[aspect-devel] Will setting 'Tracer weight = 10' improve the performance of the particle generation algorithm on a uniform grid?

[Elbridge Gerry Puckett]

> On Aug 22, 2016, at 7:57 PM, Ngoc Nguyen <ngbnguyen at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> I'm a member of Professor Puckett's Summer REU group working on benchmarking the active particles. 
> 
> We're looking at the *.prm file
> 
>     https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/blob/master/tests/particle_load_balancing_repartition.prm.8.4
> 
> and wondering if setting ' Tracer weight = 10'
> 
>       subsection Tracers
>         set Number of tracers = 100
>         set Time between data output = 1
>         set Load balancing strategy = repartition
>         set Data output format = none
>         set Tracer weight = 10
>         set Integration scheme = euler
>       end
> 
> will improve the performance of the particle generation algorithm on a uniform grid?
> 
> Also, is there any documentation regarding how to best scale the use of particles on a distributed memory cluster?
> 
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Ngoc Nguyen
> 
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