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Program:   Visualization Toolkit
Module:    vtkPOrderStatistics.h

Copyright (c) Ken Martin, Will Schroeder, Bill Lorensen
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// .NAME vtkPOrderStatistics - A class for parallel univariate order statistics
// .SECTION Description
// vtkPOrderStatistics is vtkOrderStatistics subclass for parallel datasets.
// It learns and derives the global statistical model on each node, but assesses each
// individual data points on the node that owns it.

// .NOTE: It is assumed that the keys in the histogram table be contained in the set {0,...,n-1}
// of successive integers, where n is the number of rows of the summary table.
// If this requirement is not fulfilled, then the outcome of the parallel update of order
// tables is unpredictable but will most likely be a crash.
// Note that this requirement is consistent with the way histogram tables are constructed
// by the (serial) superclass and thus, if you are using this class as it is intended to be ran,
// then you do not have to worry about this requirement.

// .SECTION Thanks
// Thanks to Philippe Pebay from Sandia National Laboratories for implementing this class.

#ifndef __vtkPOrderStatistics_h
#define __vtkPOrderStatistics_h

#include "vtkOrderStatistics.h"

//BTX
#include <vtkstd/vector> // STL Header
//ETX

class vtkMultiBlockDataSet;
class vtkMultiProcessController;

class VTK_INFOVIS_EXPORT vtkPOrderStatistics : public vtkOrderStatistics
{
 public:
  static vtkPOrderStatistics* New();
  vtkTypeMacro(vtkPOrderStatistics, vtkOrderStatistics);
  void PrintSelf(ostream& os, vtkIndent indent);

  // Description:
  // Get/Set the multiprocess controller. If no controller is set,
  // single process is assumed.
  virtual void SetController(vtkMultiProcessController*);
  vtkGetObjectMacro(Controller, vtkMultiProcessController);

  // Description:
  // Execute the parallel calculations required by the Learn option.
  virtual void Learn( vtkTable* inData,
                      vtkTable* inParameters,
                      vtkMultiBlockDataSet* outMeta );

 protected:
  vtkPOrderStatistics();
  ~vtkPOrderStatistics();

  vtkMultiProcessController* Controller;
 private:
  vtkPOrderStatistics(const vtkPOrderStatistics&); // Not implemented.
  void operator=(const vtkPOrderStatistics&); // Not implemented.
};

#endif
