[esp-r] Re: Scaling up my Model

[Jon Hand]

Questions about Integrated Performance Views...

A number of the questions about IPV can be dealt with by a new section
in the about-to-be-released August 2010 version of the ESP-r Cookbook.

Those of you who would like an early look at the Cookbook can contact
me and I will upload it to you (PDF is over 5MB now).

The task termintated with an error condition usually indicates some
fault when running the model. Those running such assessments on
OSX or Linux or Solaris or under Cygwin can probably look in their
command terminal and see some warnings when the simulation is
running.  

On native windows that is not an option unless you down load the MSYS
environment (includes Linux shells and utilities) and often the hidden
messages can be seen if you invoke the tools within MSYS rather than
from the normal Windows file manager.

Do check one thing - if you are running silently in windows it will
probably try and put the results files in your HOME folder.  If that
is deep in the file structure or has unprintable characters in the
path then that could cause a crash.

-Jon Hand
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From: Ian McCall [ijmccall at yahoo.com]
Sent: 15 August 2010 18:19
To: Jon Hand; Achim Geisslet (ESP-r)
Cc: ESP-r
Subject: Scaling up my Model

Hello Jon, Achim & fellow ESP-r Community ,

I have some questions / comments with regards to the topic IPV (Integrated Performance View).

1) When I enter >simulation controller > integrate performance view> IPV options > run required simulations > run interactively I can extract manually the respective "res" & "mfr" files. When I go....  > run required simulations > run silently I consistently get the following error for each of the 5 seasons and the respective "res" & "mfr" files are not generated:
"task terminated with an error condition
task terminated with an error condition
task terminated with an error condition
task terminated with an error condition
task terminated with an error condition
* Reached end of file looking for report!"

When I enter IPV options >extract reports > run interactively I can extract / create manually the respective IVP file. When I go....  > run required simulations > run silently I consistently get the following error and the respective "IPV" (rep) file is not generated:
"task terminated with an error condition
* IPV extract ipv_win1 is complete.
task terminated with an error condition
* IPV extract ipv_spr is complete.
task terminated with an error condition
* IPV extract ipv_sum is complete.
task terminated with an error condition
* IPV extract ipv_aut is complete.
task terminated with an error condition
* IPV extract ipv_win2 is complete.
task terminated with an error condition
* Reached end of file looking for report!"

Do you know how to get around this so that I can generate the files / reports silently?

2) The Cookbook 2008 does not have too much information with regards to this topic. Is there a document that describes exactly what I am looking at when I open the IPV (rep) file?

>From what I can tell, when I open the IPV (rep) file it looks like I have a list of information: the seasonal data and an aggregate summary.  Each seasonal data is broken down into overview information; simulated periods information; individual days (included in the respective simulation period sections); and finally summary data.

3) Right now I can view the IPV file in the text window. Is there some way to view this IPV file in a graphic window?

Regards,

Ian

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