Re: [Libmesh-users] create a parallel mesh

[Roy S. <roy...@ic...>]

On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Derek Gaston wrote:

> On Dec 9, 2010, at 1:49 PM, Roy Stogner wrote:
>
>> You may find it easier to do the mesh creation from another program
>> that can save to Nemesis format and read it into libMesh from that?
>> IIRC the mesh reading is currently serialized, but it's done in chunks
>> (which are freed after being distributed off the root node) to
>> conserve memory, so if memory-per-node is your limitation then that
>> will probably get around it.
>
> Nemesis should read each chunk on it's respective processor...

Ah, does it?  I stand corrected; I didn't write any of the Nemesis I/O
code and it's apparently been too long since I looked at it.
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Roy