On 13 Mar 2014, at 14:01, Anders Logg <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 07:55:55AM -0600, Jed Brown wrote: >> "Garth N. Wells" <[email protected]> writes: >>>> Adding it to Variable would work. It would cost nothing and be easy to >>>> implement. >>>> >>> >>> It would not work at all. MPI initialisation must be collective. > > I don't understand - how would it be different from today when MPI is > initialized via the base class PETScObject? >
I think you need to read a book on MPI :). Until very recently, we assumed that PETScObjects were distributed, i.e. creation was a collective operation. Garth > -- > Anders _______________________________________________ fenics mailing list [email protected] http://fenicsproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics
