[Users] Users Digest, Vol 184, Issue 14
Peter Diener
diener at cct.lsu.edu
Thu Aug 7 09:26:12 CDT 2025
Dear Iosif,
Yes, @ALLOCATION@ will be read from the corresponding * .ini file if not
specified with the --allocation=YOUR_ALLOCATION command line option. And
yes the command line will override the information in the .ini file.
However, I would rather place the allocation information in
simfactory/etc/defs.local.ini than in the <machine>.ini file. Multiple
users with different allocations can use the same machine, so that
information belongs in the user specific .ini file.
There is no list of macros documented anywhere, unfortunately.
Cheers,
Peter
Assistant Professor Research
Center for Computation & Technology and
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Louisiana State University
On Sat, 2 Aug 2025, IOSIF PANAGIOTIS wrote:
> Dear Leo,
>
> Thank you for your answer and for sharing your experience.
> No, I hadn't received a reply to my question yet.
>
> So it seems that macros such as @ALLOCATION@ (or any other SimFactory
> placeholder) can be changed via :
> * either editing the <machine>.ini file
> * or specifying the relevant command line option (i.e., among the ones
> that come up when doing "./simfactory/bin/sim --help").
>
> And if I understand correctly, it seems that whatever is specified as a
> command-line option for sim takes priority over what is specified in the
> configuration files.
> Is this correct?
>
> If yes, then these placeholders could be simply left alone when editing the
> submitscript and runscript, and set via the respective sim command-line
> option when submitting a simulation. Right?
>
> And to reiterate part of my initial question:
> * If these @FOO@ macros for SimFactory are documented somewhere, I would
> be grateful if you could point me to the relevant page.
> * If such documentation does not exist, then it is also ok, and this
> empirical understanding will have to suffice for now. I was just asking
> to make sure I was not missing some obvious documentation source.
>
> Best,
> Panayotis
>
> ____________________________________________________________________________
> From: Users <users-bounces at einsteintoolkit.org> on behalf of Leonardo
> Werneck <wernecklr at gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2025 7:26 PM
> To: users at einsteintoolkit.org <users at einsteintoolkit.org>
> Subject: Re: [Users] Users Digest, Vol 184, Issue 14
> Dear Iosif,
>
> I hope this message finds you well.
>
> I'm not sure you already got a reply, but in case you haven't, my
> understanding is that placeholders like @FOO@ are there to indicate things
> you need to change yourself, manually.
>
> So when you see something like:
>
> #SBATCH -A @ALLOCATION@
>
> then it means you should replace @ALLOCATION@ with the name of your
> allocation in the specific cluster.
>
> Someone else can correct me if this is not correct, but that's how I usually
> handle these.
>
> Cheers,
> Leo
>
>
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> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 10:43:36 +0000
> From: IOSIF PANAGIOTIS <PANAGIOTIS.IOSIF at units.it>
> To: Einstein Toolkit Users <users at einsteintoolkit.org>
> Subject: [Users] SimFactory placeholder macros
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> Hi,
>
> I have been following this document,
> https://einsteintoolkit.org/seminars/2022_02_24/index.html , to
> set up ET on my cluster, working also on some example
> configuration files.
>
> While preparing the submit and run scripts, I wanted to check
> the description of the @FOO@ macros that SimFactory uses.
>
> I checked these places but found no information.
>
> *
> https://simfactory.bitbucket.io/simfactory2/userguide/ (no
> mention of macros)
> *
> https://docs.einsteintoolkit.org/et-docs/Simulation_Factory_Advanced_Tutori
> al (1 mention of the @USER@ macro and a pointer to a section#Macros<https://docs.einsteintoolkit.org/et-docs/Simulation_Factory_Advance
> d_Tutorial#Macros> that seems missing)
> *
> https://docs.einsteintoolkit.org/et-docs/Configuring_a_new_machine
> (there is no information on the submitscript and runscript)
>
> So I would like to ask:
>
> If e.g. I have this line in my submitscript:
> #SBATCH -A @ALLOCATION@
>
> Where is @ALLOCATION@ "read" from?
>
> My guess is that this is specified in the .ini file in this
> line:
> allocation = <project_account>
>
> Could you confirm if this is the case?
