[Users] Specifying a directory for simfactory

[Roland Haas]

Hello Maitraya,

there several directories involved. Typically (on a laptop, clusters are
somewhat similar) you will find output in a directory:

/home/Maitraya/simulations/static_tov/output-0000/hydrobase-rho.x.asc

you can change the /home/Maitraya/simulations part by adding a

basedir = <SOME-DIRECTORY-PATH>

option to simfactory/etc/defs.local.ini in the section for your laptop
(or cluster), eg if 

simfactory/bin/sim whomai 

reports "maitrayaslaptop" then you'd ad

[maitrayaslaptop]
basedir = /home/Maitraya/my-simulations

fr the static_tov part you have to edit the par file (static_tov.par)
and look for its out_dir setting which currently likely reads:

ioutil::out_dir = $parfile

(or similar). This causes all output to go into a directory of the same
name as the parameter file (without the .par extension). You can change
this to anything you like eg:

ioutil::out_dir = "stationary tov star"

if you so desire (though spaces are usually a bad idea).

There some very rudimentary documentation that you can find here:

http://simfactory.org/info/documentation/userguide/index.html

though I could not find any explanation of basedir in it unfortunately.

Yours,
Roland

> Dear all,
> 
> I was running the TOV simulation (
> https://docs.einsteintoolkit.org/et-docs/Simplified_Tutorial_for_New_Users).
> 
> While running these two commands:
> 
> ./simfactory/bin/sim submit static_tov
> --parfile=par/static_tov_small.par --procs=1 --walltime=8:0:0
>  ./simfactory/bin/sim show-output --follow static_tov
> 
> I noticed that the simulation is created in a particular directory.
> 
> I want to change this directory to something else. How do I change
> this command ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Maitraya.



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