Re: [Libmesh-devel] Partition-agnostic parallel EquationSystem restart files

2007-11-30 Thread Roy Stogner
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Benjamin Kirk wrote: >> On the other hand, it would be better if we could make the default >> behavior more user-friendly. Instead of testing for the presence of a >> --read_legacy command line switch, why can't we test for the absense >> of that new version line at the begin

Re: [Libmesh-devel] Partition-agnostic parallel EquationSystem restart files

2007-11-30 Thread Roy Stogner
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Benjamin Kirk wrote: > If you are willing to give up M->N restart, though, it would only take 5 > lines to add an option for each processor to write its data into > 'foo.xda.pid' with all the header information put in 'foo.xda'. You know, we wouldn't necessarily have to give

Re: [Libmesh-devel] Partition-agnostic parallel EquationSystem restart files

2007-11-30 Thread Benjamin Kirk
> On the other hand, it would be better if we could make the default > behavior more user-friendly. Instead of testing for the presence of a > --read_legacy command line switch, why can't we test for the absense > of that new version line at the beginning of the file? Probably do-able... > > Ot

Re: [Libmesh-devel] Partition-agnostic parallel EquationSystem restart files

2007-11-30 Thread Benjamin Kirk
> Very cool work > > I'm still waiting for parallel IO as well... ;-) Roy is right -- I started with the most complex format I could think of and will incrementally add more capability. What I added now serializes through processor 0 but alleviates the serial 'stitching' program required for

Re: [Libmesh-devel] Partition-agnostic parallel EquationSystem restart files

2007-11-30 Thread Derek Gaston
Very cool work I'm still waiting for parallel IO as well... ;-) Derek On Nov 30, 2007 2:56 PM, Benjamin Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > **please read if you want to be able to read your existing restart files!** > > ...are now supported. It is not required to serialize the mesh to write a

Re: [Libmesh-devel] Partition-agnostic parallel EquationSystem restart files

2007-11-30 Thread Roy Stogner
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Benjamin Kirk wrote: > **please read if you want to be able to read your existing restart files!** This line should probably be repeated with more boldface, caps, and exclamation points. On the other hand, it would be better if we could make the default behavior more user-fr