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Re: XDMF files

 

I should add that HDF5 will be an optional dependency, and XDMF will
not be a dependency. Since we use HDF5 to store the data, the XDMF XML
files are very lightweight and easily manipulated with pugi xml, as we
do for the other XML files.

Garth

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Garth N. Wells <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes, it's already  implemented (with HDF5 for the underlying data storage) in:
>
>     https://code.launchpad.net/~cam-fenics/dolfin/phdf5
>
> It will be merged in the next few days.
>
> The above branch also has support for reading/writing Vectors, etc in
> parallel via HDF5. We've already seen in serial that the HDF5 io it
> can be >100 times faster than the XML format, and faster than the
> DOLFIN binary format.
>
> Garth
>
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Joachim Berdal Haga <jobh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> It needs to be coordinated with the work on adding HDF5 support:
>>>
>>> https://code.launchpad.net/~cam-fenics/dolfin/phdf5
>>
>> Lovely! Looks like vacation time for me :)
>>
>> -j.
>>
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