[Gate-users] Batch jobs and Random seed question

[Jan De Beenhouwer]

Hi,

If you have a multicore processor you can use the cluster mode
of GATE. Just use the openmosix option to start your simulations. You  
don't even have to install openmosix for that.

regards,
Jan



Citeren K B <kd8had at gmail.com>:

> Hello All,
>   I have a dual core machine and trying to take advantage of this I
> split my job into 6 parts:
>
> CPU 1: runs script 1. Script 1 had 3 simulations, all using same macro
> files but with different root output files. Something like this:
>
> Gate -a ROOTFILE 1.root < pointsrc.mac
> Gate -a ROOTFILE 2.root < pointsrc.mac
> Gate -a ROOTFILE 3.root < pointsrc.mac
>
> CPU 2: runs script 2 which is something like this:
> Gate -a ROOTFILE 4.root < pointsrc.mac
> Gate -a ROOTFILE 5.root < pointsrc.mac
> Gate -a ROOTFILE 6.root < pointsrc.mac
>
> Both the scripts are in the same directory. I noticed that the files
> are not independent.  1.root has same data as 4.dat, 2.root has the
> same data as 5.dat and so on.
>
>> From the user manual, I understand that the "endOfRun.rndm" files
> ensures that 1,2,and 3 are independent runs, but how do I make 1 and 4
> are independent given that they start at the same time.
>
> I hope I explained the problem well. Thanks for any pointers.
>
> Thanks.
>
> KD8.
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