Hi
Ever since I installed
Version: 9.0 (Rev: ddb2c772b, Compiled: 2023-12-02)
three weeks ago, I always have 3 output files called
case.result_last_nc
case.result_1nc
case.result_1nc.pos
when my SIF contains:
Simulation
......
Output Intervals(1) = 100
Output File = "case.result"
Output File Cycle = 2
Binary Output = Logical True
Output Global Variables = True
........
End
What do suffixes
_1nc and _last_nc
stand for ?
Best wishes
Strange output filename suffixes
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Re: Strange output filename suffixes
Hi
Just remove the "output file cycle" and you get standard stuff.
The idea of this feature is that sometimes you perform a huge number of timesteps and if you save all the timesteps that may be a lo..ot of data. What you can do instead is to save the data in a sequence to the same file 1 2 3 1 2 3 ... 1 2 3 (three cycles). This way you always have rather recent timestep available but because you're writing over disk space is not exhausted. You could be running in a supercomputing queue and don't know when your time expires etc. The suffixes would be _1nc, _2nc and _3nc and the last_nc tells which one was computed last. This is probably not the smartest thing to do but compared to the standard operation it was an easy addition.
-Peter
Just remove the "output file cycle" and you get standard stuff.
The idea of this feature is that sometimes you perform a huge number of timesteps and if you save all the timesteps that may be a lo..ot of data. What you can do instead is to save the data in a sequence to the same file 1 2 3 1 2 3 ... 1 2 3 (three cycles). This way you always have rather recent timestep available but because you're writing over disk space is not exhausted. You could be running in a supercomputing queue and don't know when your time expires etc. The suffixes would be _1nc, _2nc and _3nc and the last_nc tells which one was computed last. This is probably not the smartest thing to do but compared to the standard operation it was an easy addition.
-Peter