Johan Hoffman wrote: >> This is good juncture at which re-focus on important goals for a > hopefully not too distant next release. Three priorities that I see are: >> - New build system. >> >> - Improved support for parallel assembly and solve. The class Function > will probably need the most work. Good goals would be to get Poisson and > elasticity demos running in parallel. > > I thought the Poisson problem was running, and showing good parallel > scaling? Or maybe that was a test outside the dolfin-dev demos? >
Assembly of the matrix is working. Garth > We (Nicklas) have now a preliminary distributed parallel implementation > running for Poisson and a Unicorn flow solver. The structure is still > quite messy and the partitioning is based on Metis, but we expect it to be > integrated with DOLFIN in the coming months, hopefully before the summer. > When the structure is more clear we can discuss on the mailing list how to > best incorporate this into DOLFIN. Apart from the structure of the > implementation we are also focusing on distributed local mesh refinement. > >> - Testing of QuadratureFunction and adding corresponding demos. >> >> Another point is to add Trilinos as a supported linear algebra back end. > How does this tie up with closer links to PyCC? >> Garth > > - Something else that I think is important is to include geometry in > DOLFIN. We were to start such a project before Christmas, but we lost the > msc student that was supposed to work on this. I would expect that we > restart this later this spring. Basically we need to import CAD-geometry > (or other geometry descriptions), create an internal DOLFIN format > (typically based on NURBS or similar) with a Geometry-class. Typical > functionality needed is then to project a point onto the surface geometry. > > /Johan > > >> _______________________________________________ >> DOLFIN-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.fenics.org/mailman/listinfo/dolfin-dev >> > > > > _______________________________________________ DOLFIN-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.fenics.org/mailman/listinfo/dolfin-dev
