On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 05:51:34PM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> On 2013-12-18 17:43, Anders Logg wrote:
> >On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 01:03:19PM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> >>Chris has been working on adding a layer of ghost cells/mesh
> >>entities to a DOLFIN Mesh when running in parallel. The branch
> >>is at:
> >>
> >>https://bitbucket.org/fenics-project/dolfin/branch/chris/ghost-mesh
> >>
> >>The motivations for this are:
> >>
> >>  1. Support DG methods in parallel.
> >>  2. Communication-less assembly in parallel with MPI
> >>(GenericTensor::apply() will involve no communication).
> >>  3. Simpler construction of dofmaps (less MPI communication).
> >>  4. Simple detection of entities on a domain boundary.
> >>  5. Eliminates the need for a boundary mesh to build a
> >>distributed mesh.
> >
> >Wow. Sounds great!
> >
>
> To get this working, it would be helpful if we could remove the
> random access from MeshEntityIterator, see
> https://bitbucket.org/fenics-project/dolfin/issue/178. I don't think
> it is needed.

Yes, definitely. I don't understand why it is there.

--
Anders
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