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 libParanumal is funded in part by the US Department of Energy as part of the activities of the [Center for Efficient Exscale Discretizations](http://ceed.exascaleproject.org). 
 
+Why libParanumal ?: the high-order finite-element implementations in libParanumal are __spectrally__ accurate and rely heavily on __ghost__ elements for MPI communications.
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 ### 1. Overview