[Users] problem with first example simulation with ETK

Hal Finkel hfinkel at anl.gov
Fri Jan 13 12:14:43 CST 2012


On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 09:41 +0100, Ian Hinder 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.

As of a couple of months ago, the answer was still no.

 -Hal

> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > 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
> > > > > 
> > > > > --
> > > > > Erik Schnetter <schnetter at cct.lsu.edu>
> > > > > http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~eschnett/
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> Ian Hinder
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