[Equest-users] Weird error by DOE2.2

Thu Feb 11 10:24:47 PST 2016

Hi again.

A temporary fix that seems to be working for me is to close eQUEST, clean the project folder of everything except *.pd2 and *.inp files, and restart the computer. Cleaning RAM and forcing the DLLs to reload seems to clean up the problem. But it reappears after a while (letting the computer runs for too long counts toward that too). May not work everytime, but seems reliable enough for now.

Can’t wait for the permanent fix though.

Frederic.

De : Jeff Hirsch [mailto:james.j.hirsch at gmail.com] 
Envoyé : 7 février 2016 17:28
À : Frédéric Genest <fgenest_ing at bell.net>; equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Objet : Re: [Equest-users] Weird error by DOE2.2

This is a known problem caused by the an unexpected interaction between the Intel compiler runtime library linked into the DLL versions of DOE used in eQUEST and the DOE-2 report generator code used to produce the .sim file. A fix has been implemented into the next release of the DOE-2 DLL’s linked into 3.65; this new 3.65 release is almost through internal testing and is expected to be available in the next month. The problem is not experienced in the exe versions of stand-alone DOE-2. There is no workaround except sometimes selecting a reduced or alternative list of output reports may get around the problem. This problem only impacts the .sim files produced by DLL versions of DOE-2 and does not impact the binary DOE-2 results files used to product eQUEST graphics of other reports.

Details of the problem (only useful for developers): The Intel runtime system reads past the end of the output format for a report and gets confused finding parts of other formats for other reports in later portions of the array, and issues the error.  So the error is not caused by the actual line of data being written to the report but rather other not visible information that was not expected to be seen by the runtime system. The fix is to ensure that the character array where the report format is stored when passed to the runtime library is blank filled after or ends at the end of the report format being processed so that the runtime system stops processing when the format ends rather than continues processing after the format ends until it finds the end of the array passed.

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Jeff Hirsch
James J. Hirsch & Associates
12185 Presilla Road -  Camarillo, CA 93012-9243 USA
phone: (805) 553-9000 mobile: (805) 532-1045 fax: (805) 532-2401
email:  <mailto:James.J.Hirsch at gmail.com> James.J.Hirsch at gmail.com

From: Frédéric Genest <mailto:fgenest_ing at bell.net>  

Sent: Sunday, February 7, 2016 9:07 AM

To: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org <mailto:equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org>  

Subject: [Equest-users] Weird error by DOE2.2

Hello group.

I see to have a weird problem with my DOE2.2, and I can't find de way to
solve it.

Out of the blue, DOE2.2 started to print the following "format dump header"
(or a similar one) on (almost) each report page (LV or LS, PV or PS, SV or
SS). Below is a sample from the BEPS report.

***************************************
REPORT- BEPS Building Energy Performance
WEATHER FILE- Montreal Internation
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------
PRT3 failure @ 88010,  IOSTAT: 62  Report: 34  Format:  1  Iuniq:  837
Kommnd: 1  Nwrit: 80
Format Dump:
(/

'                          TASK     MISC    SPACE    SPACE     HEAT
PUMPS',  
'     VENT    REFRIG  HT PUMP   DOMEST    EXT'/

'                LIGHTS   LIGHTS   EQUIP   HEATING  COOLING   REJECT   &
AUX',  
'     FANS   DISPLAY  SUPPLEM  HOT WTR   USAGE    TOTAL'/

'               -------  -------  -------  -------  -------  -------
-------', 
'  -------  -------  -------  -------  -------  --------')

EM1  ELECTRICITY     
    MBTU        327.2      0.0    321.0    625.9    420.6     36.5    232.9
556.2      0.0      0.0      0.0    129.9    2650.1

FM1  NATURAL-GAS     
    MBTU          0.0      0.0      0.0    559.9      0.0      0.0      0.0
0.0      0.0      0.0    283.5      0.0     843.4
PRT3 failure @ 88006,  IOSTAT: 62  Report: 34  Format:  3  Iuniq:  837
Kommnd: 1  Nwrit: 15
Format Dump:
('               =======  =======  =======  =======  =======  =======
=======',
'  =======  =======  =======  =======  =======  ========'//

  5x, 2A4,           -6P 12F9.1,F10.1)

                   TOTAL SITE ENERGY      3493.54 MBTU     45.8 KBTU/SQFT-YR
GROSS-AREA     45.8 KBTU/SQFT-YR NET-AREA
                   TOTAL SOURCE ENERGY    8793.82 MBTU    115.2 KBTU/SQFT-YR
GROSS-AREA    115.2 KBTU/SQFT-YR NET-AREA

                   PERCENT OF HOURS ANY SYSTEM ZONE OUTSIDE OF THROTTLING
RANGE =  1.62
                   PERCENT OF HOURS ANY PLANT LOAD NOT SATISFIED
=  0.00
                   HOURS ANY ZONE ABOVE COOLING THROTTLING RANGE
=    81
                   HOURS ANY ZONE BELOW HEATING THROTTLING RANGE
=    61

                   NOTE:  ENERGY IS APPORTIONED HOURLY TO ALL END-USE
CATEGORIES.

***************************************

It doesn't seem to be related to the warnings / errors / "curve out of
bounds" warnings / etc. I may get when running a model.

At first, I thought it was because I was having problem with my new model
definition (something wrong with some parameters). But I have this "format
dump" header even with other models which were printing out correctly a few
days ago.

I uninstalled eQUEST and tried with another version of the software,
thinking I might have a corrupted installation; no change.
I tried with a different version of eQUEST; no change.

Any ideas? It's making reading the reports difficult, but I fear more it may
be hiding something more serious.

Regards,

Frédéric Genest, ing.

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