Ola Skavhaug wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Johan Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> 
>      >
>      >
>      > Johan Hoffman wrote:
>      >>>
>      >>> Anders Logg wrote:
>      >>>> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 02:45:41PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>      >>>>> It would be useful to lay out a plan for tackling DofMaps.
>     Getting
>      >>>>> this
>      >>>>> right is the key to parallel assembly, assembly optimisations and
>      >>>>> applying Dirichlet boundary conditions by eliminating
>     Dirichlet dofs
>      >>>>> from the global system.
>      >>>>>
>      >>>>> I'm happy to take a look, but I'll need some time because
>     I've lost
>      >>>>> my
>      >>>>> overview of DofMaps. If someone else is already on top of it,
>     I'd be
>      >>>>> happy to provide feedback.
>      >>>>>
>      >>>>> Garth
>      >>>> I won't have time to look at it until after the summer and I
>     haven't
>      >>>> started.
>      >>>>
>      >>>> Anyway, I think we should wait until after the next release
>     until we
>      >>>> start messing with the dof maps.
>      >>>>
>      >>>> Are there any issues we need to sort out before releasing 0.8? I'm
>      >>>> thinking about a new release some time this or next week.
>      >>>>
>      >>>> One is to fix the bug in DirichletBC, but other than that?
>      >>>>
>      >>> Now would be a good time for a release so I can start messing with
>      >>> DofMaps.
>      >>>
>      >>> Garth
>      >>
>      >> Has anything more been done about the DofMap design? During the
>     summer
>      >> Niclas has extended to general elements his adaptive algorithm for
>      >> distributed parallel computing, so we are now ready to start messing
>      >> with
>      >> the DofMaps in order to implement his algorithm in DOLFIN.
>      >>
>      >
>      > It has been given some thought, but no changes have been made in the
>      > code yet.
> 
>     Ok. Any threads on the list to point to where this is discussed?
> 
>     If you have something already, I would suggest making it
>      > publicly available somewhere for feedback before starting work on
>     DOLFIN.
> 
>     It is a refinement and generalization of the thesis work of Niclas
>     Jansson
>     which was discussed on the list before the summer. Is is outlined in his
>     report:
>     
> http://www.nada.kth.se/utbildning/grukth/exjobb/rapportlistor/2008/rapporter08/jansson_niclas_08051.pdf
> 
>     My announcement here was to initiate a discussion of the detailed
>     implementation, and to check if other DOLFIN-people were working on
>     similar stuff to avoid double/conflicting development.
> 
>     /Johan
> 
> 
> Very good. We were about to start on this task, so now a good point in 
> time to join forces.
> As a starting point, it would be nice to agreeing on what data is needed 
> in addition to the partitioned meshes to construct the global dofmap. 
> I.e. which MeshFunctions to construct during the mesh paritioning 
> process. Are you people using the same {T,S,F} input as Anders describes 
> in Algorithm 5 in his paper?
> 

Which paper?

Garth

> 
> Ola
>  
> 
> 
>      >
>      > Garth
>      >
>      >
>      >> I see Anders report referenced in the code, where the mapping scheme
>      >> described is fairly close to what Niclas has implemented,
>     although there
>      >> are some differences. We will sit down today to sum up what we think
>      >> needs
>      >> to be done, and then we can discuss this on the mailing list.
>      >>
>      >> /Johan
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >
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