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Thanks Matt, I think I'll start by making a small program as a proof of concept. Then, if it works I'll implement it in my code and I'll be happy to share it too :-) Miguel On Aug 4, 2024, at 3: 30 AM, Matthew Knepley <knepley@ gmail. com>
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<div>Thanks Matt, I think I'll start by making a small program as a proof of concept. Then, if it works I'll implement it in my code and I'll be happy to share it too :-)</div>
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<div>Thanks again Matt, that makes a lot more sense !!</div>
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<div>I don't think we need this last step. We can just remove those ghost particles for the next step I think.</div>
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<div>What you describe seems to me the ideal approach. </div>
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<div>1) Add a particle field 'ghost' that identifies ghost vs owned particles. I think it needs options OWNED, OVERLAP, and GHOST</div>
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<div>I would do it another way. I would allocate the particles with no overlap and set them up. Then I would identify the halo particles, mark them as OVERLAP, call DMSwarmMigrate(), and mark the migrated particles as GHOST, then unmark the OVERLAP particles.
Shoot! That marking will not work since we cannot tell the difference between particles we received and particles we sent. Okay, instead of the `ghost` field we need an `owner rank` field. So then we</div>
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<div>Now we can identify ghost particles by the `owner rank`</div>
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<div>If that so, how to do the communication between the ghost particles living in the rank i and their “real” counterpart in the rank j.</div>
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<div>Algo, as an alternative, what about:</div>
<div>1) Use an IS tag which contains,<span> </span><span>for each rank,</span><span> a </span>list of the global index of the neighbors particles outside of the rank. </div>
<div>2) Use <span style="color: rgb(75, 81, 1); font-family: Menlo, Monaco, "Courier New", monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">VecCreateGhost t</span>o create a new vector which contains extra local space for the ghost components
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<div>This is essentially what Migrate() does. I was trying to reuse the code.</div>
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I am implementing a Molecular Dynamics (MD) code using the DMSWARM interface. In the MD simulations we evaluate on each particle (atoms) some kind of scalar functional using data from the neighbouring atoms. My problem lies in the parallel implementation of the model, because sometimes, some of these neighbours lie on a different processor.
This is usually solved by using ghost particles. A similar approach (with nodes instead) is already implemented for other PETSc mesh structures like DMPlexConstructGhostCells. Unfortunately, I don't see this kind of constructs for DMSWARM. Am I missing something?
I this could be done by applying a buffer region by exploiting the background DMDA mesh that I already use to do domain decomposition. Then using the buffer region of each cell to locate the ghost particles and finally using VecCreateGhost. Is this feasible? Or is there an easier approach using other PETSc functions.</pre>
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<div>This is feasible, but it would be good to develop a set of best practices, since we have been mainly focused on the case of non-redundant particles. Here is how I think I would do what you want.</div>
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<div>2) At some interval identify particles that should be sent to other processes as ghosts. I would call these "overlap particles". The determination</div>
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<div>There is one problem in the above algorithm. It does not allow sending particles to multiple ranks. We would have to do this</div>
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