Developer's Guide 

The Zoltan Team

Past Zoltan Contributors

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Introduction and General Principles

Philosophy of Zoltan
Coding Principles in Zoltan

Include files
Global Variables
Function Names
Parallel Communication
Memory Management
Errors, Warnings and Return Codes

Zoltan Quality Assurance

Zoltan Distribution

CVS
Layout of Directories
Compilation and Makefiles

Zoltan Interface and Data Structures

Interface Functions
ID Data Types
Data Structures

Services (to simplify new algorithm development)

Parameter Setting Routines
Parallel Computing Routines
Common Functions for Querying Applications
Hash Function
Timing Routines
High-Level Timing Services: ZOLTAN_TIMER
Debugging Services

Adding New Load-Balancing Algorithms to Zoltan

Load-Balancing Interface Routines
Load-Balancing Function Implementation
Data Structures
Memory Management
Parameters
Part Remapping

Migration Tools

FORTRAN Interface

C++ Interface

References

Appendix: Using the Test Drivers zdrive, zCPPdrive and zfdrive

Introduction
Running the Test Drivers
Adding New Algorithms

Appendix: Visualization of Geometric Partitions

2D problems with gnuplot
3D problems with vtk_view
Off-screen rendering with vtk_write
Other file formats

Appendix: Using the Test Script test_zoltan

Appendix: Recursive Coordinate Bisection (RCB)

Appendix: Recursive Inertial Bisection (RIB)

Appendix: Graph Partitioning (ParMETIS and Jostle)

Appendix: Hypergraph Partitioning (PHG)

Appendix: Refinement Tree

Appendix: Hilbert Space_Filling Curve (HSFC)

Appendix: Handling Degenerate Geometries