[Dune] Repartitioning/dynamic load balancing in Dune

[Timo Koch]

Dear Dune developers and users,

we are currently looking into a geothermal application case where we could profit from dynamic load balancing to optimise the processor load in parallel MPI simulations.
As far as I can see from the docs dynamic load balancing should be possible with dune-uggrid (horizontal and vertical) and dune-alugrid (horizontal).
However, there also has been a discussion on the Dune Dev Meeting 2018 (https://www.dune-project.org/community/meetings/2018-11-devmeeting/ <https://www.dune-project.org/community/meetings/2018-11-devmeeting/>) about adding a “repartition” method to the grid interface, so I’m not quite sure what is currently working.

I found https://gitlab.dune-project.org/core/dune-grid/-/blob/master/dune/grid/utility/parmetisgridpartitioner.hh <https://gitlab.dune-project.org/core/dune-grid/-/blob/master/dune/grid/utility/parmetisgridpartitioner.hh> which seems to be grid agnostic and the corresponding test just call
grid->loadBalance(part, 0);
where part seems to be just a vector of target ranks for each entity.
Unfortunately, we can’t use ParMETIS due to the license restrictions.

My questions would be
1) Is the way implemented in the loadbalance test in dune-grid the way to currently do dynamic load balancing and will it work for dune-uggrid and dune-alugrid? Possible restrictions?
2) What is the rational behind the new “repartition” interface and which problems will it solve?
3) Does anyone have accessible/shareable application or testing code that uses dynamic load balancing via the dune grid interface? Ideally not using ParMETIS but e.g. Scotch or something else.

Already thanks for any answers in advance!

Timo 


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