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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">Hey everyone!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">I have an oddball request: can anybody share from experience how large SIM files can grow in size within your normal, “real world” usage of eQUEST/doe2? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">By “real world usage,” I don’t mean to ask how big SIM’s can get when you’re <i>trying</i> to make them big... Rather just what size of SIM file represents your own “worst-case” scenario.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">I’m asking because I’m working on testing out a few different strategies for parsing SIM outputs to weed out a particularly efficient approach (with Python). I’d like to get my hands on or to generate a suitable “worst case test case” with which to evaluate my efforts.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">Some observations:</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:#002060"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="color:#002060">The most complex project I’ve worked on in recent memory clocks in around 24.7 MB. Sadly, as a practice I usually strip out and delete all output files when I conclude a project to save on disk space, so I don’t have a lot of existing SIM examples lying around to simply check.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:#002060"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="color:#002060">A “dummy” DD wizard model with zero detailed edits generates a SIM weighting about 6 MB</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:#002060"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="color:#002060">It appears Custom Hourly reports add approximately 1.5 to 2 MB apiece (+365 pages in the SIM file)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">Thanks,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">~Nick</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#002060">NICK CATON, P.E.</span></b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><br></span><b><span style="color:#561782">Owner</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#561782"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#561782">Caton Energy Consulting</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><br></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1f497d"> 306 N Ferrel</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1f497d"> Olathe, KS 66061</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1f497d"> office: 785.410.3317</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#561782"><a href="www.catonenergy.com"><span style="color:#561782">www.catonenergy.com</span></a></span><span style="color:#002060"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>