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Reference step-40.
authorbangerth <bangerth@0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d>
Sun, 24 Oct 2010 16:07:35 +0000 (16:07 +0000)
committerbangerth <bangerth@0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d>
Sun, 24 Oct 2010 16:07:35 +0000 (16:07 +0000)
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deal.II/examples/step-17/doc/intro.dox

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@@ -62,12 +62,9 @@ Note, however, that the only data structures we parallelize are matrices and
 vectors. We do, in particular, not split up the <code>Triangulation</code> and
 <code>DoFHandler</code> classes: each process still has a complete copy of
 these objects, and all processes have exact copies of what the other processes
-have. Parallelizing the data structures used in hierarchic and unstructured
-triangulations is a very hard problem, and we do not attempt to do so at
-present. It also requires that many more aspects of the application program
-have to be changed, since for example loops over all cells can only include
-locally available cells. We thus went for the path of least resistance and
-only parallelized the linear algebra part.
+have. Doing so is slightly, though not much more complicated (from a user
+perspective, it is <i>much</i> more complicated under the hood) to achieve and
+we will show how to do this in step-40.
 
 
 

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