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[Johan Hake <johan.hake@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday August 6 2010 08:55:44 Garth N. Wells wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 08:42 -0700, Johan Hake wrote:
> > On Friday August 6 2010 08:16:26 you wrote:
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > > revno: 4896
> > > committer: Garth N. Wells <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > branch nick: dolfin-all
> > > timestamp: Fri 2010-08-06 16:13:29 +0100
> > > 
> > > message:
> > >   Add simple Stokes solver for parallel testing.
> > >   
> > >   Other Stokes demos don't run in parallel because MeshFunction io is
> > >   not supported in parallel.
> > 
> > Does anyone have an overview of what is needed for this to be fixed. I
> > couldn't find a blueprint on it.
> 
> Here it is:
> 
>     https://blueprints.launchpad.net/dolfin/+spec/parallel-io

Ok

> > I am interested in getting this fixed :)
> 
> Me too! We need to look at all the io since much of it is broken in
> parallel.

Ok, but isn't this two different problems. 

  1) Reading in a MeshFunction from a ordinary file into a parallel structur,
     in line with what we do with the Mesh.
  2) Storing and reading parallel structures

or are these connected in some way?

> We need to settle on how to handle XML data. I favour (and I know Niclas
> Janson does too) the VTK approach in which we have a 'master file' that
> points to other XML files which contain portions of the vector/mesh,
> etc. Process zero can read the 'master file' and then instruct the other
> processes on which file(s) they should read in.

I guess this goes for case 2?

I am in more need of getting 1) fixed.

Johan

> Garth
> 
> > Johan
> > 
> > >   demo/pde/stokes/simple/
> > >   demo/pde/stokes/simple/cpp/
> > >   demo/pde/stokes/simple/cpp/SConstruct
> > >   demo/pde/stokes/simple/cpp/Stokes.h
> > >   demo/pde/stokes/simple/cpp/Stokes.ufl
> > >   demo/pde/stokes/simple/cpp/main.cpp
> > >   demo/pde/stokes/simple/python/
> > >   demo/pde/stokes/simple/python/demo.py
> > > 
> > > The size of the diff (13308 lines) is larger than your specified limit
> > > of 1000 lines
> > > 
> > > --
> > > lp:dolfin
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