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\chapter{Introduction}
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This document provides an introduction to data partitioning
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and load balancing using the Zoltan Toolkit (version 3.1).
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Zoltan is a parallel toolkit for load balancing
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(and several other combinatorial scientific computing tasks)
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targeted to the high performance computing community.
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This tutorial only covers load balancing,
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and other capabilities in Zoltan are barely mentioned.
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The Zoltan library is written in C but can be
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linked with C, C++ and Fortran90 applications.
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It requires MPI to run in parallel.
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Most of the examples in this tutorial are C language examples.
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In Chapter~\ref{cha:lb} we
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discuss the load balancing problem in general and describe
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common algorithms, which are also supported in Zoltan.
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Zoltan's role in addressing the load balancing problem is to
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efficiently partition,
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or repartition, the problem data across mulitple processes while an
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application is running, when requested to do so by the application.
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In Chapter~\ref{cha:using} we briefly explain the interface
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through which your application employs Zoltan. This topic is
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convered in more detail in the
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Zoltan User's Guide available at
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\url{http://cs.sandia.gov/Zoltan/ug_html/ug.html}.
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An example can be worth a thousand words, so you may wish to
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skip this chapter and look through the examples in the last section first.
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The final chapter of this document (~\ref{cha:ex}) provides
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source code examples for simple applications that use Zoltan.
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These examples may be found in the \textbf{examples} directory
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of the Zoltan source code. Zoltan is open source and freely available.
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You will find additional documents and publications at the
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Zoltan web site at \url{http://cs.sandia.gov/Zoltan/}.
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The User's Guide is a very useful reference and provides
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many details we could not cover here.
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