[aspect-devel] Raw data output

[Wolfgang Bangerth]

> Then it may be good to write a converter to transform the snapshot
> info into something Visit can process.  Otherwise, you will be writing
> the same data twice during a run, once for visualization and once for
> checkpointing.

That seems awkward. The snapshots are, in essence, memory dumps of some 
crucial data structures -- though they're otherwise very lean. Most of 
this is not of much interest for visualization. And the information you 
need for visualization (or resumption of computations) requires 
rebuilding a whole lot of other data structures. In essence, to convert 
the snapshots into viz files you'd need to restart most of Aspect.

Best
  W.

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