I'm glad we agree that we should make the distribution work with
default parameters, and I agree there is more than one way to
accomplish that.
If you can find a way to have it default to something more sensible,
great. If not, I'm happy to have it behave like simple stripe if the
user do
Kyle,
Lets step back a second. What's the actual bug that motivated this?
My impression from your email was that a default value of num_groups=2
didn't work in a single server environment, only because when it tried
to divide num_servers (1) by num_groups (2) it got 0.
That's completely
Having it work with default parameters doesn't necessarily mean making
those default parameters exactly like simple stripe. Our best all
around solution is to fix this bug with a simple check in the 2d code
and set the default parameters to something reasonable for a 2d
distribution in t
