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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds good. The problem with Metis is that it's not open-source. The
license restricts both usage and distribution.

/Anders


On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 12:13:55PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> 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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