[mpas-developers] Zoltan support in MPAS

Doug Jacobsen jacobsen.douglas at gmail.com
Mon Apr 15 11:42:02 MDT 2013


Hey Michael,

I think it's fine to remove this. I don't know of anyone here who uses
Zoltan.

Doug


On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Michael Duda <duda at ucar.edu> wrote:

> I've not heard any objections to removing the Zoltan code, but just in
> case folks were particularly busy last week, I'll wait until later this
> week before starting to remove this code from the trunk.
>
> Regards,
> Michael
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 05:11:50PM -0600, Michael Duda wrote:
> > Hi, All.
> >
> > The MPAS framework currently has a number of hooks to call the Zoltan
> > package to reorder cells, edges, and vertices in an attempt to improve
> > cache reuse; however, the code does not currently build with Zoltan,
> > and I suspect it has been a couple of years since anyone has tried to
> > do so. In the interest of clearing out unused or unusable code ahead of
> > the initial MPAS release, I'd like to propose the idea of eliminating
> > all of the Zoltan hooks in the MPAS code. Should there be any interest
> > in future in trying out Zoltan, I think it would probably be a good
> > idea to re-implement the functionality from scratch anyway to better
> > fit with our current initialization sequence. What do you all think
> > about getting rid of the Zoltan code in MPAS?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Michael
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