Interactive regime

[DanRRRR]

Would be nice to have in Epoch interactive regime. Say, you want the running code to immediately dump the data, or provide detailed report of its current state or pause the run, or ideally even plot something, you issue some command and it is done. Any ideas how better do that? That is how all my own codes work. May be something like that already partially present in the code?

[Status-Mirror]

Hey @DanRRRR,

A similar feature is already present in the code, but it's a bit of a hack. If you create a file called STOP in the same directory as the input.deck, then the simulation will finish the current step, write a restart dump, then stop. You could then inspect the current state, and restart the simulation.

This feature was originally developed for running on clusters where you may only have a certain time allocation. It's discussed more in the cluster restart demo.

Hope this helps,
Stuart

[DanRRRR]

Cool, thanks for this info, Stuart

[DanRRRR]

How about adding emergency printing regular data without stopping of run?

[Status-Mirror]

Hey @DanRRRR,

Good idea - I'll see if we can make it an option in the new version.

Cheers,
Stuart

[DanRRRR]

Do any hacks exist besides Restart to prevent the running code from stopping at (incorrectly) defined in input.deck end time t_end and force it to continue ?

So much time was lost due to absence of this option