Windows Queuing System 2.6

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.