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Hi, I was trying to do the partition in STKO v3.3.0 but found out the resultant number of partitions was not always the same as my input. To demonstrate the issue, I am attaching a small model for testing purposes. For this model, I would only get 6 partitions even though I have requested 8, and my mesh has 8 elements.
My real model was a staged analysis of a model with large number of elements added after the initial stage. Due to this limitation on the max number of partitions, currently I cannot use all the cores available on my computer. My questions are:
1) What are the internal constraints enforced on the maximum number of partitions I can get?
2) Could the number of partitions go beyond the number of elements I have in the initial stage, i.e. no elements/nodes in some partitions (otherwise I need to add some dummy components)?

Thanks in advance!

Sorry but I don't understand your issue.
In your small model you only have 8 elements and the partitioning algorithm (METIS) may give you less than 8 partitions (1 element per partition is overkilling).
However, if you use a finer mesh this will not be an issue anymore. So what is the issue with the real model?