monteCarlo on IC5 creates an extra job

[rick]

When running monteCarlo on IC5, ADE will create an extra job. If I
enter number of runs =4 it will submit
5. This happens when running in distributed mode. Has anyone seen
this before?

 

[Andrew Beckett]

rick wrote, on 12/21/10 23:46:

When running monteCarlo on IC5, ADE will create an extra job. If I
enter number of runs =4 it will submit
5. This happens when running in distributed mode. Has anyone seen
this before?

Rick,

My guess (without trying it) is that this is due to the nominal run that is run
first. The nominal run is for two reasons - it's useful to have the nominal
results, and second it's used to validate the expressions (and abort if the
expressions fail).

In IC6.1, you can turn off the nominal run, but I don't believe it's possible in
IC5141 - the cdsenv in IC6.1 is:

spectre.mc donominal string "yes"

Regards,

Andrew

 

[Rick Mattern]

On Dec 22, 12:39 am, Andrew Beckett <andr...@DcEaLdEeTnEcTe.HcIoSm>
wrote:

rick wrote, on 12/21/10 23:46:

When running monteCarlo on IC5, ADE will create an extra job.  If I
enter number of runs =4  it will submit
5.  This happens when running in distributed mode.   Has anyone seen
this before?

Rick,

My guess (without trying it) is that this is due to the nominal run that is run
first. The nominal run is for two reasons - it's useful to have the nominal
results, and second it's used to validate the expressions (and abort if the
expressions fail).

In IC6.1, you can turn off the nominal run, but I don't believe it's possible in
IC5141 - the cdsenv in IC6.1 is:

spectre.mc      donominal       string  "yes"

Regards,

Andrew

It looks like the last job creates the plots but its not waiting for
it to complete since its running under DRMS
which disable waits. we had this issue before with ocean and had to
use IPC commands to submtit and wait.
We are submitting using the "command" option on the panel so any idea
on how to form a command to tell
it to wait until all of the jobs are done? The submitter is NC or
network computer and the command is:
nc run -C spectre_ade

Thanks

 

[Andrew Beckett]

Rick Mattern wrote, on 12/23/10 00:01:

It looks like the last job creates the plots but its not waiting for
it to complete since its running under DRMS
which disable waits. we had this issue before with ocean and had to
use IPC commands to submtit and wait.
We are submitting using the "command" option on the panel so any idea
on how to form a command to tell
it to wait until all of the jobs are done? The submitter is NC or
network computer and the command is:
nc run -C spectre_ade

Thanks

Hi Rick,

OCEAN has the wait() function to wait until a job is completed, but that won't
work if you're using command mode. Without access to NC, I don't think I could
offer much in the way of advice, I'm afraid. One possibility would be to submit
a dependent job somehow, but I think you'd end up bypassing the ADE integration.

Regards,

Andrew.