[Users] Specifying a directory for simfactory

[Roland Haas]

Hello Maitraya,

sorry to hear this did not help.

You did not have to recompile since basedir is only used by the
simulation factory, which makes testing this a bit faster. 

I am afraid I am not sure on top of my head what could cause this.

So more questions:
* this is on you laptop? or on a cluster (which one)?
* would you mind attaching your simfactory/etc/defs.local.ini file,
  please?
* what does simfactory/bin/sim whoami report?
* it would be good to provide the output of
  simfactory/bin/sim print-mdb-entry $(simfactory/bin/sim whoami | \
  awk '{print $NF}') 
  which should output all information that simulation factory has about
  the machine it is running on
* please copy and past the full command line used for
  simfactory/bin/submit as well as its output eg:
--8<--
rhaas at 8992d193:~/Cactus $ simfactory/bin/sim submit static_tov --parfile par/static_tov.par
Warning: simulation "static_tov" does not exist or is not readable
Parameter file: /home/rhaas/postdoc/gr/cactus/Zelmani/par/static_tov.par
Skeleton Created
Job directory: "/home/rhaas/simulations2/static_tov"
Executable: "/home/rhaas/postdoc/gr/cactus/Zelmani/exe/cactus_bns_all"
Option list: "/home/rhaas/simulations2/static_tov/SIMFACTORY/cfg/OptionList"
Submit script: "/home/rhaas/simulations2/static_tov/SIMFACTORY/run/SubmitScript"
Run script: "/home/rhaas/simulations2/static_tov/SIMFACTORY/run/RunScript"
Parameter file: "/home/rhaas/simulations2/static_tov/SIMFACTORY/par/static_tov.par"
Assigned restart id: 0
Executing submit command: exec /home/rhaas/simulations2/static_tov/output-0000/SIMFACTORY/SubmitScript < /dev/null > /dev/null 2> /dev/null & echo $!
Submit finished, job id is 28547
--8<--

Yours,
Roland

> Hi Roland,
> 
> I tried changing the basedir and recompiling ET. However, when I ran the
> TOV simulation, it still outputs in the old directory.
> 
> Please help,
> Maitraya.
> 
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 7:32 PM, Roland Haas <rhaas at illinois.edu> wrote:
> 
> > 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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