add parallel dump file info to rerun doc page

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Steve Plimpton
2019-01-04 17:09:11 -07:00
parent c26b2078ee
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@ -107,6 +107,14 @@ However if you specify a series of dump files in an incorrect order
(with respect to the timesteps they contain), you may skip large
numbers of snapshots
Note that the dump files specified as part of the {dump} keyword can
be parallel files, i.e. written as multiple files either per processor
and/or per snapshot. If that is the case they will also be read in
parallel which can make the rerun command operate dramatically faster
for large systems. See the doc page for the "read_dump"_read_dump and
"dump"_dump.html commands which describe how to read and write
parallel dump files.
The {first}, {last}, {every}, {skip} keywords determine which
snapshots are read from the dump file(s). Snapshots are skipped until
they have a timestamp >= {Nfirst}. When a snapshot with a timestamp >