<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413026934437_10920"><span class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413026934437_12060">Dear </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413026934437_12063">Loïc,</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413026934437_10920"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413026934437_10920"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413026934437_10919" class="" style="">I've tried to run my main macro file through the following command:</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413026934437_10920"><span class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413026934437_10974"> "/control/loop myMain.mac mycounter 1 10 10"</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413026934437_10920"><span class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413026934437_10976">which is supposed to run 10 simulations with 10 million particles with different seeds (by </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413026934437_10950">/gate/random/setEngineSeed auto</span>). But It runs only the first 10 million particles and doesn't keep run the remains.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413026934437_10920">Do you have any idea what's wrong with this command? I guess it's the only way I can proceed with 100 million primaries without getting error.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413026934437_10920"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413026934437_10920">Best regards</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413026934437_10920">Soman</div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Friday, October 3, 2014 9:10 AM, Grevillot Loic <loic.grevillot@medaustron.at> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv6512166384"><style>#yiv6512166384 #yiv6512166384 -- _filtered #yiv6512166384 {font-family:Helvetica;panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;} _filtered #yiv6512166384 {font-family:Helvetica;panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;} _filtered #yiv6512166384 {font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;} _filtered #yiv6512166384 {font-family:Tahoma;panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;} #yiv6512166384 #yiv6512166384 p.yiv6512166384MsoNormal, #yiv6512166384 li.yiv6512166384MsoNormal, #yiv6512166384 div.yiv6512166384MsoNormal {margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;} #yiv6512166384 a:link, #yiv6512166384 span.yiv6512166384MsoHyperlink {color:blue;text-decoration:underline;} #yiv6512166384 a:visited, #yiv6512166384 span.yiv6512166384MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple;text-decoration:underline;} #yiv6512166384 p.yiv6512166384MsoAcetate, #yiv6512166384 li.yiv6512166384MsoAcetate, #yiv6512166384 div.yiv6512166384MsoAcetate {margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:8.0pt;} #yiv6512166384 p.yiv6512166384msonormal, #yiv6512166384 li.yiv6512166384msonormal, #yiv6512166384 div.yiv6512166384msonormal {margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12.0pt;} #yiv6512166384 p.yiv6512166384msochpdefault, #yiv6512166384 li.yiv6512166384msochpdefault, #yiv6512166384 div.yiv6512166384msochpdefault {margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12.0pt;} #yiv6512166384 span.yiv6512166384msohyperlink {} #yiv6512166384 span.yiv6512166384msohyperlinkfollowed {} #yiv6512166384 span.yiv6512166384emailstyle17 {} #yiv6512166384 p.yiv6512166384msonormal1, #yiv6512166384 li.yiv6512166384msonormal1, #yiv6512166384 div.yiv6512166384msonormal1 {margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;} #yiv6512166384 span.yiv6512166384msohyperlink1 {color:blue;text-decoration:underline;} #yiv6512166384 span.yiv6512166384msohyperlinkfollowed1 {color:purple;text-decoration:underline;} #yiv6512166384 span.yiv6512166384emailstyle171 {color:#1F497D;} #yiv6512166384 p.yiv6512166384msochpdefault1, #yiv6512166384 li.yiv6512166384msochpdefault1, #yiv6512166384 div.yiv6512166384msochpdefault1 {margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:10.0pt;} #yiv6512166384 span.yiv6512166384EmailStyle27 {color:#1F497D;} #yiv6512166384 span.yiv6512166384BalloonTextChar {} #yiv6512166384 .yiv6512166384MsoChpDefault {font-size:10.0pt;} _filtered #yiv6512166384 {margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 2.0cm 70.85pt;} #yiv6512166384 div.yiv6512166384WordSection1 {} #yiv6512166384 </style><div> <div class="yiv6512166384WordSection1"> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Dear Soman,</span></div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">You said you need to run 100 million primaries and artifacts appear after 10 million.</span></div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">My suggestion is therefore to run 10 simulations of 10 million particles (fully equivalent to a single simu of 100 million). You just have to make sure the seeds are different for every simulation, which can be easily achieved using the following command:</span></div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">/gate/random/setEngineSeed auto</span></div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Best,</span></div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Loïc</span></div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div> <div class="yiv6512166384yqt9572132842" id="yiv6512166384yqt77462"><div> <div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> S. Saghamanesh [mailto:s.saghamanesh@yahoo.com] <br clear="none"> <b>Sent:</b> Freitag, 3. Oktober 2014 07:30<br clear="none"> <b>To:</b> Grevillot Loic<br clear="none"> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [Gate-users] Can't run with 100 million particles</span></div> </div> </div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal"> </div> <div> <div id="yiv6512166384yui_3_16_0_1_1412313564623_5321"> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Hi,</span></div> </div> <div id="yiv6512166384yui_3_16_0_1_1412313564623_5528"> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> </span></div> </div> <div id="yiv6512166384yui_3_16_0_1_1412313564623_5170"> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Thanks a lot for your note. I use of splitting 1000 for my emitted photons but I still have unacceptable uncertainties, so I have to run with 100 million particles. Do you tell me if I run 10 simulations with 10 million particles, it would lessen the uncertainty? I guess it wouldn't, because I have uncertain results with a single simulation of 10 million particles.