Cloned SEACAS for EXODUS library with extra build files for internal package management.
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<a NAME="METIS"></a>Nested Dissection by METIS/ParMETIS</h2>
Nested Dissection (ND) is a popular method to compute fill-reducing orderings
for sparse matrices. It can also be used for other ordering purposes.&nbsp;
The algorithm recursively finds a separator (bisector) in a graph,
orders the nodes in the two subsets first, and nodes in the separator last.
In METIS/ParMETIS, the recursion is stopped when the graph is smaller than
a certain size, and some version of minimum degree ordering is applied
to the remaining graph.
<p>METIS computes a (local) ordering of the objects (currently only for serial runs), while
ParMETIS performs a global ordering of all the objects. ParMETIS currently
(version 3.1, supported by Zoltan) requires that the number of processors is a power
of two.
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If ORDER_METHOD=PARMETIS
ParMETIS is called, but if it is METIS, METIS is called.
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<td VALIGN=TOP><b>Order_Method String:</b></td>
<td><b>METIS or PARMETIS</b></td>
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<td><b>Parameters:</b></td>
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<td VALIGN=TOP>&nbsp;&nbsp; See <a href="ug_alg_parmetis.html">ParMETIS</a>.</td>
<td>Note that the PARMETIS options are ignored when METIS is called.&nbsp;</td>
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