[Users] problem with first example simulation with ETK

[Jose Fiestas Iquira]

Yes, trajectories and wave forms would be enough for now. Which are
the names of this files? Many of the .asc files have data like kxx,
kxy, kxz, etc. Is there any description of them?

Thanks,
Jose

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Ian Hinder <ian.hinder at aei.mpg.de> wrote:
>
> On 12 Jan 2012, at 23:46, Jose Fiestas Iquira wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I run the tutorial and found other interesting examples like the
> McLachlan tool for Binary Black Holes.
>
> Regarding the McLachlan tool,
> Could somebody help me finding a description of the output? Is all
> contained in the .asc files? I would like to visualize it.
>
>
> Hi Jose,
>
> What sort of output do you want to visualise?  Cactus thorns typically
> output "lightweight" information such as BH trajectories and waveforms as
> ASCII, and more heavyweight data -- like gridfunctions -- as HDF5.  For the
> trajectories (from thorn Puncture Tracker) and waveforms (from Multipole)
> you can use gnuplot or anything that can read standard ASCII output to
> visualise them.  For gridfunctions in HDF5 format, I think the easiest way
> to get started is to use VisIt, for which there is a Carpet plugin (though
> installing VisIt is sometimes not so easy!).
>
> Does anyone know if the Carpet plugin is distributed with VisIt yet?  I
> believe that was the intention.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
> Jose
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Jose Fiestas Iquira <jafiestas at lbl.gov>
> wrote:
>
> Thanks to Erik for advise. ETK example simulation run successfully.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Jose Fiestas Iquira <jafiestas at lbl.gov>
> wrote:
>
> Right, it looks good now:
>
>
> ./simfactory/bin/sim list-simulations
>
>   static_tov              [ACTIVE (RUNNING), restart 0000, job id 595490]
>
>
> Let see how it looks when it finishes. The example was set to 8 hours.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jose
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Erik Schnetter <schnetter at cct.lsu.edu>
> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Jose Fiestas Iquira <jafiestas at lbl.gov>
> wrote:
>
>
> The only thing is that now
>
> $ ./simfactory/bin/sim list-simulations
>
> returns
>
>
> Error: unknown command list-simulation
>
> Aborting Simfactory.
>
>
> Did you really type "list-simulations", and the error message says
>
> "list-simulation" (without the final "s")?
>
>
> -erik
>
>
> --
>
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