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<a name="GEOM"></a>Geometric (Coordinate-based) Partitioners</h2>

Geometric partitioners divide data into parts based on the physical
coordinates of the data.  Objects assigned to a single part tend to be
physically close to each other in space.  Such partitioners are very useful for
applications that don't ha