also having a Tiled representation of all rank data, not just per patch
dealing tile ghosts exchange for fields (overlaps? per cell?)
diagnostics tiles to patch dumps
restart with tiles?
refinement/coarsening/selection : indexing data can hit multiple tiles, do we have an abstraction of the indexing that fetches data the right tile under the hood...
modify the "transformers" to operate (sequentially at this point) per tile views instead of per patch