[Yt-dev] yt release discussion

[Stephen Skory]

All,

> https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/issues?status=new&status=open&sort=milestone&milestone=2.3

I'm going to see if I can knock off my task from this list above.
Namely, this one

https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/issue/247/estimates-of-resources-for-parallelism

I think instead of doing a buch of very time-consuming tests and
benchmarks, I'm going to just write up a page that specifically
describes the kinds of parallelism in yt, the sources of CPU time,
memory usage, and disk access, and perhaps some insight in the optimal
numbers of processors and memory. I'll do most of the writing, but I
may call on a few of you to help me fill in the gaps in my knowledge
(volume rendering, light rays/cones, for example). Here's what I've
got.

domain-based parallelism: halo finding, two point functions

object-based parallelism: halo profiler, clump finding,

grid-based parallelism: projections, quantities, (I'll do a search for
_get_grid_objs())

I know I'm missing a bunch of stuff, so could you take a second to
fill in what I can't think of right now? For example, I'm not sure
what the best classification is for volume rendering. Thanks!

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