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Added a comment pointing out the fact that step-36 is not MPI-ready and a note on...
authoryoung <young@0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d>
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 12:38:52 +0000 (12:38 +0000)
committeryoung <young@0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d>
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 12:38:52 +0000 (12:38 +0000)
git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@20059 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d

deal.II/examples/step-36/doc/intro.dox
deal.II/examples/step-36/doc/results.dox

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@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ function $\Psi(\mathbf x)$ that satisfies a relation of the
 As a consequence, this particle can only exist in a certain number of
 eigenstates that correspond to the energy eigenvalues
 $\varepsilon_\ell$ admitted as solutions of this equation. The
-Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics posits that, if a
+orthodox interpretation of quantum mechanics posits that, if a
 particle has energy $\varepsilon_\ell$ then the probability of finding
 it at location $\mathbf x$ is proportional to $|\Psi_\ell(\mathbf
 x)|^2$ where $\Psi_\ell$ is the eigenfunction that corresponds to this
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@@ -184,4 +184,16 @@ freedom? For example, if the particle were a spin-$1/2$ particle? In
 that case, we may want to start solving a vector-valued problem
 instead.
 
+<li> Our implementation of the deal.II library here uses the
+PETScWrappers and SLEPcWrappers and is suitable for running on serial
+machine architecture. However, for larger grids and with a larger
+number of degrees-of-freedom, we may want to run our application on
+parallel architectures. A parallel implementation of the above code
+can be particuarily useful here since the generalized eigenspectrum
+problem is somewhat more expensive to solve than the standard problems
+considered in the tutorial up-to-now. Fortunately, modifying the above
+program to be MPI complient is a relatively straightforward
+procedure. A sketch of how this can be done can be found in @ref
+step_17 "step-17".
+
 </ul>

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