Re: [Libmesh-users] Fwd: Memory usage in 3D mesh generation

2013-10-29 Thread John Peterson
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 4:08 PM, John Peterson wrote: > > > > Ben, it looks like we currently base our partitioning algorithm choice >> solely on the number of partitions... Do you recall if PartGraphKway is >> any more memory efficient than the PartGraphRecursive algorithm? If so, >> perhaps we

Re: [Libmesh-users] Fwd: Memory usage in 3D mesh generation

2013-10-29 Thread Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311)
Thanks, John. I've had limited access today by hopefully can get caught up and contribute something tonight/tomorrow. -Ben On Oct 29, 2013, at 5:09 PM, "John Peterson" wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 2:48 PM, John Peterson wrote: > >> >> I just checked out the hash immediately prior to

Re: [Libmesh-users] Fwd: Memory usage in 3D mesh generation

2013-10-29 Thread John Peterson
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 2:48 PM, John Peterson wrote: > > I just checked out the hash immediately prior to the latest Metis/Parmetis > refresh (git co 5771c42933), ran the same tests again, and got basically > the same results on the 200^3 case. > > So I don't think the metis/parmetis refresh int

Re: [Libmesh-users] Fwd: Memory usage in 3D mesh generation

2013-10-29 Thread John Peterson
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 12:31 PM, John Peterson wrote: > > > > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:19 AM, John Peterson wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Cody Permann wrote: >> >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 5:54 AM, ernestol wrote: >>> >>> > I am using an cluster with 23 node for a total of 1

Re: [Libmesh-users] Fwd: Memory usage in 3D mesh generation

2013-10-29 Thread John Peterson
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:19 AM, John Peterson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Cody Permann wrote: > >> >> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 5:54 AM, ernestol wrote: >> >> > I am using an cluster with 23 node for a total of 184 cores, and each >> node >> > additionally has 16GB of RAM. I was thi

Re: [Libmesh-users] Fwd: Memory usage in 3D mesh generation

2013-10-29 Thread Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311)
Could you manually use the space filling curve partitioner (hard code?) to see if that is better behaved? On Oct 29, 2013, at 12:19 PM, "John Peterson" wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Cody Permann wrote: > >> >> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 5:54 AM, ernestol wrote: >> >>> I am using a

Re: [Libmesh-users] Fwd: Memory usage in 3D mesh generation

2013-10-29 Thread John Peterson
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Cody Permann wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 5:54 AM, ernestol wrote: > > > I am using an cluster with 23 node for a total of 184 cores, and each > node > > additionally has 16GB of RAM. I was thinking that the problem maybe is in > > the code. Because if I ru

[Libmesh-users] Fwd: Memory usage in 3D mesh generation

2013-10-29 Thread Cody Permann
Copying to libmesh-users -- Forwarded message -- From: Cody Permann Date: Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:32 AM Subject: Re: [Libmesh-users] Memory usage in 3D mesh generation To: ernestol libMesh doesn't generate meshes "in parallel", or to be more specific, it doesn't spread the work