[FLASH-USERS] ask for some help

Ludmila María Rechiman ludmilarechiman at gmail.com
Thu Mar 3 09:40:53 EST 2016


Thank you Tomek for your help, I am doing what you suggest but the FLASH is
not on the list, do you know how to added? thank you very much for your time

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 11:34 AM, Tomasz Plewa <tplewa at fsu.edu> wrote:

> Dear Ludmila -
>
> From the top top of command window, select
>
> Options -> Plugin Manager -> Databases -> FLASH -> Add to preferred list
> -> Apply
>
> You may want to move FLASH to the top of the list and select Apply again.
>
> Then select
>
> Options -> Save Settings
>
> You may need to restart Visit for the above changes to take place.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Tomek
> --
>
> On 03/03/16 08:13, Ludmila María Rechiman wrote:
>
> Dear Scott and Jonathan,
>                                             thank you for the answer, yes,
> I have tried what you suggest, the thing is that in the popup menu
> (filetype list) when I tried to open a FLASH file, it does not show the
> option FLASH.
> I do not understand, I followed the standard procedure but FLASH option is
> not on the list.
>
> thank you in advance
>
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 6:24 PM, Slavin, Jonathan <jslavin at cfa.harvard.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> ​Hi Ludmila,
>>
>> I have found that if I just start visit without any parameters and then
>> open my FLASH generated plot or checkpoint file without specifying the file
>> type, I get errors.  However, if I select the file I want to open and then
>> choose FLASH from the filetype list (open file as type), it works.​  Have
>> you tried that?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jon
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 4:02 PM, <flash-users-request at flash.uchicago.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> From: "Ludmila María Rechiman" <ludmilarechiman at gmail.com>
>>> To: flash-users at flash.uchicago.edu
>>> Cc:
>>> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 18:02:14 -0300
>>> Subject: [FLASH-USERS] ask for some help
>>> Dear community of flash users,
>>>                                               i am new using FLASH. I
>>> have install all the requirements and I was able to run succesfully the
>>> Sedov problem and the WindTunnel problem in serial and in parallel and
>>> varying some parameters. The thing is that I also install visit 2.10, and
>>> it seems to work but the plugin dedicated to read the FLASH data it was not
>>> installed, then I can not visualize any data.
>>>
>>> I have made the following steps:
>>>
>>> 1) I have run the script build_visit.sh that I download from (
>>> http://portal.nersc.gov/project/visit/releases/2.10.0/build_visit2_10_0).
>>>
>>>
>>> 2)In the folder /home/ludmila/visit/visit2.10.0/src  I have run : make
>>> all . I attach the log file
>>>
>>> 3) then in the folder I run :
>>> /home/ludmila/visit/visit2.10.0/src/bin/./visit -assume_format FLASH
>>>
>>> 4)The visit Gui interface open but when I open the results of my
>>> simulation I get the following error (I attach the .png of the screen):
>>>
>>> VisIt could not read from the file
>>> "/home/ludmila/FLASH4.3/object/sedov_hdf5_chk_* database".
>>>
>>>
>>> The generated error message was:
>>>
>>>
>>> There was an error opening
>>> /home/ludmila/FLASH4.3/object/sedov_hdf5_chk_* database. It may be an
>>> invalid file.
>>>
>>> VisIt tried using the following file format readers to open the file:
>>> <No suitable plugins were identified>
>>>
>>>
>>> 5) I thoght that if I run:
>>> /home/ludmila/visit/visit2.10.0/src/databases/cmake .
>>>
>>>
>>> it will compile all the plugins including the FLASH, but I get the
>>> following error:
>>>
>>>
>>> see the last .png
>>>
>>> I have been trying several ideas but no one seem to work. I would like
>>> to ask you if some have some idea of what am I doing wrong of if I am
>>> missing some thing.
>>>
>>> Thank you for your time
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> ludmila
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> ________________________________________________________
>> Jonathan D. Slavin                 Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
>> jslavin at cfa.harvard.edu       60 Garden Street, MS 83
>> phone: (617) 496-7981       Cambridge, MA 02138-1516
>> cell: (781) 363-0035             USA
>> ________________________________________________________
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> ludmila
>
>
>


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ludmila
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