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<br><div><div>On Aug 21, 2011, at 11:15 AM, Erik Schnetter wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Ian<br><br>This functionality exists; the parameter Carpet::enable_no_storage provides it.<br><br>You could use the simulation factory to add this parameter to a<br>parameter file; simfactory calls this "appending" when you provide a<br>parameter file.<br><br>-erik<br><br>On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Ian Hinder <<a href="mailto:ian.hinder@aei.mpg.de">ian.hinder@aei.mpg.de</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On 14 Aug 2011, at 05:41, Erik Schnetter wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Scott<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">No, simfactory does not know that. Given Cactus's dynamic schedule,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">and in particular given AMR, it is basically impossible to predict<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">this.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Simfactory does, however, know internally how much memory each system provides.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">In my runs, the grid structure could be predicted based on the parameter file, as I don't regrid initially based on any computed data. The memory usage is essentially constant within about 20% for the duration of the run. I spend a lot of time trying different numbers of cores until the run fits, and it seem that this is something which could be estimated. It would be very useful to be able to run Cactus on my workstation with a production parameter file, but have it not actually allocate the memory. It could then tell me the total amount of memory that it would have allocated, and simfactory could use this to tell me how many cores to run on. One could even imagine a future where this was done automatically, given a desired memory utilisation rate. Is this really impossible with Carpet? It that because of conceptual problems, or technical? I think this would be a wonderful ability to have, and would save many people a large amount of time.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">-erik<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Scott Hawley <<a href="mailto:scott.hawley@belmont.edu">scott.hawley@belmont.edu</a>> wrote:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Does simfactory automatically know how much memory I'm going to request from the host machine?<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I've looked in the Tutorial (perl) and the Advanced Tutorial, and haven't found such an option to set.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Thanks.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">--<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Scott H. 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