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</span> What "global idea"? Even with something simple like DMDA the "global idea" of a variable depends on the number of processes, similarly if one is doing any kind of partitioner on the unknowns the ordering changes with the number of processors.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br> </font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The point is that it is possible to have a process invariant test, as opposed to impossible. PETSc's MIS is not invariant now anyway. I don't think about DMDA; the problems that I have experience with have a global numbering that can be preserved if one wishes for debugging.</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>