H5Part development and discussion

[Jozsef Bakosi <jbakosi AT lanl.gov>]

Alright, I'm here, ready and online. Christoph Junghans might also join us 
(also
from LANL) but might be a bit late.

Thanks,
Jozsef
-- 
Jozsef Bakosi, LANL CCS-2, 505-665-0950

On 11.02.2016 06:27, Adelmann Andreas (PSI) wrote:
>    ok lets do Hangouts, I will send you an invitation
> 
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>    On 01 Nov 2016, at 14:47, Jozsef Bakosi <[1]jbakosi AT lanl.gov> wrote:
> 
>    Hi Achim,
>    Sorry for the late reply.
>    Yes, Wednesday 8am MST (5pm CET) works for me. I prefer Google hangout
>    ([2]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: [3]jbakosi AT lanl.gov
>    phone: 505-665-0950
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>    On 10.28.2016 16:21, gsell wrote:
> 
>      Hi Jozsef,
> 
>      On 25 Oct 2016, at 21:50, Jozsef Bakosi <[4]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
> 
> References
> 
>    1. mailto:jbakosi AT lanl.gov
>    2. mailto:jbakosi AT gmail.com
>    3. mailto:jbakosi AT lanl.gov
>    4. mailto:jbakosi AT lanl.gov