User: www-push Date: 2016/06/13 10:01 AM

Modified: /about/gallery/gw150914/ compile_and_run.php

Log: gw150914: Add instructions for looking at the simulation output

File Changes:

Directory: /about/gallery/gw150914/ ===================================

File [modified]: compile_and_run.php Delta lines: +29 -2 =================================================================== --- about/gallery/gw150914/compile_and_run.php 2016-06-13 15:00:50 UTC (rev 1560) +++ about/gallery/gw150914/compile_and_run.php 2016-06-13 15:01:08 UTC (rev 1561) @@ -28,10 +28,37 @@ <p>Compile Cactus:</p> <pre>./simfactory/bin/sim build --thornlist=thornlists/GW150914.th</pre> <p>Submit the simulation:</p> - <pre>simfactory/bin/sim create-submit GW150914_28 --define N 28 --parfile par/GW150914.rpar --procs 128 --walltime 24:00:00</pre> + <pre class="wrap">simfactory/bin/sim create-submit GW150914_28 --define N 28 --parfile par/GW150914.rpar --procs 128 --walltime 24:00:00</pre> <p style="background-color: yellow">This doesn't work on a cluster; it complains that the machine's default sourcebasedir doesn't exist, so you need to run GetComponents in sourcebasedir for your machine, but how can the user find this? </p> <p> -When the simulation starts running, it will write output data into GW150914_28 in your simulations directory. +When the simulation starts running, it will write output data into +GW150914_28 in your simulations directory (you can find the +simulations directory from the "Job directory" output of the +create-submit command). </p>

+<p style="background-color: yellow">Is there a better way of finding +this?</p> + +<p>You can see the status of the simulation with</p> +<pre>sim list-simulations GW150914_28</pre> +<p>It will say FINISHED when the simulation has finished. You can see the output of the simulation with</p> +<pre>sim show-output GW150914_28</pre> +<p style="background-color: yellow">This doesn't work for me on datura, even though list-simulations says RUNNING; I get</p> +<pre>Warning: Job is not running, cannot retreive exechost +================================================================================ +The job's Formaline output is: +================================================================================ +(file does not exist) +================================================================================ +The job's stdout is: +================================================================================ +(file does not exist) +================================================================================ +The job's stderr is: +================================================================================ +(file does not exist) +================================================================================ +</p> + <?php include_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/global/footer.php');?>