Ah, I see.  Well, I guess the best place to start is to do a little 
benchmarking, to see if the initial partitioning has a significant effect.  We 
may be talking about a few percentage points here.


On Dec 16, 2010, at 7:32 PM, Wolfgang Bangerth wrote:

> 
>> I wouldn't even describe my case as problematic.  The partitioning works
>> fine, it just struck me as unusual.  My only thought would be to
>> pre-partition the coarse mesh using, e.g., METIS, and then perform a
>> Cuthill-McKee ordering within the partitions.  Are there any continuity
>> requirements for the space filling curve, or can we rearrange coarse cells
>> arbitrarily?
> 
> We can arrange them as we want. But pre-partitioning with METIS doesn't work 
> because different coarse mesh cells will be refined differently, and so the 
> coarse-mesh partitions will be wildly ill-partitioned once you adaptively 
> refine.
> 
> Best
> W.
> 
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