[Users] Specifying a directory for simfactory

[Maitraya Bhattacharyya]

Dear Roland,

I fixed the problem. I just had to add [<whoami name>]
 to the defs.local.ini file. Earlier it just had [default].

Thanks,
Maitraya.

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 11:08 PM, Roland Haas <rhaas at illinois.edu> wrote:

> 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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