[Users] Visit & CarpetHDF5 mismatch?

[Kelly, Bernard J. (GSFC-660.0)[UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY]]

Hi Ian.


I'll look for a logfile, but there was nothing generated in my ~/.visit
that I could see.

Which reminds me: can frequent Visit/CarpetHDF5 users confirm for me where
they get (a) Visit, and (b) CarpetHDF5? For me the answers are:

(a) the "Mac OS X - Intel 64 bit" binary from here:
https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/executables.html

(b) the cactuscode VizTools trunk via svn:  svn co
https://svn.cactuscode.org/VizTools/CarpetHDF5/trunk/ CarpetHDF5

The instructions in the latter's README.txt seem a bit out of date, which
made me suspicious. The lines about "updating the paths to the HDF5
library", for instance:

install_name_tool -change '@executable_path/../lib/libhdf5.dylib'
'/usr/local/lib/libhdf5.1.dylib'
~/.visit/darwin-i386/plugins/databases/libEvisitCarpetHDF5Database_ser.dyli
b

Now my 64-bit installation generates three subdirectories in ~/.visit:
"2.4.2", "darwin-i386", and "darwin-x86_64". Of these, only "2.4.2" had
any content in the "plugins/databases/" subdirectory, and these dylibs
were *similar but not identical* in name to what's mentioned in the README
(e.g.,  libECarpetHDF5Database_ser.dylib rather than
libEvisitCarpetHDF5Database_ser.dylib).

So ... should I be using a different version of Visit (older, 32-bit,
etc.)?

Bernard

On 4/10/12 4:24 PM, "Ian Hinder" <ian.hinder at aei.mpg.de> wrote:

>
>On 10 Apr 2012, at 22:21, Kelly, Bernard J. (GSFC-660.0)[UNIVERSITY OF
>MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY] wrote:
>
>> Hi all. I'd like to visualise some 3D data produced by an initial-data
>>run
>> of the EinsteinToolkit (Maxwell).
>> 
>> 
>> I'm outputting using CarpetIOHDF5; I have an output file
>> "hahndol::hahndol_coulomb.h5", and decided to use Visit, as recommended
>>by
>> cactuscode, etc.
>> 
>> I grabbed the CarpetHDF5 plugin code from svn, and installed as per
>> instructions (pointing at the ETK-installed HDF5 in my
>> Cactus/configs/<config-name>/scratch/external directory).
>> 
>> Starting Visit (2.4.2) , and trying to load a .h5 file yields the
>> following error:
>> 
>> 
>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>--
>> ----
>> The metadata server running on host localhost has exited abnormally.
>>VisIt
>> is trying to restart it.
>> Shortly thereafter, the following occured...
>> VisIt was unable to open
>> 
>>"/Users/bjkelly1/Projects/CODES/Cactus/exe/BL_IJS_test/hahndol::hahndol_c
>>ou
>> lomb.h5".  Each attempt to open it caused VisIt's metadata server to
>> crash.  This can occur when the file is corrupted, or when the
>>underlying
>> file format has changed and VisIt's readers have not been updated yet,
>>or
>> when the reader VisIt is using for your file format is not robust.
>>Please
>> check whether the file is corrupted and, if not, contact a VisIt
>>developer.
>> 
>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>--
>> ----
>> 
>> 
>> I have no idea whether the file is corrupted, but wanted to know: is the
>> CarpetHDF5 plugin up-to-date with the output of Maxwell's CarpetIOHDF5?
>> 
>> Any basic ideas where I might have gone wrong?
>
>One problem can come from Visit trying to open too many files for the
>maximum open file limit of your OS.  Mac OS, for example, has a very
>small limit.  Try changing this with ulimit.  But ultimately, you should
>try to find the actual error message.  I think there is an option for
>Visit to output the errors to a file, but it's so long since I've used
>Visit that I don't remember.  Probably someone else can fill that in...
>
>-- 
>Ian Hinder
>http://numrel.aei.mpg.de/people/hinder
>