Make adjustments to the optimisation settings for a more computationally efficient
solution.
On the Solve/Run tab, in the
Run/Launch group, click the dialog launcher.
Figure 1. The Component launch options
(Utilities tab) dialog.
Special options related to OPTFEKO are set on the
Utilities tab, OPTFEKO group. These
settings are as follows:
Restart from solver run
This option may be used if a previous optimisation was interrupted. If this
option is selected, then OPTFEKO will attempt to
restart the optimisation process from the iteration number provided in the
Restart analysis number text box. The optimisation
can only be restarted if the temporary files have been kept during a previous
optimisation run, see Delete all files (except optimum)
below. If solution files are missing for a specific optimisation iteration,
OPTFEKO runs the Feko solver to recreate the missing files. If any changes
have been made to the model, solution or optimisation settings, OPTFEKO ignores all existing results, and re-compute
all results as required.
Delete all files (except optimum)
If this option is selected, then all of the temporary files are deleted during
the optimisation process. When the optimisation process is completed (or if the
optimisation process is interrupted), the original model, as well as the optimum
are available along with all related simulation results. The optimum model and
results are indicated by the addition of the string
(_optimum) at the end of the file names. If this option
is unchecked then no model or result files are deleted during the optimisation
process.
Note: This option must be unselected in order to use the
Restart from solver run option
(above).
Specify number of processes to farm out
This option allows the specification of the distributed computing system when
farming out the solutions during an optimisation. The
Configure button launches the Machines
configuration dialog where the machines in the cluster as well
as the number of processes to be launched on each machine is specified. This
dialog is identical to cluster configuration for parallel launching.
dialog launcher.