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<P><FONT SIZE=2>You could effectively split the simulation by dividing the the calender year by # of cpus.. You'll have to manually aggregate the data however and allow reasonable startup / warmup period. The catch is..You'll need a licence for each run... :(<BR>
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I've automated this for Energyplus to make runtime very fast using scripts (up to 8x faster) , but IES does not allow scripts. <BR>
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Other than that.. fastest clockspeed would be my first choice and a RAID array configuration to increase disk I/O... that is about it.<BR>
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From: virtual-sim-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org on behalf of Simon Chilvers<BR>
Sent: Thu 05/08/2010 8:58 AM<BR>
To: virtual-sim@lists.onebuilding.org<BR>
Subject: [Virtual-sim] Apache Engine and Multicore Processors<BR>
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Looking at purchasing a standalone PC to sit separate from our work network and run our Simulations on as quickly and efficiently as possible.<BR>
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Due to ApacheSim currently not taking advantage of multithreading or multi-core processors, what would be the most effective hardware setup?<BR>
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IES seem to think that 32bit and 64bit machines in regards to the VE suite operate comparably, with the only advantage being the ability to have more than 2 GB of RAM on a 64bit system, which I can only think is an advantage when running Microflo simulations (something that we do not do here as we do not have a license.<BR>
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Therefore I assume I need to look at a processor with the biggest core size.<BR>
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Any pointers?<BR>
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Simon<BR>
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