[MOAB-dev] PETSc/MOAB/mbpart

[Lorenzo Alessio Botti]

Hi all, this could be a starting point. 
It’s similar to mbpart but based on METIS.
The Makefile is very rudimental, the correct paths should be set manually!


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> On 27 Mar 2015, at 18:29, Vijay S. Mahadevan <vijay.m at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Gerd,
> 
>> I use MOAB with PETSc (and DMMoab) and build it as PETSc external package (via '--download-moab=1').
>> This works fine, however, not all MOAB tools are built in the process. Unfortunately, the
>> Zoltan external package is broken and as a result mbpart is not being built.
> 
> The PETSc configuration with --download-moab currently only uses HDF5
> and NetCDF is PETSc has been configured with these packages also
> through either --download-PACKAGE or --with-PACKAGE-DIR semantics. I
> don't believe there is currently a configuration setting that
> accomodates the Zoltan linkage through this workflow.
> 
> You could however configure/compile MOAB with HDF5/NetCDF/Zoltan
> separately, install that somewhere and specify
> --with-moab-dir=/PATH/TO/MOAB. This is what I usually do since our
> development efforts use feature branches in both MOAB and PETSc
> simultaneously.
> 
>> Could someone clarify the Zoltan dependence of mbpart and if there's a way to build it
>> with just Parmetis?
> 
> Currently, mbpart depends on Zoltan interfaces to link against
> Metis/Parmetis and it is one of our top priority items to directly
> create an interface to at least Metis in the coming month so that
> building Zoltan for mbpart is not a requirement. Unfortunately until
> then, there isn't an elegant way to make this happen.
> 
> Vijay
> 
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Gerd Heber <gheber at hdfgroup.org> wrote:
>> I use MOAB with PETSc (and DMMoab) and build it as PETSc external package (via '--download-moab=1').
>> This works fine, however, not all MOAB tools are built in the process. Unfortunately, the
>> Zoltan external package is broken and as a result mbpart is not being built.
>> Could someone clarify the Zoltan dependence of mbpart and if there's a way to build it
>> with just Parmetis?
>> 
>> Thanks for your help.
>> G.
>>