What is the memory overhead?

Using preCICE
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What is the memory overhead introduced for coupling solvers using preCICE?

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This consists of many parts:

  1. The configuration state
    preCICE is a configuration-driven library. This involves bookkeeping at run-time.
  2. The mesh and its data
    vertices and connectivity information will result in additional memory consumption.
    Note that each vertex holds data that needs to be received, mapped, and send.
  3. The mapping methods
    Mapping methods strongly vary in memory overhead. nearest-neighbour and nearest-projection create a spacial index tree. RBF mappings preallocate additional memory for solving systems of equations.
    We are working on a (close-to) zero-overhead solution.