itaps-parallel Questions about iMeshP

[Mark Beall]

If someone could email me a paper on that work (or similar work that  
has the same needs), I'd appreciate it.

mark

On Dec 18, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Tim Tautges wrote:

> The best example, brought up by both Karen and me IIRC, is of large- 
> deformation transient dynamics with contact, where the FE solution  
> of the dynamics is solved on 3d elements on one partition, and the  
> contact solution is solved on faces on a different partition.  Many  
> believe it was this capability that made truly scalable parallel FEM  
> with contact even possible.  See e.g.
>
> Transient dynamics simulations: parallel algorithms for contact  
> detection and smoothed particle hydrodynamics,
> Proceedings of the 1996 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing, 1996.
>
> That's just one reference, there are many others for that particular  
> work.
>
> I think the details of multiple *active* partitions still need some  
> work, both in use cases and in how they behave under iMeshP.   
> Normally I wouldn't advocate such an unexplored thing being part of  
> the initial interface definition, but in this case I think it's an  
> important enough capability that it's justified.
>
> - tim
>
> Mark Beall wrote:
>> As a more general context to the questions that Saurabh asked, the  
>> main questions we have about iMeshP are issues related to having  
>> multiple partitions. Although we won't be supporting that for now  
>> (since our software doesn't support that), it would be helpful in  
>> understanding that need if someone could give some examples of how  
>> this functionality would be used.
>> mark
>
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