On Jun 14, 2011, at 7:59 PM, Jed Brown wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 02:53, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>  It seems we should provide a DMSDA that is built specifically for staggered 
> grids, with the correct number of "slots" in the correct "locations", it 
> would have appropriate grid hierarchies and interpolation/restriction. Not 
> terribly hard but a bit of basic plumbing code. I would rather have this then 
> try to "tack on" the current DA a bunch more stuff.
> 
> Yeah, though there are many different staggered discretizations so this could 
> end up being a big project. Not conceptually hard, just a lot of code. DMDA 
> is already not especially small.

  DMDA started out small. DMSDA will start out small :-)

  Actually before we do DMSDA we probably should do a code review of DM, then 
of DMDA and slim down DMDA a good amount.

  
   Barry



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