Robert

Please go to <https://gist.github.com> and upload your output files
publicly there, then post a link.

-erik

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 9:47 PM, Robert Kopp <[email protected]>
wrote:

> This is frustrating. I suppose I should put the .pdf on the Web and give
> its URL :-)
>
>
> On Monday, May 8, 2017 10:56 AM, Robert Kopp <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
> Here all the files are in one .pdf, which should be easier to read. (It's
> about 40K, which should be acceptable, but .odt is even smaller, if it's
> necessary to use that instead.)
>
>
> On Sunday, May 7, 2017 11:55 PM, Ian Hinder <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 8 May 2017, at 04:43, Robert Kopp <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I had to change my posting email address because I was getting too many
> bounces at the previous one. So apparently I have to start a new thread.
>
> Changing "procs" to 4 is apparently understood to mean changing nodes to
> 4. (I think a node is a device that has or can have an IP--anyhow, it
> does--but I intend it to mean instead that four threads are supported.)
> Perhaps this will indicate what the problem is, though.
>
> robert@robert-desktop:~/Cactus$ ./simfactory/bin/sim submit static_tov
> --parfile=par/static_tov_small.par --procs=4 --walltime=8:0:0
> Warning: job status is U
> Warning: job status is U
> Assigned restart id: 3
> Error: Too many nodes specified: nodes=4 (maxnodes is 1)
> Aborting Simfactory.
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> Hi Robert,
>
> It's not interpreting --procs as the number of nodes to use.  It's taking
> all the configuration options and the options you pass into account, and
> trying to work out what you mean (there are a large number of possibilities
> for how to handle the parallelisation, and it's a bit complicated to make
> an interface which is powerful enough to allow all possibilities, and also
> make it simple in simple cases).
>
> However, I don't understand what is happening now.  Now that you have
> changed to using --procs 4, please can you send the files again, since they
> will have changed?  SimFactory should be calculating the number of nodes
> based on the number of cores you ask for, and the number of cores per node
> which, if you have "ppn = 4" in your ini file, and --procs 4 on the command
> line, should give you one node.  The properties.ini files from the
> simulation will reveal what simfactory has computed for each setting.
>
> --
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