Mailing List picongpu-users@hzdr.de Message #151
From: Lei, Bifeng <B.Lei@gsi.de>
Subject: Re: [PIConGPU-Users] Species is not correctly loaded after restart ?
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 21:02:25 +0000
To: picongpu-users@hzdr.de <picongpu-users@hzdr.de>
Dear Axel,

Yes. It works now.
So many thanks,

Best regards,
Bifeng Lei

> On 1 Dec 2016, at 21:44, Huebl, Axel <a.huebl@hzdr.de> wrote:
>
> Dear Bifeng,
>
>
> thank you for reaching out!
>
> Yes, you are doing everything all right and I actually just enabled that
> "feature" to allow such a restart with disabled moving window a couple
> of months ago, ... but have forgotten to publish it (the master student
> that needed it was happy ;)  )
>
> Depending on HDF5 or ADIOS for restarting, just remove the "if-line" here:
>
> https://github.com/ComputationalRadiationPhysics/picongpu/blob/0.2.1/src/picongpu/include/plugins/hdf5/HDF5Writer.hpp#L208
> or here:
>
> https://github.com/ComputationalRadiationPhysics/picongpu/blob/0.2.1/src/picongpu/include/plugins/adios/ADIOSWriter.hpp#L695
>
> then recompile & restart.
>
> From the quick testing I did back then this:
> - does not break restart that keep "-m"
> - allows restarts that remove the "-m" to stop the window.
>
> But be aware, that restarting new checkpoints from that simulation's
> restart steps will then not be able to "enable" moving window again,
> since that would require more logic in our window (we would have to
> remember how long you "paused" the moving window).
>
>
> Does that help? If yes, I will add that feature to the `dev` branch.
>
>
> All the best,
> Axel
>
> On 01.12.2016 17:24, Bifeng Lei wrote:
>> Dear Axel,
>>
>> I am currently running a laser wakefield simulation by PIConGPU on
>> Hypnos cluster. A problem occurs when I try to restart a simulation in
>> such steps:
>>
>> 1.  run a simulation *with moving window* and checkout after some
>>    steps. The attached picture (*e_png_yx_0.5_004000.png*) is the
>>    output at the checkout point.
>> 2.  restart the simulation from the checkout point *without the moving
>>    window* by setting /TBG_movingWindow="". /It means to just stop the
>>    window at this position. Right?  The laser could be correctly loaded
>>    again. But, it seems that the plasma could not be will correctly
>>    load. Please see the attached picture (*e_png_yx_0.5_004200.png*).
>>
>> Now, if I restart the simulation from the same checkout point with
>> moving window (/TBG_movingWindow="-m"/), everything seems fine. Please
>> see the picture *e_png_yx_0.5_004200_mw.png.*
>>
>> The 2D demo simulation shown here is from the LaserWakefield-example
>> shipped with the code
>> (https://github.com/ComputationalRadiationPhysics/picongpu/tree/master/examples/LaserWakefield).
>>
>> I am just wondering if anything I am doing incorrect here.
>>
>> So many thanks in advance.
>>
>> With best regards,
>> Bifeng Lei
>>
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