H5Part development and discussion

[Jozsef Bakosi <jbakosi AT lanl.gov>]

Let's just start. Christoph will join when he gets here.
J
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Jozsef Bakosi, LANL CCS-2, 505-665-0950

On 11.02.2016 14:59, gsell wrote:
> 
> > On 02 Nov 2016, at 14:47, Jozsef Bakosi <jbakosi AT lanl.gov> wrote:
> > 
> > Alright, I'm here, ready and online. Christoph Junghans might also join 
> > us (also
> > from LANL) but might be a bit late.
> 
> OK, we can either start the hangout now or at 5pm (CET). What do you prefer?
> 
> Best
> 
> Achim
> > 
> > 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
> >> 
> >>   A
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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
> >>   --
> >>   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
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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
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