[fluka-discuss]: Re: STOP NO RANDOM FILE error

From: Mikhail Polkovnikov <Михаил Полковников> <pmk_at_ihep.ru>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 15:57:37 +0300

On 15.01.2015 14:38, Nickolay wrote:
> I want to run my custom exe in GRID, so I can't use rfluka or anything
> like that.
>
> BTW, does anyone know some information on this matter? Is it possible
> at all (running FLUKA in GRID, I mean), given the fact, that FLUKA
> relies on lots of auxillary files (those .bin file in $FLUPRO)?
>
> Thanks.
>
> On 14.01.2015 19:06, Alberto Fasso wrote:
>> Why don't you want to run the rfluka script?
>> Have a look at it, and you will see that it does much more than
>> executing an *.exe file. Among many other necessary things, it
>> creates the temporary directory where FLUKA is going to run, and
>> makes sure that all the data files needed by FLUKA are available there.
>> random.dat is just one of those files.
>>
>> Alberto
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 14 Jan 2015, Nickolay wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I need to run custom made executable (made using FLAIR). So I looked
>>> into
>>> rfluka script and, based on its contents, issued a command:
>>>
>>> example.exe < example.inp &> log.out
>>>
>>> As a result, my program stopped with the following error:
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> ***** Next control card ***** RANDOMIZ 1.000 0.000 0.000
>>> 0.000 0.000 0.000
>>>
>>> **** No Random file available !!!!!! ****
>>> Abort called from FLRM64 reason NO RANDOM FILE Run stopped!
>>> STOP NO RANDOM FILE
>>>
>>> I even copied random.dat from $FLUPRO into the directory where I try to
>>> execute my program but it didn't help.
>>>
>>> Could anyone explain me how to run custom made FLUKA executables
>>> manually?
>>> (i.e. not using rfluka script)
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Nick
>>>
>>>
>
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Hi Nickolay,

Here are links that could be useful.
Don't sure about the actual state of these projects.

1. Dr. Niels Bassler's blog:
http://willworkforscience.blogspot.ru/2012/01/quick-and-dirty-guide-for-parallelizing.html
2. AU FLUKA Tools:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/auflukatools/?source=directory


Best regards,
Mikhail

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