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Need to add an interface to a mesh partitioner for MPI runs

Open Slaedr opened this issue 6 years ago • 1 comments

Currently, for getting multi-process performance, the cells in the mesh need to pre-ordered by partition index. An interface with Scotch is envisaged to remove this requirement and partition the mesh as a preprocessing step.

Scotch is a good option because the move to PT-Scotch will be easier when the time comes. It appears that ParMetis is not free/open-source.

Slaedr avatar Jan 10 '19 20:01 Slaedr

A Scotch interface has been added in the MPI branch, but it currently does not work. Perhaps the issue is with subdomain restriction, and the trivial partition only happens to work.

Slaedr avatar Sep 12 '19 16:09 Slaedr