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SIMULATION INFORMATION TUTORIAL

Simulation Information

SimulationTools provides functions for accessing information about a simulation. This currently works best with Cactus simulations. For full functionality, certain output must have been enabled for the simulation. See the Supported Codes and Data Formats tutorial for more information.

Getting an overview of a simulation

Simulation overview.

SimulationOverview can be used for a quick, at a glance overview of the status of a simulation, including the run speed, memory usage, trajectories, waveforms and run time. Its current focus is on binary black hole simulations using Cactus, but it has an extensible interface which will allow it to support other simulation types in the future.

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Simulation Cores CPU hrs. Days CPU hrs./day Estimated finish bbh 12 62.5898 0.217326 288 Finished
bbh Finished
Simulation Speed Memory/GB Swap/MB Cores bbh 58.0 2.0 10 12
Simulation Segments bbh Segment Last output t1 t2 0000 Thu 25 Apr 2013 06:17:34 0 6.5 0001 Thu 25 Apr 2013 06:17:34 7 300

Accessing individual simulation statistics

Accessing statistics on a simulation.

We can compute the total number of hours the simulation has run for,

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the speed of the evolution (evolved coordinate time per hour as a function of the simulation coordinate time)

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memory usage

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swap usage

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the number of CPU cores used

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and the total computational cost of the simulation in CPU hours

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Much of this information is available only if the simulation was run using SimFactory.  Support for alternative systems can be added as required.

Related Tutorials

SupportedCodesAndDataFormats

Parameters