The third Gmsh workshop took place in Lanzarote on March 29-31, 2017.

Web site: http://sites.uclouvain.be/gmshworkshop2017

Wednesday March 29

• Christophe's talk about new CAD features, Gmsh 3.0 and the API
• Jon's talk about Git
• Bug fix session

Tuesday March 30

• Cédric's talk about Pampa
• Jean-François' talk about Hextreme
• Jeanne's talk about the topology of hex decompositions
• Pierre-Alexandre's talk about parametrizations
• Discussion and roadmap
  • Gmsh 3.0 (April 2017): cf. Christophe's talk
  • Gmsh 3.1 (Autumn 2017):
    • embryo of C API
    • remove old GModelFactory
    • make it clear that the wrappers (Python/Java) are unsupported and for developers only
  • Gmsh 3.2:
    • remove old reparametrization code
    • remove old 3D initial mesher
    • Pampa interface for distributed (re)meshing?
  • Gmsh 4.0:
    • distribute C API and DLL
    • re-write 2D meshing routines
    • distribute multi-threaded version using openmp? or move to std::threads? or tbb?
    • link with Hextreme algorithms :-)
  • Open questions:
    • linear solver (keep PETSc?)
    • Linux font rendering
    • how well will the web interface work?

Friday March 31

• Social day

Group photo