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<H2><A NAME="SECTION00031000000000000000">
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Basic Nomenclature</A>
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Our computational model implies that the data allocation on the
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parallel distributed memory machine is guided by the structure of the
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physical model, and specifically by the discretization mesh of the
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PDE.
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Each point of the discretization mesh will have (at least) one
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associated equation/variable, and therefore one index. We say that
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point <IMG
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ALT="$i$"> <EM>depends</EM> on point <IMG
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ALT="$j$"> if the equation for a
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variable associated with <IMG
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ALT="$i$"> contains a term in <IMG
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ALT="$j$">, or equivalently
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if <IMG
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ALT="$a_{ij} \ne0$">.
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After the partition of the discretization mesh into <EM>sub-domains</EM>
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assigned to the parallel processes,
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we classify the points of a given sub-domain as following.
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<DT><STRONG>Internal.</STRONG></DT>
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<DD>An internal point of
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a given domain <EM>depends</EM> only on points of the
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same domain.
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If all points of a domain are assigned to one
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process, then a computational step (e.g., a
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matrix-vector product) of the
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equations associated with the internal points requires no data
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items from other domains and no communications.
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<DT><STRONG>Boundary.</STRONG></DT>
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<DD>A point of
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a given domain is a boundary point if it <EM>depends</EM> on points
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belonging to other domains.
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<DT><STRONG>Halo.</STRONG></DT>
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<DD>A halo point for a given domain is a point belonging to
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another domain such that there is a boundary point which <EM>depends</EM>
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on it. Whenever performing a computational step, such as a
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matrix-vector product, the values associated with halo points are
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requested from other domains. A boundary point of a given
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domain is usually a halo point for some other domain<A NAME="tex2html3"
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HREF="footnode.html#foot210"><SUP>2</SUP></A>; therefore
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the cardinality of the boundary points set denotes the amount of data
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sent to other domains.
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<DT><STRONG>Overlap.</STRONG></DT>
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<DD>An overlap point is a boundary point assigned to
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multiple domains. Any operation that involves an overlap point
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has to be replicated for each assignment.
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Overlap points do not usually exist in the basic data
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distributions; however they are a feature of Domain Decomposition
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Schwarz preconditioners which are the subject of related research
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work [<A
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HREF="node129.html#2007c">4</A>,<A
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HREF="node129.html#2007d">3</A>].
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We denote the sets of internal, boundary and halo points for a given
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subdomain by <IMG
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Each subdomain is assigned to one process; each process usually
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owns one subdomain, although the user may choose to assign more than
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one subdomain to a process. If each process <IMG
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ALT="$i$"> owns one
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subdomain, the number of rows in the local sparse matrix is
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<DIV ALIGN="CENTER"><A NAME="fig:points"></A><A NAME="272"></A>
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<CAPTION ALIGN="BOTTOM"><STRONG>Figure 2:</STRONG>
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Point classfication.</CAPTION>
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This classification of mesh points guides the naming scheme that we
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adopted in the library internals and in the data structures. We
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explicitly note that ``Halo'' points are also often called ``ghost''
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points in the literature.
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