itaps-parallel Results of Dec 3 phone conference

[Onkar Sahni]

I have attached a document (which we prepared for ITAPS bootcamp at RPI in
Sept. '07) that provides typical functionalities/services used by four
types of parallel mesh-based applications.

Please look into section 7 under "Examples". Feel free to send us
questions. Also note that this document was created before our (currently
going) work on ITAPS parallel interface.

- Onkar

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> -  We developed a specific definition for neighboring part:
>    "Given an entity type E, Part A and Part B are neighbors if they share
> at
> least one entity of type E."
> I will add the entity type argument to the appropriate functions.
>
> -  We discussed the EntitySet questions at length.  No one was excited
> about
> adding an entire set of functions that duplicate entity set functions but
> with an additional part handle argument.  However, alternatives might be
> burdensome to the application.  To give us a better sense of what the
> application would need to do without new functions, Mark Miller agreed to
> write some pseudo-code showing how an application would get the following
> information given the currently understood partition interface functions:
> Given a mesh instance, a partition instance, a part handle for part A and
> an
> entity set handle for entity set B, return all entities in Part A that are
> in entity set B.
>
> Mark also volunteered to eventually write pseudo-code for the entire
> interface.  Onkar and Tim have parts of the pseudo-code already written;
> that would just need revision based on more recent discussion.
>
> -  We agreed to meet again on Thurs, Dec. 13, at 9am PST.
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