ViNE
Once you have configured your simulation, (i.e., set up the wind, Domain, and Monitors, etc.), you need to submit the simulation to ViNE for execution.
Running and Configuring ViNE
To launch ViNE, select Start → All Programs → Virtualwind → ViNE. You will see a ViNE icon (see below) now sits in the system tray (task bar notification area). If you are running a Pro version of Virtualwind, you may want to tell ViNE the number of CPU cores on your computer. To do this, right click on the ViNE icon in the system tray and choose Configuration. Then set up the proper number and click on the "Ok" button in the configuration window that pops up.
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Submitting a Simulation
Before submitting a simulation, make sure that ViNE is running. Then choose the Execution → Submit Study sub-menu item from the Virtualwind main window. The ViNE Seeder window will appear as shown below.
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Configuring the Submission
By default, simulations will run on your local machine but you can also configure Virtualwind to run simulations on a remote machine. If properly configured, the remote computers that are able to accept simulations can be selected by clicking the "Select" button in the ViNE Seeder window. Otherwise the "Select" button is disabled and the simulation can only be submitted to "localhost" – your local machine. If you are running a Pro version of Virtualwind, which runs the parallelized wind flow solver on multi-core platforms, you can also specify how many CPU cores you want to use when executing the simulation. By default, it is set to one.
In the case that you are submitting to a remote computer, you can specify whether you want to transfer the simulation data back to your local computer and if so, whether or not you want to delete the simulation data on the remote computer once they are transferred. Check the "Keep intermediate data files" if you want to keep the unassembled data as well (the final simulation results are generated by an assemble process which assembles the intermediate data – the data produced by each individual CPU cores while they are running the simulation). The job is then submitted by clicking the "Submit" button.
Viewing the Job Progress
You can monitor the progress of the submitted simulations from the ViNE Viewer. Usually, the ViNE Viewer window automatically launches when you submit a simulation. You can also manually launch ViNE Viewer by selecting Open ViNE Viewer from the Execution menu or right clicking on the ViNE icon in the system tray and selecting Launch ViNE Viewer.
The figure below shows a ViNE Viewer window. From its upper area you can choose the executor (computer that execute simulations) you would like to monitor. The middle area shows the queues on the selected computer. Simulations are arranged as jobs in the queues. The jobs that are currently running are listed in the "Running" branch and those that are waiting in the queue are listed in the "Queue" branch. You can remove a job, regardless of whether or not it is running, from the queue by selecting the job from the window and clicking the "Remove job" button. The bottom area works as a console output window displaying the information output by the current running job. You can update both the queue area and the output area by clicking the "Update" button beside them. Alternatively, you can choose to allow the ViNE Viewer to update them automatically by checking the Auto-update boxes beside them and specifying an update interval via the slide bars.
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Once the execution of a job is finished, all the information displayed in the console output area will be written to a text file joboutput.txt located under the folder "Raw" inside the simulation's folder.