[Gmsh] parallel mesh generation

Christophe Geuzaine geuzaine at acm.caltech.edu
Sat Aug 3 00:01:01 CEST 2002


> 9Z<:C6 wrote:
> 
> I'm a graduate student at Seoul National University, Korea.
> 
> I'm interested in Gmsh.
> 
> I want to parallelize mesh generation.
> 
> Our laboratory has Cluster computers.
> 
> So, I'm going to use Gmsh as mesh generator in Cluster computers.
> 
> That is, I hope the part of Gmsh Geometry is distributed to other
> nodes.
> 
> But , as  Geometry is distributed to mesh genertion,  I can't mesh
> generation automatically at once in whole nodes.
> 
> I think the problem is user interface.
> 
> I want to know how to mesh generation for Gmsh  in Cluster computers.
> 

There is no parallelized meshing algorithm in Gmsh at the moment. You
could use the non-graphical version of gmsh (either "gmsh-batch" or
"gmsh -3") to distribute the meshing of separate parts of your model on
several nodes, though.

Christophe

-- 
Christophe Geuzaine

Tel: (626) 395-4552    http://www.geuz.org
Fax: (626) 578-0124    mailto:geuzaine at acm.caltech.edu