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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hi,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Could I please get some help getting simfactory to run on a cluster? </span></div>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If I do sim setup, it will create a </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">machine.ini
with only one node. </span></span>
<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The problem is that a cluster has many
nodes, and each node has a different name and sim </span><span style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important"><span style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">will
refuse to run on a node with a different name. </span></span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The instructions read:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"It is likely that you will have to further customize this file</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The instructions also let me know that:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"the setup command </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">will also create a new machine definition for the local machine in </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">simfactory/mdb/machines.
You may also have to add extra information </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to this file."</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">I understand that I need to make a , or to modify a current one, where I can specify the number of nodes.
How</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"> do I do that?</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was instructed to use stampede2-knl.ini and try to modify it, but it looks intimidating and I am not sure how to do that. Shall I ask for help from the cluster manager so that I don't
get the specifications wrong?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do I need to manually buid a *cfg, *sub and *run as well? </span></div>
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Lastly, I once this is accomplished, how do I launch simfactory tto make sure it can engage more than a node in the run? </div>
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thanks,</div>
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Maria</div>
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