We've achieved great scaling out to 12,000 cores with ~250 million dofs. At that size though things do get more difficult. You have to use ParallelMesh along with a parallel mesh / solution format (like NEMESIS).
It is definitely possible to go further... But that's the largest set of procs we had access to. Derek Sent from my iPad On Jan 24, 2012, at 10:10 PM, Bao Kai <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I want to know some information on the scalability of Libmesh. How > many processors has Libmesh been scaled to? Is there any document on > how the libmesh work on some supercomter, such as Blue Gene? > > Libmesh appears to be very good, while the scalability is one of my > important concerns. > > Thank you very much. > > > Best Regards, > Kai > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d > _______________________________________________ > Libmesh-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Libmesh-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-users
