Windows Queuing System 2.6

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8 Mar 2019 PAM-STAMP Utilities 2.6 ESI GmbH

Updated on 12 Jul 2022

Queuing system 2.6 is now available

Description

This tool is to help users to manage the launch of simulations for PAM-STAMP, PAM-FORM and multistage .pc files with a queue in Windows from versions 2019.0

Info

Changes vs version 2.5

1/ Bug-fixes 

  • Empty “queuestart.txt” does not cause a crash
  • Empty file is created when “esi_queue_from_gui.bat” has been executed manually

2/ Developments :

  • Directory for the batch-file to start the job from the PAM-STAMP GUI can be customized → Configuration file has changed
  • Current jobs (waiting and running) are saved
  • Can be read again, when the Queuing-System was closed

Changes vs version 2.4.1

  • PAM-STAMP optimizations are supported
  • PAM-FORM is supported
  • Multistage *.pc files are supported
  • Installation is now done in “C:\Program Files\ESI Group”
  • Dedicated folder is now available in Desktop “ESI Group” folder

Changes vs version 2.3

Simulations can be started from middle stages :

  • *.cfg file is used to set the parameters for the simulation
  • Environment variable “PS2G_BREAK_STAGE” is not used anymore

Changes vs version 2.2

1/ No limit of 16 Cores. Number of cores must be given by the user. It is now limited to 16 parallel jobs

2/ Optional arguments can be given

  • In the *.cfg of the Queuing-System
  • In the GUI of the Queuing-System
  • Via “additional parameters” in the PAM-STAMP GUI host definition (when the job is queued from the PAM-STAMP GUI)

Installation

  • Be administrator of your machine and switch off the User Account Control.
  • Unzip and execute the ESI_Queuing-System_2.5_setup.exe attached
  • Follow requirements listed in Help button (Readme) according to your platform: .NET Framework is needed: check the document to install the right one.

Use

  • Run as administrator (right click on the shortcut for doing it)
  • Custom the configuration file if needed, to adapt the paths, and others parameters (To find it: check the installation directory)
  • Load a case, select the number of CPU, solver type: SMD or DMP (64Bit only), precision: SP or DP
  • Add it in the queue
  • Start the queue
  • Follow the progress of your calculation
  • Add others cases in the queue

Limitation

This tool is aimed to be used with PAM-STAMP solver 2019.0. For previous PAM-STAMP solvers versions, this is needed to use ESI Queuing System 2.1.

For more information, read the documentation files attached.

Download the file(s)

DownloadESI_Queuing-System_2.6_setup.zip 1.49 MB
DownloadESI_Queuing-System_Documentation_2.6.pdf 394.02 KB