Dynamic Octree Load Balancing Using Space-Filling Curves ∗

The Zoltan dynamic load balancing library provides applications with a reusable object oriented interface to several load balancing techniques, including coordinate bisection, octree/space filling curve methods, and multilevel graph partitioners. We describe enhancements to Zoltan’s octree load balancing procedure and its distributed structures that improve performance of the space filling curve (SFC) traversals by Williams College Department of Computer Science Technical Report CS-03-01 Corresponding author. E-mail: terescoj@cs.williams.edu, Tel: (413)597-4251, Fax: (413)597-4250

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