returned to the application.  Thus, only lightweight objects are
migrated internally between levels, not the (larger and more costly)
application data.  More details about the fields of the intermediate
structure and how the are used can be found in the Zoltan distribution
in <I>hier/README</I>.<P>

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<H3>
Data Structure Definitions</H3>

<P>There is one major data structure in HIER, defined in
<i>hier/hier.h</i>.  The <I>struct HierPartParamsStruct</I> includes
all information needed by the hiera