Minutes 19 February 2007
Present: Travis, Shane, Karl.
Boundary conditions
- Travis trying to work out the best way to specify the types of boundary conditions for each element side.
Thoughts for the future
- "80 Core Intel research chip":http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128924-c,intel/article.html
suggests multithreading is going to be important.
- Multithreading saves on memory use because no data needs to be duplicated across processes.
- Travis found implementing time-stepping algorithms using LibMesh much easier that modifying cm.
- Travis is giving a Friday morning talk at the end of March to demonstrate the ease of using LibMesh.