itaps-parallel Notes from today's meeting

[Mark Shephard]

Jason,

It is a strong function of how one would support the mesh in parallel. I 
  do know how I would do partitioning and dynamic re-partitioning (to 
account for contact evolution) for efficient parallel simulation using 
iMeshP's FMDB implementation and the issue of where the mesh instance is 
defined creates no problem at all.

Mark

Jason Kraftcheck wrote:
> Mark,
> 
> I think that having one iMesh instance per Part would be problematic for
> "contact"-type problems.  If I understand the nature of the problem
> correctly, there are two partitioning of the mesh: one that distributes
> volume elements and one that distributes 2D elements on interfaces.  If
> there were multiple (for simplicity lets say two) iMesh instances for a
> single process where one contains the volume elements and one contains the
> 2D elements then there would be no way to obtain information about the
> relation between the 2D elements and the volume elements.
> 
> - jason
>