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how to let cadence start a simulation at certain time

loon

Hi all,

       Due to the limitation, I want to start a simulation at night, I try to use ocean script to do that.

There is a parameter startTime in run(), But I try several time to use run(?startTime "hour:minute"), it does not 

work, simulation starts immediately. Can someone tell me how to do that?

      If run(?startTime xx:xx) does not work, what is the command in ocean to ask cadence hold for a while, for

example, 1 minute, 10 minute, so I can get the current time every 1 /10 minute to compare with the time I 

want to start simulation. 

 

thanks!

    

   

  • Hi,

    Have you considered trying "hiRegTimer" ?  It has two arguments, the first is a string of what you want to execute (so be careful, any string quotes in the function call would need to be escaped in this string argument to hiRegTimer) and the second argument is the delay before running the function, in 10ths of a second (e.g. 6000 would be 10 minutes).  I have not tried this out for Ocean scripts.

    hiRegTimer

    hiRegTimer(t_callbackStringx_tenthsofSeconds)=> t | nil

    Description

    Registers a SKILL function string that is executed after the specified time.

    Arguments

    t_callbackString
    		SKILL function name (string) that is to be executed after the specified time (x_tenthsofSeconds) has passed.
    x_tenthsofSeconds
    		Time, in tenths of seconds, after which the callback is executed.

     

    Hope this helps,

    Regards,

    Lawrence.

  •  I think you should set up a cronjob and let the operating system handle it.

     

    Marc

  • You can use run(?startTime "13:25") for example, but only when you're running in distributed mode. It doesn't work for local simulations.

    So if I have set up distributed processing (e.g. with LSF or SGE), and have hostMode('distributed) in the script, then ?startTime works fine (I just tried it).

    Andrew.

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