>
> Is there another source of documentation (that I might have
> missed) describing what these @FOO@ placeholders do?
>
> Best regards,
> Panagiotis
>
>
> -------------------
> Panagiotis Iosif
> postdoctoral researcher
> Department of Physics, University of Trieste
> Via Alfonso Valerio 2, Trieste 34127
> Italy
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> From: Luciano Combi <lcombi at perimeterinstitute.ca>
> To: "users at einsteintoolkit.org" <users at einsteintoolkit.org>
> Subject: [Users] Issue with ReadInterpolate
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> Hi people,
>
> I have used ReadInterpolate successfully for different
> applications in the past. I'm now trying to use it to
> interpolate onto a new grid that has 5 ghost zones i.e.:
>
> CoordBase::boundary_size_x_lower = 5
> CoordBase::boundary_size_y_lower = 5
> CoordBase::boundary_size_z_lower = 5
> CoordBase::boundary_size_x_upper = 5
> CoordBase::boundary_size_y_upper = 5
> CoordBase::boundary_size_z_upper = 5
> Driver::ghost_size = 5
> GRHydro::GRHydro_stencil = 5
> But I'm getting this error:
>
> CCTK_Proc569.err <==
> while executing schedule bin ReadInterpolate_ReadData, routine
> ReadInterpolate::ReadInterpolate_Read
> in thorn ReadInterpolate, file/home/mvxcombi/ET_Zelmani/Cactus/arrangements/EinsteinInitialData/ReadInter
> polate/src/read.c:559:
> -> Skipping integer variable 'SPACEMASK::space_mask it=335925
> tl=0 rl=0 c=569'. Do not know how to interpolate integers.
> ERROR from host bcn1814.usr.hlrn.de process 569
> while executing schedule bin ReadInterpolate_ReadData, routine
> ReadInterpolate::ReadInterpolate_Read
> in thorn ReadInterpolate, file/home/mvxcombi/ET_Zelmani/Cactus/arrangements/EinsteinInitialData/ReadInter
> polate/src/interpolate.cc:130:
> -> There were 70227 points in 27 variables that could not be
> set.
> cactus_etk_devel:/home/mvxcombi/ET_Zelmani/Cactus/arrangements/Carpet/Carpet/src/helpers.cc:
> 275: int Carpet::Abort(const cGH*, int): Assertion `0' failed.
> Rank 569 with PID 1675935 received signal 6
> Writing backtrace to AIC_interp/backtrace.569.txt
> The original grid has 3 ghost zones. I'm using the following
> parfile:
> # What to interpolate
> # -------------------
> ReadInterpolate::files =
> "checkpoint.chkpt.it_335925"
> ReadInterpolate::max_number_of_read_variables = 30
> ReadInterpolate::only_these_datasets = ":Y_e, :rho,
> :temperature, :vel, :Ax, :Ay, :Az, :psi6phi, :kxx, :kxy, :kxz,
> :kyy, :kyz, :kzz, :gxx, :gxy, :gxz, :gyy, :gyz, :gzz, :betax,
> :betay, :betaz, :alp"
> ReadInterpolate::minimum_reflevel = 0 # Default
> ReadInterpolate::maximum_reflevel = 1000 # Default
>
> # Interpolator settings
> # ---------------------
> ReadInterpolate::epsilon = 1.e-12 #2 # Default
> ReadInterpolate::interpolator_half_width = -1 # Default,
> use cctk_nghostzones
> ReadInterpolate::interpolator_name = "Lagrange polynomial
> interpolation"
> ReadInterpolate::interpolator_pars = "
> order = 3
> boundary_off_centering_tolerance = {1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1.}
> boundary_extrapolation_tolerance = {1.e-12 1.e-12 1.e-12
> 1.e-12 1.e-12 1.e-12}
> "
>
> # Fixing the read-in data
> # -----------------------
> ReadInterpolate::shift_read_datasets_by[0] = 0.
> ReadInterpolate::shift_read_datasets_by[1] = 0.
> ReadInterpolate::shift_read_datasets_by[2] = 0.
>
> ReadInterpolate::enforce_symmetries_after_reading = no #
> Default
> ReadInterpolate::fix_cell_centered_origins = no #
> Default
>
> Any suggestions on how to solve this issue?
>
> Thanks a lot!!
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