Re: [Libmesh-users] question about distributed mesh

2016-08-10 Thread Roy Stogner
On Wed, 10 Aug 2016, Manav Bhatia wrote: > will do. Thanks! If you want to chime in or just read my thoughts on the design questions, the issue where I've been documenting them is https://github.com/libMesh/libmesh/issues/1028 The first third of the design got merged in https://github.com/libMe

Re: [Libmesh-users] question about distributed mesh

2016-08-10 Thread Manav Bhatia
will do. Thanks! -Manav > On Aug 10, 2016, at 5:43 PM, John Peterson wrote: > > > > On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Manav Bhatia > wrote: > Seems like DistributedMesh::add_extra_ghost_elem() does the trick. > > Roy is also in the midst of generalizing the al

Re: [Libmesh-users] question about distributed mesh

2016-08-10 Thread John Peterson
On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Manav Bhatia wrote: > Seems like DistributedMesh::add_extra_ghost_elem() does the trick. > Roy is also in the midst of generalizing the algorithms used to control which elements are ghosted where, so you may want to keep an eye on what he's doing... -- John --

Re: [Libmesh-users] question about distributed mesh

2016-08-10 Thread Manav Bhatia
Seems like DistributedMesh::add_extra_ghost_elem() does the trick. -Manav > On Aug 10, 2016, at 5:17 PM, Manav Bhatia wrote: > > Hi, > > Is it possible to tell/force DistributedMesh to maintain a copy of a > selected set of elements across all processors? > > If this is currently is

Re: [Libmesh-users] dtk and petsc

2016-08-10 Thread John Peterson
On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Manav Bhatia wrote: > Hi, > >If I intend to use dtk from inside libMesh, am I constrained to using > trillions for the system linear solver, or can I also have access to petsc > in addition to dtk? > You should be able to build libmesh with both PETSc and Tri

[Libmesh-users] dtk and petsc

2016-08-10 Thread Manav Bhatia
Hi, If I intend to use dtk from inside libMesh, am I constrained to using trillions for the system linear solver, or can I also have access to petsc in addition to dtk? Thanks, Manav -- What NetFlow Analyzer can do

[Libmesh-users] question about distributed mesh

2016-08-10 Thread Manav Bhatia
Hi, Is it possible to tell/force DistributedMesh to maintain a copy of a selected set of elements across all processors? If this is currently is not a part of the functionality, is there a quick and dirty way of accomplishing the same? I would greatly appreciate your comments. Tha