<div dir="ltr">Dear Matthew,<div><br></div><div>This is great news!</div><div>For my part, I would be mostly interested in the parallel input interface. Sorry for that... </div><div>Indeed, in our application, we already have a parallel mesh data structure that supports hybrid meshes with parallel I/O and distribution (based on the MED format). We would like to use a DMPlex to make parallel mesh adaptation.</div><div> As a matter of fact, all our meshes are in the MED format. We could also contribute to extend the interface of DMPlex with MED (if you consider it could be usefull).</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Nicolas</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le mar. 21 sept. 2021 à 21:56, Matthew Knepley <<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com">knepley@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 10:31 AM Karin&NiKo <<a href="mailto:niko.karin@gmail.com" target="_blank">niko.karin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear Eric, dear Matthew,<div><br></div><div>I share Eric's desire to be able to manipulate meshes composed of different types of elements in a PETSc's DMPlex. </div><div>Since this discussion, is there anything new on this feature for the DMPlex object or am I missing something?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks for finding this!</div><div><br></div><div>Okay, I did a rewrite of the Plex internals this summer. It should now be possible to interpolate a mesh with any</div><div>number of cell types, partition it, redistribute it, and many other manipulations.</div><div><br></div><div>You can read in some formats that support hybrid meshes. If you let me know how you plan to read it in, we can make it work.</div><div>Right now, I don't want to make input interfaces that no one will ever use. We have a project, joint with Firedrake, to finalize</div><div>parallel I/O. This will make parallel reading and writing for checkpointing possible, supporting topology, geometry, fields and</div><div>layouts, for many meshes in one HDF5 file. I think we will finish in November.</div><div><br></div><div> Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div> Matt</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks,</div><div>Nicolas</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le mer. 21 juil. 2021 à 04:25, Eric Chamberland <<a href="mailto:Eric.Chamberland@giref.ulaval.ca" target="_blank">Eric.Chamberland@giref.ulaval.ca</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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while playing with DMPlexBuildFromCellListParallel, I
noticed we have to <br>
specify "numCorners" which is a fixed value, then gives a
fixed number <br>
of nodes for a series of elements.<br>
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<div>You can't with that function. It would be much mich more
complicated if you could, and I am not sure</div>
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would need index information to offset into the</div>
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to some extent so that all processes know what</div>
<div>the others are doing. Possible, but complicated.</div>
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<div>Maybe I can help suggest something for what you are
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<p>Yes: we are trying to partition our parallel mesh with PETSc
functions. The mesh has been read in parallel so each process
owns a part of it, but we have to manage mixed elements types.</p>
<p>When we directly use ParMETIS_V3_PartMeshKway, we give two arrays
to describe the elements which allows mixed elements.</p>
<p>So, how would I read my mixed mesh in parallel and give it to
PETSc DMPlex so I can use a PetscPartitioner with DMPlexDistribute
?</p>
<p>A second goal we have is to use PETSc to compute the overlap,
which is something I can't find in PARMetis (and any other
partitionning library?)</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Eric<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Eric<br>
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Professionnel de recherche<br>
GIREF/Université Laval<br>
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