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[Luc Sibille <luc.sibille@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Contact detection in SDEC was based on a grid: each particle was 
attributed to a case of the grid and only particles belonging to 
neighbouring cases were checked to be or not in contact. The size of the 
grid was fitted from the biggest element, thus the velocity of the 
detection was dependent on the gradding of the granular assembly.

After it is difficult to say if SDEC was slower or faster than Yade, I 
tried to make comparisons but it was on different computers, so it is 
not very meaningful! Please keep in mind that SDEC and Yade are made 
with different objectives. It was not very easy in SDEC to make 
modifications without change the core of the code, whereas evolutions 
and complementary packages can be easly introduced in Yade, and 
everybody  can take advantage of developments made by others. With 
Jean-Patrick, we made developments in SDEC during more than three years, 
now all those developments are in the garbage because SDEC was not 
open-ended...

Luc

Janek Kozicki a écrit :
> Václav Šmilauer said:     (by the date of Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:46:52 +0100)
>
> > > > > In another words, Olivier (and you) didn't bother to google out articles
> > > > > on that and thought he was the smartest guy.
> > > > yeah. That time there was a LOT of other stuff to bother about, than
> > > > colliders :) Paint me ashamed ;>
> > I am not saying you are to be blamed, but Frederic, as supervisor of the
> > project, should have managed that.
>
> I recall his point of view: SDEC has a lot slower collider (IIRC:
> it was "check everything with everything"?. Some SDEC user could tell
> us). And so Frederic was very happy to see how much faster SAP is :)

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