[FLASH-USERS] How to generate big checkpoint files in FLASH

Zheng Yuan zhengyuan2014 at u.northwestern.edu
Wed Mar 2 13:05:44 EST 2016


Thanks for this. I will install FLASH in a commercial cluster and run it 
using 1k or more processes using 16*16*16 dim.

Zheng

On 3/2/16 11:54 AM, Klaus Weide wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Mar 2016, Zheng Yuan wrote:
>
>> Thanks Klaus! I will use 3D instead of 2D. Someone also suggested that larger
>> values of lrefine_min & lrefine_max results in larger checkpoint file sizes. I
>> will use 3D & larger Irefine_min&max, while keeping nxb*nyb*nzb = 8*8*8.
> If it is part of your goals to test your compression algorithm in
> realistic situations, I suggest nxb*nyb*nzb = 16*16*16 should be
> considered more typical (for large simulations that produce large files).
>
> Klaus




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