Gestionnaire de simulation client

The Simulation Manager client is a standalone application which provides access to simulation as they proceed and also to results previously generated. You can use it load results either to the standalone Results Viewer or to the inbuilt DesignBuilder results display system.

The SM client can be accessed from within DesignBuilder using the toolbar icon or from outside DesignBuilder from the Start button > All programs > DesignBuilder > Simulation Manager. When opening the Simulation Manager client you will see something like the screenshot below.

Behaviour is different depending on whether the application is loaded from within DesignBuilder and if so whether you are at building level or below. In this case only the simulation results for your building are displayed. Alternatively if you start the SM client from outside DesignBuilder or from site level with a model open or when no model is open from the Opening screen then all simulations (sometimes referred to as "jobs") are displayed.

Load results to DesignBuilder

If you opened the SM client from DesignBuilder and you are at building level or below in the model then the Load results to DesignBuilder icon will be available. Pressing this icon causes the results for the currently selected simulation to be loaded to the DesignBuilder Simulation screen. You must go this screen before to actually view the results.

View results in DesignBuilder Results viewer

Selecting this command opens the available results for the selected simulation to the Results Viewer application including both the tabular summary html and eso results.

View files associated with current simulation

Selecting this command opens a list of all of the files associated with the simulation currently selected including both input and outputs files.

From here you can save a file to disk or open it using the application currently associated with the file extension.

Stop current simulation

If the currently selected simulation is still running then it can be terminated using this command. In this case you will of course not obtain any simulation results.

Delete selected simulations

Use the check boxes to the left of the simulation names to select simulations for deletion and press the Delete selected simulations toolbar icon to remove all trace of the simulation including any input and output files.

Settings

The Settings command provides access to the settings for the servers used in the Simulation Manager on the local machine.

You can see the status of each of the servers with a connection as well as the maximum number of parallel simulations that can be run on each. For the localhost server (i.e. the server running on the local machine) you can edit the number of simulations from within this dialog. You are advised to enter a value no higher than 0.5 x the number of processors on the machine. In most cases the number of processors will be equal to the number of physical cores x 2, so for a 4 core machine with 8 virtual processors the best number to enter would be 4. However if you were willing to sacrifice some responsiveness of the machine you could experiment with using higher values but you should not enter a value greater than the number of virtual processors.

You can also use this dialog to stop and restart the localhost server.