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Garth Wells (garth-wells) wrote : Re: [Bug 1088175] [NEW] LinearOperator does not work in parallel

On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Anders Logg <email address hidden> wrote:
> I can take a look but object to the description. It is indeed written
> to work in parallel. It has also been tested to work in parallel
> before.
>

Tested where?

It's clear from the code that it will only work in parallel for very
special cases.

Garth

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> Anders
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> On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 01:00:59PM -0000, Garth Wells wrote:
>> Public bug reported:
>>
>> LinearOperator is not written to work in parallel. It does not respect
>> the parallel layout of matrices and vectors. This leads to crashes.
>>
>> The unit test has been disabled in parallel.
>>
>> ** Affects: dolfin
>> Importance: Undecided
>> Assignee: Anders Logg (logg)
>> Status: New
>>
>> ** Changed in: dolfin
>> Assignee: (unassigned) => Anders Logg (logg)
>>
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