On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 16:47:38 +0200 (CEST), Tim Kroeger 
<[email protected]> wrote:
> As far as I understand, this allows me to specify a partition of X2 
> into some subsets and then select solvers/preconditioners for these 
> subsets as well as a global method to combine them.  However, I assume 
> that this will *not* move dofs to different processors, will it?  So I 
> can't use this to improve the load balancing, can I?

Yes, you can.  The index sets have a communicator, their distribution
specifies the partition to use (so you can move dofs around at will).

> I guess that this might be in particular a useful thing to do if X2 
> naturally consists of more than one connected component.  This might 
> (in my application) in fact be the case, but not canonically, and 
> figuring this out might be complicated, and I also assume that 
> SuperLU_DIST anyway identifies the connected components, so that, for 
> the moment, I don't think I will need this.

Yup, depends on the problem and the method you are using.

Jed

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