<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 02:58, Mohamad M. Nasr-Azadani <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mmnasr@gmail.com">mmnasr@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div>How does DACreate3d() partition the domain among processors? </div><div>Is it based on the minimizing the surface between the processors? Or it is just a simple x-y-z order? </div></blockquote></div><br><div>It tries to produce a "squarish" partition based on divisibility of the number of processes. It will only partition in one direction if you use a prime number of processes, for example.</div>