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- What is PAMGEN useful for?
- How many elements can PAMGEN generate?
- Does PAMGEN scale well?
- What kinds of elements can PAMGEN generate?
- Does PAMGEN perform any communication within its routines?
- What kinds of domain decomposition does PAMGEN provide?
What is PAMGEN useful for?
PAMGEN is useful for providing a parallel unstructured finite-element analysis code with a huge mesh. TopHow many elements can PAMGEN generate?
The number of elements PAMGEN can generate is limited by the size of a 32 bit integer (just above two billion). TopDoes PAMGEN scale well?
PAMGEN performs no internal inter-processor communication and so scales very well. TopWhat kinds of elements can PAMGEN generate?
4 node quads in 2D and 8 node hexes in 3D. TopDoes PAMGEN perform any communication within its routines?
No. TopWhat kinds of domain decomposition does PAMGEN provide.
PAMGEN provides several decomposition options. The most useful is a simple bisection strategy that slices the mesh in different topological directions. This strategy works best when the number of processors has many prime factors. A user defined slicing strategy allows control which topological direction are sliced. A random decomposition method is provided as a stress test for analysis codes. Top
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