I'm not sure this is as simple as you make it sound...
Neighbors (the one example I gave) can exist across these precomputed grids, which would need to be accounted for. This is essentially what the role of the index is. So it sounds like you have the right idea, just not fully fleshed out.
For batch processing once I have a set of independent systems, I actually don't think that's the interesting part of this thread, since I could just package up the needed inputs and ship them off to their own cores for all I care. Most of the questions I care about require the relationships between these positions, i.e. Distance and derived metrics.
Neighbors (the one example I gave) can exist across these precomputed grids, which would need to be accounted for. This is essentially what the role of the index is. So it sounds like you have the right idea, just not fully fleshed out.
For batch processing once I have a set of independent systems, I actually don't think that's the interesting part of this thread, since I could just package up the needed inputs and ship them off to their own cores for all I care. Most of the questions I care about require the relationships between these positions, i.e. Distance and derived metrics.