Miscellaneous on Parallel IO

ƒ If the machine running the host process has enough memory, can speed up reading the case
file by using the following Scheme command:
(rpsetvar 'parallel parallel/fast-io? #t)
Fluent will first read the whole mesh into the host machine before distributing to the compute
nodes
ƒ When loading a large mesh into parallel Fluent and the process hangs, execute the
following Scheme command:
(rpsetvar 'parallel/case-read-use-pack? #f)
The above will disable buffer packing and will change the way entities are packed into
messages during the build process
ƒ To check the time taken to read a case, can use:
(print-case-timer)
ƒ Fluent 6.2 has significant improvement for parallel case read
• Two available settings:
(rpsetvar ‘parallel/fast-read-case? #t)
(rpsetvar ‘parallel/fast-read-section? #t)
Gives the similar performance as the fast-io option in Fluent 6.1 but with much less
memory usage
• Turned on by default
• If turned off, will revert to the previous 6.1 methods

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