Background: My project is to simulate common building types in California modified by openstudio measures and brute force search for the most cost effective ZNE building technology combinations. At this point, the openstudio measures have been written and we're ready to start the brute force search of the simulations. However, in order to use the algorithmic analysis in the Parametric Analysis Tool, I need to get some form of openstudio-server up and running. (Please correct me if I'm wrong in any way and there's an easier way to use the algorithmic analysis in PAT.)
The problem I have run into is all the instructions I've found for installing openstudio-server are extremely technical, outdated, incomplete, or non-existent. (To be fair, I haven't tried the installation instructions using Amazon AWS, but those instructions went way over my head. The people on this project are engineers after all, not computer scientists.)
To the developers: I know projects can run out of money or go over budget or etc. So does anyone recommend I start considering modifying all my measures to run independently of openstudio and side step that problem entirely?
To the users: Have any of you users of PAT successfully setup up PAT, openstudio-server, etc to use the algorithmic analysis to smartly explore all your measure combinations?
It's gonna suck to implement the algorithmic analysis of PAT without PAT or Openstudio, but beggars can't be choosers and we need to get our project done.
Thank you for any advice you can give.
Cheers,
Mitchal
