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["Garth N. Wells" <g.n.wells@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I just started this morning. I have the mesh partitioned (using METIS), 
and a MeshFunction contains the partition number for each cell. I plan 
initially to let each processor have a copy of the entire mesh and just 
assemble its partition. Distributing the mesh will come later.

Garth


Anders Logg wrote:
> Excellent! I have an MSc student starting after Christmas to work on
> parallelization of the mesh data structures, including partitioning.
> We should try to coordinate the effort.
>
> /Anders
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 12:02:25PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> > OK. I'm working on parallel assembly now, so I'll take a look at the 
> > degree of freedom numbering when I get to assembling vector-valued problems.
> >
> > I'll check in the beginnings of parallel assembly after the new release 
> > is made.
> >
> > Garth
> >
> >
> > Johan Hoffman wrote:
> > > Sounds good. This is the natural way I think.
> > >
> > > /Johan
> > >
> > > > Should we consider changing the degree of freedom numbering such that
> > > > degrees of freedom at a node are located next to each other in the
> > > > matrix/vector? This will be needed for parallel assembly. It may also
> > > > speed up the assembly of sparse matrices by allowing blocks to be
> > > > assembled.
> > > >
> > > > Garth
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