<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><br><br>I've just seen in DMPlexCreatePartition that only 'chaco' and 'metis' can be used.<br><br><br><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>De: </b>"Cedric Doucet" <cedric.doucet@inria.fr><br><b>À: </b>petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov<br><b>Envoyé: </b>Lundi 28 Octobre 2013 12:17:22<br><b>Objet: </b>Re: [petsc-users] Partitioner in DMPlexDistribute<br><br><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><br>I was not looking at the latest version of the code (it seems online documentation has not been updated yet).<br>Now, I can see that partitioner is used as an argument of DMPlexCreatePartition.<br>However, there is a new argument: a PetscSF.<br>I have two questions about this new implementation:<br>1. which partitioner can be used?<br>2. how to initialize the new PetscSF argument?<br><br><br><br><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>De: </b>"Cedric Doucet" <cedric.doucet@inria.fr><br><b>À: </b>petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov<br><b>Envoyé: </b>Lundi 28 Octobre 2013 11:25:25<br><b>Objet: </b>[petsc-users] Partitioner in DMPlexDistribute<br><br><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><br>Hello,<br><br>I need to use DMPlexDistribute in a parallel finite element code.<br>I would like to know which partitioner can be used with this function.<br>I saw in an example that chaco is a possibility.<br>I tried to use parmetis instead but I did not manage to do it.<br>Furthermore, I do not see where the input partitioner is used in the source code of DMPlexDistribute.<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Cédric Doucet<br></div></blockquote><br></div></blockquote><br></div></body></html>