I may have mentioned this before, but SCOTCH and ParMetis are available as packages for Debian and the upcoming Ubuntu release (Intrepid), although the build system test for SCOTCH needs to be enhanced to pick it up. ParaView has also been packaged.
Garth Anders Logg wrote: > FYI: SCOTCH can now do parallel graph partitioning (haven't tried it yet). > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > Scotch 5.1 is out! > From: > François PELLEGRINI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: > Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:27:41 +0200 > To: > "N.A. DIGEST" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: > "N.A. DIGEST" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: > François PELLEGRINI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > We announce the release, as libre/free software, of revision 5.1 of > the > SCOTCH and PT-SCOTCH software package and library for sequential > and > parallel graph partitioning, sequential mesh/hypergraph partitioning > and > static mapping, and sequential and parallel sparse matrix block ordering. > > Important features > ================== > > PT-Scotch now provides an interface for parallel graph partitioning > and > static mapping. At the time being, target architectures other than > complete > graphs, whether weighted or not, are not taken into account, such that > only > parallel graph partitioning is available, not full parallel static > mapping. > Parallel static mapping will be available in a future release. > > Parallel graph partitioning is performed to date by the means of > recursive > parallel graph bipartitioning, not direct k-way partitioning. > PT-Scotch is > therefore slower than direct parallel k-way partitioners, yet yields > high > quality partitions. > > > What is SCOTCH > ============== > > SCOTCH is a project carried out at the Laboratoire Bordelais de > Recherche en > Informatique (LaBRI) of the Universite Bordeaux I. > It is part of project ScAlApplix of INRIA Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest. Its > goal is > to apply graph theory, with a ``divide and conquer'' approach, to > scientific > computing problems such as graph partitioning, static mapping, and > sparse > matrix ordering. > > > How to get SCOTCH > ================= > > Scotch can be freely downloaded, under the terms of the CeCILL-C > license. > To ease the development, diffusion, and circulation of information > regarding > the SCOTCH project, most of its resources are now hosted on the > InriaGforge > platform provided by INRIA. Please refer to the SCOTCH web page at : > > http://www.labri.fr/~pelegrin/scotch/ > > for more information. People interested in the SCOTCH project are > welcome to > subscribe to the "scotch-announces" mailing list at : > > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/mailman/listinfo/scotch-announces > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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
