

Using the command prompt, navigate to the root of Machine A’s C drive, because that is the directory where we placed the Selenium Server. The following steps will launch the hub and the node.

In the next post, I will discuss how you can save your particle data in VTK binary format. After doing this, you are now done installing Selenium Grid. I prefer these tools to TecPlot, mainlyīecause I can write plugins quite easily. Writing your data to files in VTK format is straightforward and reading them in The data can be easily read into Visit and the resulting plot can be seen below. The output file produced by this approach has the extension. Using vtkPointsP = vtkSmartPointer using vtkUnstructuredGridP = vtkSmartPointer using vtkHexahedronP = vtkSmartPointer using vtkXMLUnstructuredGridWriterP = vtkSmartPointer using Node = std :: vector using Element = std :: vector void OutputVTK :: writeGrid ( double time, const BoxArray & grid, std :: ostringstream & fileName ) The output file Regular) but stick to hexahedral elements in this example. We write the grid using an unstructured grid writer (because the grid may not be Most HPC systems also have VTK installed by default because of its wide use. I haven’t tried more recent versions, but the API hasn’t changed much. In Ubuntu 16.04, installing VTK (a slightly older version, 5.10), is straightforward. The process of creating appropriately named files is routine and A set ofįiles is produced at each timestep in the simulation where the user feels that there isĪ need to output results. A set of particles that contain position, geometry, and physical state data.Įach of these datasets changes with time so they also contain a timestamp.Of the domain into pieces that are sent to various processors during the computation A grid that describes the boundary of the computational domain and the partitioning.The data produced by the particle simulation codes typically has two components: If the files are small, I use ASCII for readability but for large simulations I write out VTK XML files containing binary data. In this blog post I’ll describe how I write data from my particle-based simulations into VTK format output files.
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Note: If your code is running on large modern HPC machines, you should consider formats that are more efficient for I/O and remote visualization.

The advantage of this format is its simplicity and that makes it suitable for small research codes. One of the formats that both these tools can understand is the VTK XML format. In particular, they are good for remote and visualization. These tools are wonderful for dealing with large datasets and can read a huge variety of file formats. I visualize the output of my simulations using either LLNL’s Visit or Kitware’s ParaView.
