itaps-parallel Mesh Instances

[Tim Tautges]

Devine, Karen D. wrote:
> Hi, Mark.
> 
> Thanks for your email contributing to this discussion.  (Thanks to Carl,
> too!)
> 
> It is funny how differently people can read the same email.  I saw Carl's
> response as an additional use-case, adding, as he said, complexity but not
> providing an answer to my questions about mesh instances.  I agree that for
> Carl's example, it is natural to store many submeshes in a single database.
> But I keep coming back to the example of a loosely-coupled physics
> simulation on multiple distinct meshes, where I think having multiple mesh
> instances is more natural.
> 
> 

Maybe more natural for low-order coupling where you're just using those 
two components, but when you start adding other functionality and 
components I think this becomes unwieldy.

- tim

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