Parallel processing of jobs with openstudio

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@macumber my intent is to use the runmanager with the python bindings, but I'd happy to use whatever the recommended workflow is. I have fairly large number of OSM files that I need to run and have access to a decent server.

I've found the workflow vs job vs jobfactory convention to be confusing. I've tried to follow the descriptions in the SDK documentation, but am still working through how to make it run my simulations in parallel.

I think this test shows how to run OSMs in a decent fashion, you could just enqueue several jobs before unpausing. This code snippet shows how to make a config options (that you could call setMaxLocalJobs on) and the pass that to the RunManager:

openstudio::runmanager::RunManager rm;
openstudio::runmanager::ConfigOptions co = rm.getConfigOptions();
co.findTools(true, false, true, true);
rm.setConfigOptions(co);

Are you just looking to run OSMs and not apply measures? Or are you looking to also apply measures?

@rhorsey is adding a method to the OS-spreadsheet to batch run predefined datapoints.

@jmcneill the batch run option in the OS-spreadsheet could be used for your use case with the ReplaceModel measure. If you come in next week we should give you an overview of that approach and see if it would work for you.