > ever did > > = xdmf3 had a boost dependency up until about a week ago (will appear in > PV 5.5). > > - xdmf3 tends to complain on files that use default/implied values in the > xml entries. > - xdmf3 doesn't automatically parallelize structured datasets when read in > parallel > - xdmf3 doesn't support strides for structured datasets > - xdfm3 doesn't support "hyperslab, list or range" temporal specifications > - xdmf3 lacks support for function specifications > - xdmf3's notion of subset is slightly different than xdmf2 (2's were > relative to cell, 3's are relative to face/edge or something to that effect) > > If you can share one of your files I'll take a look. > > thanks > > > > David E DeMarle > Kitware, Inc. > Principal Engineer > 21 Corporate Drive > Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662 > Phone: 518-881-4909 <(518)%20881-4909> > > On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 8:57 AM, Michael Jackson < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Where might I find the differences between XDMF version 2 and 3? Our >> project writes a .xdmf file along side our HDF5 file so that ParaView can >> visualize the data. Ever since ParaView version 5.x was released with the >> XDMF 3 included we always have to select the "XDMF Writer" when opening the >> file. If we select the either of the XDMF 3 writers no data is loaded. I >> was wanting to figure out if there is something we need to adjust in our >> XDMF files so that the XDMF 3 readers work correctly with our data/files. >> >> Thanks >> -- >> Michael Jackson | Owner, President >> BlueQuartz Software >> [e] [email protected] >> [w] www.bluequartz.net >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> >> Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView >> >> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: >> http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview >> > >
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