#551: Output metadata from TwoPunctures ------------------------------------+--------------------------------------- Reporter: hinder | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: review Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: EinsteinToolkit thorn | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: TwoPunctures ------------------------------------+---------------------------------------
Comment (by hinder):
!TwoPunctures_Metadata is scheduled in local mode because it needs access to the grid variables E and Ji. Will it have access to these in global mode? If not, which mode should I use? You are right that local mode is not correct - if you have two components on one process, or more than one refinement level, the metadata file will be written more than once.
Additional keys for the metadata file, e.g. those defined in the data format document, could indeed be added, but this should not be done in !TwoPunctures. Eventually there could be a metadata thorn which other thorns register fields with, and it could handle the generic things like simulation name, date, username etc, and write a single metadata file containing all the fields. Or to keep things simple, maybe individual thorns can write metadata files which the user can then merge together (e.g. with cat).
But the immediate need that we have is for the TwoPunctures metadata, so I want to get this implemented as quickly as possible.