Re: [fluka-discuss]: statusing of DDS and Fad files

From: Francesco Cerutti <Francesco.Cerutti_at_cern.ch>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 22:45:41 +0100

Hi Brandon

this is the normal behavior of the BME event generator as it accesses
runtime the database stored in the mentioned files. We can consider to
load it in the memory (this is not going to be an immediate change).

Cheers

Francesco

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On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, REDDELL, BRANDON D. (JSC-EV511) wrote:

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> Hello,
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> In some recent simulations being done on a linux cluster, the system
> administrator complained that there was a lot of statusing going on and it
> was affecting the cluster performance. Specifically, it was pointed out that
> there was a lot of opening and closing of files in the DDS and Fad
> directories. I haven’t had problems before, but is this normal for FLUKA to
> do this? Is there any way to minimize the activity or have those .dat files
> read into memory? The simulations involved heavy ion transport (4-Helium and
> Carbon) with PRECISIOn physics through aluminum targets.
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> Sincerely,
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>  
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> Brandon Reddell, PhD
>
> NASA Johnson Space Center
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