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[Johan Hake <johan.hake@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday March 22 2011 11:29:23 Garth N. Wells wrote:
> Our 'automatic' initialisation of MPI and PETSc is a real mess at the
> moment. It seemed to work before by good luck. The major issue is
> controlling order in the singleton class SubSystemsManager. For example,
> I see that the function SubSystemsManager::init_mpi is called, which set
> variables to take responsibility of MPI, and *after* this the
> SubSystemsManager constructor is called, which resets that flags. The
> end result is that MPI is not finalized.
> 
> I don't see an option other robust option than explicit 'initialise'
> (and maybe 'finalise') function calls. 

This would then be done by the user in each program?

> Any other suggestions?

If so it should be possible to at least automate this within the Python 
interface.

Johan

> Garth
> 
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