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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Azly,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Have you checked to make sure that all external files referenced in the simulation studio (such as weather files or performance data) have the full file path information? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>For example:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>C:\Trnsys17\Weather\US-TMY2\US-IL-Chicago-94846.tm2<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>rather than<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>US-IL-Chicago-94846.tm2<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>TRNExe will work with relative file paths but TRNOPT does not. This is a rather non-intuitive requirement that is easy to miss.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Ben Heymer, PE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Energy Engineer | <b>Energy Center of Wisconsin</b></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'> | <b>Madison.Chicago.Minneapolis<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>608.210.7168 Mobile: 312.315.4783 | <a href="http://www.ecw.org/" title="Energy Center Home Page"><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>www.ecw.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> trnsys-users-bounces@cae.wisc.edu [mailto:trnsys-users-bounces@cae.wisc.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mohamed Azly<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 01, 2013 1:44 AM<br><b>To:</b> trnsys-users@cae.wisc.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> [TRNSYS-users] Error with TRNOPT<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-MY>Hi<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-MY><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-MY>I am having problem running GenOpt, the error given is as below. I have tried running my system without genopt and it works perfectly fine, but as I ran genopt, the error was given. I cannot find the log file, to determine the error. The error below is copied from genopt.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-MY><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-MY>Can you help me this problem?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-MY><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-MY>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-MY><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-MY>Azly<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-MY><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span lang=EN-MY>Error from genopt<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-MY><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-MY style='color:#4F6228'>Assigning 2 threads for simulations.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-MY style='color:#4F6228'>Initialize.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-MY style='color:#4F6228'>java.lang.Exception: <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-MY style='color:#4F6228'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-MY style='color:#4F6228'>Exception in executing the simulation program<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-MY style='color:#4F6228'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-MY style='color:#4F6228'>Simulation working directory : 'C:\Trnsys17\Optimization\GenOpt\Simulation\tmp-genopt-run-1'<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-MY style='color:#4F6228'>Command string : 'C:\Trnsys17\Exe\TRNExe.exe "C:\Trnsys17\Optimization\GenOpt\Simulation\tmp-genopt-run-1\GenoptInputFile.DCK" /n /WAIT '<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-MY style='color:#4F6228'>Exception message: <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-MY style='color:#4F6228'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-MY style='color:#4F6228'>Error in executing the simulation program<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-MY style='color:#4F6228'>Exit value of the simulation program: 1<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-MY style='color:#4F6228'>Working directory : 'C:\Trnsys17\Optimization\GenOpt\Simulation\tmp-genopt-run-1'.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-MY style='color:#4F6228'>Current command String : 'C:\Trnsys17\Exe\TRNExe.exe "C:\Trnsys17\Optimization\GenOpt\Simulation\tmp-genopt-run-1\GenoptInputFile.DCK" /n /WAIT '.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-MY style='color:#4F6228'>Error stream of simulation program : Simulation program did not return an error stream.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-MY style='color:#4F6228'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-MY style='color:#4F6228'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-MY style='color:#4F6228'>GenOpt terminated with error.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-MY style='color:#4F6228'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-MY style='color:#4F6228'>See logfile for further information.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-MY><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-MY><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-MY><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>