[FLASH-USERS] VisIt 1.8.x

[Randy Hudson]

Hi,

I maintain the flash visit plugin at the Flash Center (among other  
things).

I've learned that, at least on some flash data, VisIt 1.8.x operates  
uselessly slowly.  E.g., a vector plot I did of a cylindrical subset  
of the lowest
refinement level of a 7.5GB flash file took 14 times as long w/ visit  
1.8.0 as w/ visit 1.7.1.

I've verified that the latest version of the plugin (that supports  
file format version 9 of FLASH3) can be built and used w/ visit 1.7.1.

If you run into the problem I encountered, I recommend you fall back  
to 1.7.1 and build the plugin with that.

Let me know if you have any problems.


Randy Hudson.