Restarted Simulation Readers
When running a large or long simulation, it is common to need to restart the simulation. There are several reasons for needing to restart a simulation; system failures on large machines can bring down running programs occasionally, or scheduling policies may limit how long a simulation can run. Depending on the simulation, when it is restarted it may create a brand new set of results files. Thus, there will be a data file (or set of data files) for each time the simulation was restarted.
Having these multiple outputs from simulation restarts can lead to complications when reading them. For starters, each data set will have its own time series, but we will probably want to be able to step through time over all time data sets as if they were one. Furthermore, it is common for a restarted simulation to backtracking, meaning that there may be some overlap of time steps amongst the data sets. The file you read the data from is important as the data in some time steps may be invalid if, for example, the simulation ended abruptly while writing the data.
The ParaView development team has been working to simplify reading output from restarted simulations. We try to make this as simple as possible, but there are still some steps that need to be taken to read in these series of data sets. This document describes how to load in restarted data for different file formats.
Exodus
Current simulations write one Exodus file per process and many simulations also write a new set of files each time the simulation is restarted. In the past it was necessary to mash all of these files into on large file. This is no longer necessary. (In fact, it is highly discouraged.) For many years, ParaView has been able to load in a set of files from one simulation run by simply selecting the first file in the set. ParaView will automatically find all other related files, given some standard naming conventions, and load them all together as a single data set. Dealing with restarts adds a level of complication because you now have a series of a series of files.
ParaView provides two solutions to the problem. The first is a naming convention adopted from existing simulation codes. The second is a case file that specifies the names of files in the time series.
Note that both of these solutions still rely on the time values provided in the Exodus files, even if they all contain only one time step. If, for example, all the files report data at time 0, ParaView will assume that they specify data at the same time and will only allow you to load one of the time steps.
Exodus Naming Conventions
New in version 3.8.
By default, ParaView will assume that the numbers at the end of a file represent partition numbers and will attempt to load them all at once. But there is a convention for having numbers specifying a temporal sequence instead. If the files end in .e-s.{RS} (where {RS} is some number sequence), then the numbers (called restart numbers) are taken as a partition in time instead of space. For example, the following sequence of files represents a time series.
mysimoutput.e-s.000 mysimoutput.e-s.001 mysimoutput.e-s.002
You can use any number of digits in the restart numbers, but by convention the number used should match in all files. Also by convention you can leave off the -s.{RS} of the first file. The following file sequence is interpreted the same as that above.
mysimoutput.e mysimoutput.e-s.001 mysimoutput.e-s.002
It is possible to combine a time series sequence with a spatial partitioning sequence. For files ending in .e-s.{RS}.{NP}.{RANK}, the {RS} is interpreted as the restart number (as in the previous example), the {NP} is interpreted as the number of partitions, and the {RANK} is interpreted as a partition number, which is usually simply the rank of the simulation process that dumped the file. A set of files with four spatial partitions that has three "restarts" (time series sets) will have filenames like the following.
mysimoutput.e-s.000.0004.0000 mysimoutput.e-s.000.0004.0001 mysimoutput.e-s.000.0004.0002 mysimoutput.e-s.000.0004.0003 mysimoutput.e-s.001.0004.0000 mysimoutput.e-s.001.0004.0001 mysimoutput.e-s.001.0004.0002 mysimoutput.e-s.001.0004.0003 mysimoutput.e-s.002.0004.0000 mysimoutput.e-s.002.0004.0001 mysimoutput.e-s.002.0004.0002 mysimoutput.e-s.002.0004.0003
As before, the -s.{RS} part of the files for the first time index are optional. Thus, the following is equivalent to the previous example.
mysimoutput.e.0004.0000 mysimoutput.e.0004.0001 mysimoutput.e.0004.0002 mysimoutput.e.0004.0003 mysimoutput.e-s.001.0004.0000 mysimoutput.e-s.001.0004.0001 mysimoutput.e-s.001.0004.0002 mysimoutput.e-s.001.0004.0003 mysimoutput.e-s.002.0004.0000 mysimoutput.e-s.002.0004.0001 mysimoutput.e-s.002.0004.0002 mysimoutput.e-s.002.0004.0003
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SPCTH
Current CTH simulations write one spyplot file per process and also write a new set of files each time the simulation is restarted. ParaView is able to load in a set of files from one simulation run by simply selecting the first file in the set. ParaView will automatically find all other related files, given some standard naming conventions, and load them all together as a single data set. Dealing with restarts adds a level of complication because you now have a series of a series of files with no naming convention.
ParaView now handles the naming issue by requiring a “case” file to specify the file set of each simulation run. The case file is a simple text file with the extension .spcth-timeseries where each line contains the filename of a first file of a spyplot data set. The rest of the files are automatically determined in the same manner as if you had just loaded the single file set. Do not list every file of every data set. The spyplot filenames may be given relative to the case file.
A case file can usually be generated by redirecting the output of the Unix find command. (In some circumstances, you may be able to use the simpler ls command, but there are several technical issues that will probably prevent this from working on most large data sets.) For example, let us say that every file is in a directory and has a name like the following:
mysimoutput{R}/spct{R}.{F}
Where {R} represents the restart identifier (maybe a number or a letter) and {F} represents the process number. Note that in this example we have placed the simulation output in different directories. We recommend this practice to limit the number of files in each directory. We can build a case file for this simulation data by running the following command.
find . –name 'spct*.0’ > mysimoutput.spcth-timeseries
The find command will then list all the first files in all the subdirectories. Do not worry about the order in the file, ParaView will automatically order the time steps and handle overlapping time. Simply open the mysimoutput.spcth-timeseries file in ParaView.
紧急求助 workbench12.0里点edit后出现以下错误 如何解决 多谢啦 请尽快答复AnsysWBU.exe eunocntered a problem.A diagnostic file has been written: C: \AnsysWBDumpFile.dmp好像是在workbench里不能和其他的应用程序连接，只要一编辑一导入其他程序就出错，是系统的原因 还是没装好 又重装了几次ansys还是不行啊。。
Acknowledgements
Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company, for the United States Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000.
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