yuchaz/fbs_batch_run

Batch run scripts for sims_featureScheduler

Update the new sims_featurescheduler

1. git clone https://github.com/yuchaz/sims_featureScheduler.git
2. Mount this new repo onto docker

Docker setup

Be sure to run the following commands when starting the docker image each time so that the script can be run without being stopped.

git config --global user.email "EMAIL"
git config --global user.name "USER"

Install GitPython for stable git version control in python script

pip install gitpython

Path setup

1. run cp setup.py.tpl setup.py
2. Edit the run_dir and sims_fbs path
3. run python setup.py for setting up path.cfg

Prepare weights JSON files

1. Prepare a json files contains the weights that need to be run in batch
2. The json file template can be found in here.

[
  [3.0, 0.5, 3.0, 5.0, 3.0, 3.0],
  [3.0, 2.7, 1.0, 3.1, 3.0, 3.0],
  ...
  [1.1, 2.7, 1.0, 3.1, 3.0, 3.0]
]

1. The length of the outer list is the total number of runs.
2. Each weight list has length of six, each weight correspond to

M5_diff_basis_function
Target_map_basis_function
MeridianStripeBasisFunction
Slewtime_basis_function
Strict_filter_basis_function
Avoid_Fast_Revists

respectively.

CLI

1. Use python run_batch.py --help for seeing instructions.
2. --weights-list-path: path to the weights JSON file
3. --opsim-flags: flags for opsim4. Use opsim4 --help to see all the flags that can be set. Need to be included in quote
4. --run-dir: If one wants to use a different run_dir other than the one set as default before.

Example commands

python run_batch.py --weights-list-path weights.json --opsim-flags '--frac-duration 0.003 -v'

TODO

• Subprocess error handling