Well, that's excellent news (albeit slightly embarrassing to you I suppose :-P )
Looking forward to hearing your results. Jonathan On 9/3/06, John Dehart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, > > Got it! I'm sorry, but in my mind I was blaming alchemi (as usual it was > 'operator error'). Anyway, The 300 second delay I was noticing before the > manager admitted the job was finished was due to Pro Engineer. There is a > setting in the the 'proe1.psf' file forcing the timeout of the 'nsmd.exe' > process. Amazingly enough the value was '300'. As a note, on a single > machine this is not an issues and I am not sure why, but for some reason the > nasd.exe will not exit under a perl system process within the grid. > > That was a hard one as I'm new to ProE WildFire. > > I have successfully run a batch job with ProE, Patran, ADAMS and DAKOTA on > your grid. In the morning I'll turn on as many machines as I can and let you > know the results. > > John > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Jonathan Mitchem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: John Dehart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Anand, Vaitheeswaran (IE10)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 12:06:08 AM > Subject: Re: [Alchemi-users] Alchemi and Engineering Analysis softwares > > Personally, I'd rather you keep this to the list... both because I find it > interesting, and also because I think it would be valuable for archival > purposes, whether or not anyone else here finds it interesting right now. > > Jonathan > > > On 8/29/06, John Dehart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you like we can pull this offline since its not really alchemi related. > If the others are interested in using alchmi in an engineering app then you > guys let me know and I'll keep this thread (engineering apps) in this group, > else, sorry to clutter the list. > > Anyway, I use ProE in conjunction with dakota to perform Monte Carlo > analysis on mechanisms. I utilize Pro/Program to provide programming > functionality to the model. I then build a 'trail' file for proe that will > (in batch mode) open a model and regenerate to the programmed parameters by > reading a data file (no toolkit programming). > > Dakota rips off 1000 samples and I convert those to a alchemi XML task file > through a vb script. Send the task out to the grid for regeneration and > measurements (stress, time or what ever else I'm looking for), when > complete, I fetch the finished jobs back into the dakota folder for post > processing. > > This is basically how I use any of the main engineering programs (ansys, > nastran, adams.....I'm a mechanical, can you tell?). I can run more than one > program by submitting a Perl file with the appropriate system calls and use > the result of one call in the next, then return a final looped results. I > have included a sample loop below. The AN_DRV is the Perl script I spoke > about, the data .dat is created by dakota. Understanding that you have to > have enough licenses to run this on a lot of machines at the same time. > > John > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: "Anand, Vaitheeswaran (IE10)" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: John Dehart <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: [email protected]; > [email protected] > > Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 8:33:49 AM > Subject: RE: [Alchemi-users] Alchemi and Engineering Analysis softwares > > > Hi John, > > Thanks for the detailed response. > > I will try it out and update the group also. > > One thing that interested me more in your response is using Alchemi with > ProE. Can you elaborate more on that? > > Regards > > V Anand > > > > > From: John Dehart [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 8:50 PM > To: Anand, Vaitheeswaran (IE10) > Cc: [email protected]; > [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Alchemi-users] Alchemi and Engineering Analysis softwares > > Anand, > > I am currently using alchmei with Ansys, Adams, ProE and Dakota... among > others. I have been using Condor and wanted to give the .net platform a go. > Since I'm just starting with Alchmi I am spending most of my time trying to > fix a delay issues with the thread return. (for some reason my threads are > delayed by 300 seconds on most of my computers). > > Anyway to make a short story long, I am using this software with Ansys . > Give me a couple of weeks and I'll publish my work to the group. > > In the mean time feel free to ask any questions and I'll try to answer. I'm > betting you are going to ask how to get this to run with Ansys.... I'll > layout the steps I take below. > > 1) Develop an APDL script that will read a 'data.dat' file and preform some > operation with in ansys. I usually walk thought the gui with my job and then > save the .lgw file. > > 2) Edit the .lgw file to perform some post processing and to export a data > file for your use or further processing. You will have to add the job number > to the end of the file name to keep it from getting overwritten on return. I > just include the job number in a perl scrip argument, create a data file > with the job number in it and then have this follow the job (just because I > am not using .net to work with alchemi yet, I'm trying to keep from writing > much software), then read this file as input into anays and tack on the job > number to the end of the file. > > 3) Have alchemi look for the file name produced by ansys as the return file. > > That's it..... I understand that is actually a lot. I'll put together a > simple write-up and include the scripting functions for review by yourself > and the group. Fell free to ask any questions I'll certainly try and help. > > John > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: "Anand, Vaitheeswaran (IE10)" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 4:29:55 AM > Subject: [Alchemi-users] Alchemi and Engineering Analysis softwares > Hi, > > Has anyone tried Alchemi with Engineering Analysis software like Ansys. > > Please let me know. > > Thanks > > V Anand > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? 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