# Nek5000reader load error for Large dataset

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/nek5000reader-load-error-for-large-dataset/15351
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [September 6, 2024, 11:10am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/nek5000reader-load-error-for-large-dataset/15351 "2024-09-06T11:10:18Z")
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### Author: ![Lei\_Zhou](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/lei_zhou/32/15087_2.png) [@Lei\_Zhou](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Lei_Zhou)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2024, 11:10am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/nek5000reader-load-error-for-large-dataset/15351/1 "2024-09-06T11:10:18Z")

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Dear commnuity:  
I try to load a large dataset (around 50 GB) using Nek5000reader by mpi. I loaded it on my CentOS workstation, which has 256 GB memory and 40 CPUs.

It threw such a problem **956: seekg error at read\_location = -1050980344", how do I solve this problem?**

 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/6/6d4c49f804e25c0d7aa4fc095e66784b63658cff.png)

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2024, 11:15am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/nek5000reader-load-error-for-large-dataset/15351/2 "2024-09-06T11:15:08Z")

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Looks like an overflow of some kind, you may want to open an issue: [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues)

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### Author: ![Lei\_Zhou](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/lei_zhou/32/15087_2.png) [@Lei\_Zhou](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Lei_Zhou)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2024, 12:08pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/nek5000reader-load-error-for-large-dataset/15351/3 "2024-09-06T12:08:18Z")

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Ok, I opened an issue here, [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues/22747](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues/22747)
