[petsc-users] Why my petsc program get stuck and hang there when assembling the matrix?

[Sanjay Govindjee]

Fair enough.

I have only done the estimates/testing for linear and quadratic 
elements, the work horses of large-scale industrial solid-mechanics 
computations.

On 2/26/17 8:30 PM, Jed Brown wrote:
> Sanjay Govindjee <s_g at berkeley.edu> writes:
>
>> I'm not sure it is best to say that "the standard way to handle this" is
>> to partition the elements.  Minimization of communication calls for
>> partitioning the nodes (at the expense of performing extra element
>> computations).
> For high order elements, that entails far more communication (volume).
>
> I think it's fair to say that element partition is by far the most
> common way to implement, though there is certainly a case for working
> only with a nodal partition (depending on the intended solver) when
> using relatively low order elements.

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