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Modify Assembler Max Jobs on Frozen Virtuoso

dogman4

Hi,friends My Virtuoso has been completely frozen for several days, yet the simulations launched via Assembler are still running.
Now I want to increase the max jobs limit; is there any feasible solution?
In addition, can I adjust the max jobs if Virtuoso crashes while simulations keep running?
My virtuoso version: "@(#)$CDS: virtuoso version 6.1.8-64b 09/03/2024 19:11 (sjfhw316) $"
My spectre version: Version19.1.0.063 64bit--10 Aug 2019
thx in advance

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  • Andrew Beckett

    This is something that is available in IC23.1 and later if you have the "ADE Simulation Manager" capability (included in the ADE Artist tier in IC25.1). You can submit simulations and then these are managed by a background process, and you can exit the main Virtuoso session (or it could be killed/crash) and the simulations keep running and even unstarted simulations in the pool to be simulated will continue starting. You can then reconnect to the running session to update and modify settings, look at results and so on.

    There was some very limited support for keeping simulations running in IC6.1.8 via the:

    adexl.distribute  continueICRPRunOnAbruptGUIExit boolean t

    cdsenv var, but this needs to have been set (in .cdsenv or via .cdsinit) before ADE started. Even then, all this does is keep the simulations that have already started running even if the Virtuoso that launched them is killed; any unstarted simulations will not be started. You can't reconnect and observe simulations still running - all it would allow you to do is open the maestro/adexl view again later and view the history once the simulations have finished. This is nowhere near as smart a feature as the newer ADE Simulation Manager.

    So I think your options are quite limited, sorry!

    Andrew

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  • Andrew Beckett

    This is something that is available in IC23.1 and later if you have the "ADE Simulation Manager" capability (included in the ADE Artist tier in IC25.1). You can submit simulations and then these are managed by a background process, and you can exit the main Virtuoso session (or it could be killed/crash) and the simulations keep running and even unstarted simulations in the pool to be simulated will continue starting. You can then reconnect to the running session to update and modify settings, look at results and so on.

    There was some very limited support for keeping simulations running in IC6.1.8 via the:

    adexl.distribute  continueICRPRunOnAbruptGUIExit boolean t

    cdsenv var, but this needs to have been set (in .cdsenv or via .cdsinit) before ADE started. Even then, all this does is keep the simulations that have already started running even if the Virtuoso that launched them is killed; any unstarted simulations will not be started. You can't reconnect and observe simulations still running - all it would allow you to do is open the maestro/adexl view again later and view the history once the simulations have finished. This is nowhere near as smart a feature as the newer ADE Simulation Manager.

    So I think your options are quite limited, sorry!

    Andrew

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  • dogman4
    in reply to Andrew Beckett

    I'm pleased to see these upgrades in IC23.1, though unfortunately I don’t have access to it yet.

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