[petsc-users] Partitioning and AO problem

[Jed Brown]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 9:49 AM, "Miguel A. Fernández" <
miguel.fernandez at inria.fr> wrote:

> In any case,  I would say that this usage of the terminology "application
> ordering" is not fully coherent with the discussion of section 2.3.1,
> where (as far as I understood) "application ordering" is supposed to be
> the original ordering of the application data (mesh veticies, dof, etc…)
> before optimal
> distribution of it (or, e.g., by calling the program in a single
> processor).
>

Hmm, I'm not sure how to fix that. You can repartition starting from any
ordering. I think the names "PETSc ordering" and "application ordering" are
often unclear, but I mostly avoid use of AO entirely in favor of more
direct communication.
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