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

Quoting Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>:

> On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:19:43PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Anders Logg wrote:
> > > A first version of the new UFC-based assembly is now implemented.
> > > A bunch of features are still missing, but we can now assemble the
> > > bilinear form for Poisson's equation and get correct results... :-)
> > > 
> > > Here are some notes if anyone wants to dig in. For example, it might
> > > be a good idea to start thinking of merging in the parallel assembler
> > > at this point.
> > > 
> > 
> > Are there any short-term plans to work on partitioning of the mesh and 
> > distributing the mesh data across processors? This is where the real 
> > work is for parallel assembly and solve.
> > 
> > Garth
> 
> Yes, I have a student working on mesh partitioning in DOLFIN and we
> will start adding parts of it in a while, but I can't promise when it
> will be ready. The parallel assembly/distribution will probably be
> implemented before the partitioning has been implemented (and until
> then we can rely on METIS).
>

Might be worth considering SCOTCH

  http://www.labri.fr/perso/pelegrin/scotch/

rather than implementing a partitioning algorithm. Unlike METIS, SCOTCH is
released under GPL.

Garth
 
> /Anders
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