Domain Decomposition for Particle Methods on the Sphere

We present an algorithm for efficient parallelization of particle methods when the domain is the surface of a sphere. Such applications typically arise when dealing with directional data. We propose a domain decomposition scheme based on geometric partitioning that provides domains suitable for practical implementation. This algorithm has the advantage of being fast enough to be applied dynamically, and at the same time provides good partitions, comparable in quality to those produced by spectral graph partitioning schemes.

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