<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>On 10 Aug 2017, at 10:06, Maitraya Bhattacharyya <<a href="mailto:maitraya.linux@gmail.com">maitraya.linux@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>Is there a way to change the default directory where simulations are saved and also change the number of cores ?<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>You can change the directory. It is called "basedir" and it is set in simfactory/etc/defs.local.ini. If it's not there already, you can add an entry</div><div><br></div><div>[machine]</div><div><br></div><div>basedir = /path/to/simulations</div><div><br></div><div>where 'machine' is your local machine name. You can determine your local machine name with "simfactory/bin/sim whoami".</div><div><br></div><div>If you want to run a job on a certain number of cores, you can use the options</div><div><br></div><div>--procs N</div><div><br></div><div>when you submit the simulation.</div><div><br></div><div>You may need to modify simfactory/mdb/machines/<machine>.ini and increase ppn to 4.</div><div><br></div><div>In very recent versions of simfactory, this is now set automatically when you run sim setup, but it's likely that in the version you have, it is set to 1, which prevents you from running on more than one core by default.</div><div><br></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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