• Registered: 10-02-2009
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Topic: parmetis

Dear Borek,

When installing oofem, I have parmetis installed. Now I would like to use parmetis to partion a mesh. Could you give an instruction or an example on how to implement it? Thanks,

Best Regards,
Xuejian

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  • bp
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  • Registered: 02-03-2007
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Re: parmetis

Dear Xuejian,

if you just want to decompose a mesh, I would rather use metis instead of parmetis. Parmetis provides basically the same functionality, but in parallel. The metis library installation comes with a standalone programs for mesh partitioning (partnmesh (for node-cut, prefered) and partdmesh (for element-cut)) that on input expect the mesh and produce the partitioning on output. Read metis manual, that describes their usage and input format as well.

Borek

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