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["Johan Hoffman" <jhoffman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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>
> Anders Logg wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 02:45:41PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>>> It would be useful to lay out a plan for tackling DofMaps. Getting this
>>> right is the key to parallel assembly, assembly optimisations and
>>> applying Dirichlet boundary conditions by eliminating Dirichlet dofs
>>> from the global system.
>>>
>>> I'm happy to take a look, but I'll need some time because I've lost my
>>> overview of DofMaps. If someone else is already on top of it, I'd be
>>> happy to provide feedback.
>>>
>>> Garth
>>
>> I won't have time to look at it until after the summer and I haven't
>> started.
>>
>> Anyway, I think we should wait until after the next release until we
>> start messing with the dof maps.
>>
>> Are there any issues we need to sort out before releasing 0.8? I'm
>> thinking about a new release some time this or next week.
>>
>> One is to fix the bug in DirichletBC, but other than that?
>>
>
> Now would be a good time for a release so I can start messing with
> DofMaps.
>
> Garth

Has anything more been done about the DofMap design? During the summer
Niclas has extended to general elements his adaptive algorithm for
distributed parallel computing, so we are now ready to start messing with
the DofMaps in order to implement his algorithm in DOLFIN.

I see Anders report referenced in the code, where the mapping scheme
described is fairly close to what Niclas has implemented, although there
are some differences. We will sit down today to sum up what we think needs
to be done, and then we can discuss this on the mailing list.

/Johan