[Radiance-general] Plotting a large number of simulations

[Randolph M. Fritz]

On 2012-02-27 22:46:33 +0000, Tim Perry said:

> This seems reasonable. I assume you have access to sufficient computing 
> resources. If not, read on....

Thanks.  We do--the Labs has a cluster, and we are one of its small 
users--, but this is interesting even so.

> If you need cheap resources recommend using Amazon's EC2 SPOT 
> instances. The SPOT instances are not guaranteed.  […]

> Out of curiosity, how many runs are you thinking of? Have you timed each step? 

In the thousands.  No, not timing them yet.  I am guessing in the hour 
or so for the final simulations; I have no idea yet for the mkillum and 
genbsdf runs.

> Good luck and let me know if this was helpful.

Thanks!

Randolph