Improve MultiAppGeneralFieldNearestLocationTransfer

[jvwilliams23]

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[GiudGiud]

hello

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We'll need a test. Please note that parallel support is going to be complicated here, since if we are seeking 3 nearest nodes (=locations, using nodes as an example) for example, these two cases will return different results:

• 3 nearest nodes on the same process domain
• 2 nearest nodes on one process domain and 1 on another process domain

I think there is a way to remediate to this, but it's a little involved and likely modifies routines from the base class a bit. We would need each process to return the 3 nearest nodes and distances, then the requestor process can make the decision as to which nodes to use to get a value

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git clang-format 2790049cfcdb14dfbbddec0841caf92abd6e7be3

[jvwilliams23]

Hi @GiudGiud

Thanks for the helpful comments. I was under the impression that greedy_search=true would handle the issue of nodes on different processes. But you are right, I made a small test and it does not seem to do that.

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