2 FEM Framework API Reference

Some of the routines in the FEM framework have different requirements or meanings depending on where they are called from. When a routine is described as being ``called from driver'', this means it is called in the parallel context--from driver() itself, any subroutine called by driver(), or from whatever routine is run by the FEM-attached TCHARM threads. When a routine is described as being ``called from init'', this means it is called in the serial context--from init() itself, from any subroutine called from init(), from a routine called by FEM_Update_mesh, or from whatever TCHARM code executes before the FEM_Attach.