[JohnAB]

Hello,

just a simple question:
I'm remotely running starccm+ on a computer that has no graphics capabilities and when I open starccm+ in the middle of a simulation, it crashes because it tries to open the scalar scene I am saving to file.
I cannot delete the scene because I want to export the png files.
But is there a way not to display any scene on starccm+ ?
Even if I do not open it, after a few iterations it would automatically open... is there a way to turn this off while keeping saving the scene to files ?

thanks!

[ping]

this is confusing. when you say running remotely can we assume you mean you run just the server process with no gui - eg in batch mode using the -batch switch. this will run un-attended and write scene files to disk.

then it sounds like you are connecting to this running batch session. the best way to do this is from a computer that does have graphics ie using star-ccm+ in true client-server mode across a network or wlan - just need to connect to the correct server process and port thru the firewalls etc and it works very well

[JohnAB]

Ping, thanks for your answer.

My problem is that I have to get the .sim file ready on my computer: import geometry, set everything up until it is ready to mesh and still is about 1Mb.
I then export this to the cluster (linux) and I have to mesh on the cluster. I have not found any command to execute the volume mesh (is there any? that would help me a lot!) so that means I have to open starccm+ on the cluster and manually hit the volume mesh icon (I cannot mesh from my computer because then I would have to send a 1 to 10Gb file to the cluster, which is impossible with the bad connection I have, would take 10hrs for 1Gb).
After that, using commands only I can run my files.

What I want to do then, is open the starccm+ interface when it is running to be able to change, if needed, some parameters, or refine the mesh, or just tell that my simulation is already steady state and can be stopped. To do this, I have to open the starccm+ interface that is on the cluster, and then, because the remote computer has no graphics, the auto open of the scene makes it crash. Which means I cannot do what I want to do.

I think i cannot run starccm+ on my computer and remotely connect to the cluster because the cluster is behind the head node and a few firewalls do not allow me to directly connect to the cluster from my computer, only to the head node, which I am not allowed to run on a simulation on.

[me3840]

You do not have to open the interface to issue STAR-CCM+ commands.

If you use the -batch option you can specify a java file which can do almost anything to the sim file.

You can record Java commands from the GUI by using the record macro button. Save these files and run them later on your other computer in batch. You will not be able to work with the sim file interactively, but you can make extremely intelligent batch processing files that will do whatever you want.

[ping]

yes a simple macro is the answer to your mesh and run issue - the one below was created by pushing the volume mesh icon then the run icon

however once the case is running on any computer you can in fact connect to it with a gui client and make changes to settings but not stop the iterations in batch mode since this saves the file and exits i think

connecting through the network and cluster to a node will be challenging but it is possible with help from a good network engineer assuming you can specify the name of the node to run the master server process on

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// STAR-CCM+ macro: mesh_then_run.java
package macro;

import java.util.*;

import star.common.*;
import star.meshing.*;

public class mesh_then_run extends StarMacro {

public void execute() {
execute0();
}

private void execute0() {

Simulation simulation_0 =
getActiveSimulation();

MeshPipelineController meshPipelineController_0 =
simulation_0.get(MeshPipelineController.class);

meshPipelineController_0.generateVolumeMesh();

simulation_0.getSimulationIterator().run();
}
}