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Running O-FOAM on a server

Dear All,

I am running O-FOAM on a server and I need to launch a series of commands. Hence I created a file called launch.sh which should have allowed me to run all the commands. The file looks like this:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

te about the ad-hoc solver and workaround



cd 55Deg/

mapFields  -consistent -sourceTime 2 ../60Deg/

buoyantPimpleFoam



cd ../50Deg

mapFields  -consistent -sourceTime 0.08 ../55Deg/

buoyantPimpleFoam



cd ../45Deg

mapFields  -consistent -sourceTime 0.08 ../50Deg/

buoyantPimpleFoam



cd ../40Deg

mapFields  -consistent -sourceTime 0.08 ../45Deg/

buoyantPimpleFoam



cd ../35Deg

mapFields  -consistent -sourceTime 0.08 ../40Deg/

buoyantPimpleFoam



cd ../30Deg

mapFields  -consistent -sourceTime 0.08 ../35Deg/

buoyantPimpleFoam



cd 25Deg

mapFields  -consistent -sourceTime 0.08 ../30Deg/

buoyantPimpleFoam



cd ../20Deg

mapFields  -consistent -sourceTime 0.08 ../25Deg/

buoyantPimpleFoam



cd ../15Deg

mapFields  -consistent -sourceTime 0.08 ../20Deg/

buoyantPimpleFoam



cd ../10Deg

mapFields  -consistent -sourceTime 0.08 ../15Deg/

buoyantPimpleFoam



cd ../5Deg

mapFields  -consistent -sourceTime 0.08 ../10Deg/

buoyantPimpleFoam



cd ../0Deg

mapFields  -consistent -sourceTime 0.08 ../5Deg/

buoyantPimpleFoam

The point is that - after the weekend - I discovered the the simulation stopped after these lines:

Code:

cd 55Deg/

mapFields  -consistent -sourceTime 2 ../60Deg/

buoyantPimpleFoam

Why this happened? I am not sure if this happened either because I have switched my laptop off (but I thought that the launch.sh file would have run in background. Am I wrong?) or because I write cd ../50Deg instead of cd 50Deg since the launch.sh is in the directory case which contains all the other folders (e.g.50Deg, 45Deg and so on..), at the same level of 55Deg folder.

Thanks for help,

Samuele

How did you run the script? If you didn't explicitly set it to run in the background without hang-up, it will terminate when you disconnect.

That's probably what I have missed.

I simply run sh launch.sh.

What should I do, then?

Ironically, I also found an old post of yours with the question and later the answer:
http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...tml#post375590

Yeah, you're right.

But that thread didn't offer me the solution. I can't und what I am missing.

Probabily it's better to start from the / folder, when I give the cd command in the launch.sh file.

Code:

nohup launch.sh > out.log &

Disclaimer: This is not a great idea if you are sharing the server with others.

You could try running via the "screen" command. If you are on the server, just execute "screen". This will open a new session on the server. After starting the job, you can "detach" the screen with a command to be looked up ;-) and afterwards reattach via "screen -r".

After having detached from the screen you can logout from the server without shutting down that run. When returning to the server, reattach as described.

Important: If the server has several nodes, most probably you will have to login to the same node again for "screen -r" to work properly! So note down the server number (and the screen number) before leaving for the night/lunch/coffee/etc. ;-)

+1 to screen.

Or you can set up a scheduler like SGE and launch different jobs, one for each case.

this will avoid the need to create a custom script every time and will automatically set lauch the job when the previous one is completed.

but on a single machine i'm not shure how much it is worth the hassle, it is usually used on clusers...