</span></div> </div> <div id="yiv6512166384yui_3_16_0_1_1412313564623_5898"> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> </span></div> </div> <div id="yiv6512166384yui_3_16_0_1_1412313564623_5900"> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Thanks in advance for your help</span></div> </div> <div id="yiv6512166384yui_3_16_0_1_1412313564623_6167"> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">- Soman</span></div> </div> <div id="yiv6512166384yui_3_16_0_1_1412313564623_5899"> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> </span></div> </div> <div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> </span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">On Wednesday, October 1, 2014 3:41 PM, Grevillot Loic <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:loic.grevillot@medaustron.at" target="_blank" href="mailto:loic.grevillot@medaustron.at">loic.grevillot@medaustron.at</a>> wrote:</span><span style=""></span></div> </div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;"><span style=""> </span></div> <div> <div id="yiv6512166384"> <div> <div> <div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Dear Soman,</span><span style=""></span></div> </div> <div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span><span style=""></span></div> </div> <div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">We noticed a similar simulation “artifact” when a too high number of particles was used. We also noticed that the effect is dependent on the particle type and simulation parameters (cut, step size).</span><span style=""></span></div> </div> <div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">We will try correcting the bug for the next release. In the meantime I advise you to run 10 simulations of 10 million particles.</span><span style=""></span></div> </div> <div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span><span style=""></span></div> </div> <div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Sincerely,</span><span style=""></span></div> </div> <div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><b><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-size:10.0pt;"> </span></b><span style=""></span></div> </div> <div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Loïc</span><span style=""></span></div> </div> <div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span><span style=""></span></div> </div> <div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span><span style=""></span></div> </div> <div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span><span style=""></span></div> </div> <div id="yiv6512166384yqt35699"> <div> <div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"> <div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:gate-users-bounces@lists.opengatecollaboration.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:gate-users-bounces@lists.opengatecollaboration.org">gate-users-bounces@lists.opengatecollaboration.org</a> [<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:gate-users-bounces@lists.opengatecollaboration.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:gate-users-bounces@lists.opengatecollaboration.org">mailto:gate-users-bounces@lists.opengatecollaboration.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>S. Saghamanesh<br clear="none"> <b>Sent:</b> Mittwoch, 1. Oktober 2014 09:29<br clear="none"> <b>To:</b> <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:gate-users@lists.opengatecollaboration.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:gate-users@lists.opengatecollaboration.org">gate-users@lists.opengatecollaboration.org</a><br clear="none"> <b>Subject:</b> [Gate-users] Can't run with 100 million particles</span><span style=""></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style=""> </span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Hi,</span><span style=""></span></div> </div> </div> <div> <div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> </span><span style=""></span></div> </div> </div> <div> <div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Is there any limitation on the number of primary particles generated in Gate7.0 ? It seems running code with more than 10 million particles leads to false results. I need to run my code with 100 millions particles, but after checking (with a very simple example), I noticed that no more than 20 million particles would be generated.</span><span style=""></span></div> </div> </div> <div> <div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> </span><span style=""></span></div> </div> </div> <div> <div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Thanks for your comments.</span><span style=""></span></div> </div> </div> <div> <div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">- Soman</span><span style=""></span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div> <div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Disclaimer:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"><br clear="none"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Please notice our E-Mail Disclaimer <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.medaustron.at/email-disclaimer/"><span style="color:#112359;">http://www.medaustron.at/email-disclaimer/</span></a></span><span style=""> </span></div> </div> </div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style=""> </span></div> </div> </div> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;"><span style=""> </span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> </div> <div class="yiv6512166384WordSection1"> <div class="yiv6512166384MsoNormal"><small><span style=""></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="">Disclaimer:</span></b><br clear="none"> <span lang="EN-GB" style="">Please notice our E-Mail Disclaimer <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.medaustron.at/email-disclaimer/"><span style="color:rgb(17, 35, 89);">http://www.medaustron.at/email-disclaimer/</span></a></span></small><span style=""></span> </div> </div> <br clear="none"> </div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>