H5Part development and discussion

[Jozsef Bakosi <jbakosi AT lanl.gov>]

Hi Achim,

Sorry for the late reply.

Yes, Wednesday 8am MST (5pm CET) works for me. I prefer Google hangout
(jbakosi AT gmail.com), but Skype might also work (jbakosi).

Let's have a chat on Wednesday then.

Thanks,
Jozsef
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Jozsef Bakosi
Computational Physics and Algorithms (CCS-2)
MS D413, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
email: jbakosi AT lanl.gov
phone: 505-665-0950
fax: 505-665-4972

On 10.28.2016 16:21, gsell wrote:
> Hi Jozsef,
> 
> > On 25 Oct 2016, at 21:50, Jozsef Bakosi <jbakosi AT lanl.gov> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Andy,
> > 
> > Yes, I have seen h5hut but since at the time I was only interested in 
> > particles,
> > I just used H5Part. However, now I would be interested in it more and 
> > looked at
> > it again and saw that there is capability in there to save unstructured 
> > meshes
> > too. This would be great, if it worked in parallel. According to the web 
> > site it
> > does not yet work in parallel. I also have not found documentation on the 
> > API
> > for H5hut. I would be interested in exploring how much work is missing to 
> > make
> > it fulfill the requirements I am aiming for.
> 
> An experimental code for reading unstructured meshes in parallel already 
> exist. But there is still lot of work to do, till this code is really 
> usable. For the time being we cannot store unstructured meshes per time 
> step, but this would be a minor change.
> 
> > 1. Does anyone know of an existing library that satisfies all the above
> > requirements?
> 
> 
> No.
> 
> > 2. How much work do you think it would be to add the mesh topology 
> > information
> > to H5Part?
> 
> In principal this is already possible with H5hut/H5Part. It's not really 
> according the data model for storing particle data, but anyway ...
> 
> A better solution would be to implement another data model for arbitrary 
> datasets. This shouldn't be to hard.
> 
> > I am available for live conversation, possibly via skype, google hangout, 
> > or
> > phone. Please let me know if someone is interested in pursuing this and 
> > want to
> > have a live discussion on it.
> 
> OK, let's have a live discussion on it. Would next Wednesday at 5pm CET 
> (8am MST?) be OK?
> 
> Best
> 
> Achim