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2024-04-25 09:09:22 -0500 commented question PAT Summary Table empty in Manual Mode (GET DATAPOINT OUT.OSW ERROR)

sorry, just seeing this. The example project in the PAT repo are very old and I dont think those measures work anymore.

2024-04-13 08:36:54 -0500 answered a question How can I generate an eQuest "parms" equivalent in OpenStudio?

There are notebooks here that document how to use the various SDK and CLI methods to run parametric analyses using OSAF.

2024-03-21 08:10:47 -0500 commented question Parametric Analysis Tool Completed Datapoint Failure

those are the logs for the server backend. The sdp_log_file (toggle view) link doesnt show a log or an error in your mi

2024-02-19 09:42:58 -0500 commented question Parametric Analysis Tool Completed Datapoint Failure

look in your project folder, in the datapoint run directories for run logs and .err files

2024-01-17 19:03:47 -0500 commented answer datapoint failure error in PAT

i'm sad to say but 3.7.0 also got packaged with the wrong energyplus version. We had a change in personnel and have bee

2024-01-08 09:14:07 -0500 commented question OpenStudio PAT Worker Initialization Failed

is this a shared drive or something? I would expect the path to be 'c:\ something something', instead its 'JCl_LenexaKS

2023-10-25 16:13:16 -0500 commented answer How to resolve PAT "server failed to start" error?

also, try using the latest 3.6.1-1 release.

2023-10-25 16:11:50 -0500 commented answer How to resolve PAT "server failed to start" error?

this will sound silly, but reboot your computer to kill any zombie ruby processes from previous failed startups. copy th

2023-07-15 07:23:03 -0500 commented answer datapoint failure error in PAT

navigate using the OSAF GUI (view server button from PAT), to the datapoint page for the failed datapoint.you do that by

2023-07-14 12:56:36 -0500 commented answer datapoint failure error in PAT

what about the other log files in the datapoint zip?

2023-06-30 13:34:33 -0500 answered a question EnergyPlus error when running model in PAT

3.6.1 was released with the wrong version of EnergyPlus. 3.6.1-1 was just released to fix that issue.

2023-06-30 13:32:38 -0500 answered a question datapoint failure error in PAT

PAT 3.6.0 and 3.6.1 have an issue where they were packaged with the wrong version of EnergyPlus. 3.6.1-1 was just relea

2023-06-30 13:29:54 -0500 commented answer Run-on-Cloud Analysis Error

just added a link to some slides which include tips on how to debug

2023-06-30 13:29:27 -0500 edited answer Run-on-Cloud Analysis Error

That error message on the Admin page was just cosmetic and is safe to ignore. It was fixed a few versions ago issue her

2023-06-29 12:27:30 -0500 edited answer parametric analysis tool energy plus version error

OS 3.6.0 Should use EnergyPlus 23.1 compatibility matrix. PAT 3.6.1 is getting re-released since it had the wrong ver

2023-06-29 06:48:42 -0500 commented question datapoint failure error in PAT

i would be looking for the datapoint simulation log and the energyplus .err file. Those are avail from a datapoint page

2023-06-28 14:38:39 -0500 commented question datapoint failure error in PAT

really need more information than that, but you can start by viewing the server in a webpage. from there you can downlo

2023-06-28 07:35:43 -0500 commented answer Run-on-Cloud Analysis Error

the analysis error can be debugged on the Analysis GUI page. theres a link to see the 'log' just to the right of the li

2023-06-27 07:46:08 -0500 answered a question Run-on-Cloud Analysis Error

That error message on the Admin page was just cosmetic and is safe to ignore. It was fixed a few versions ago issue

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2023-06-27 07:43:22 -0500 commented question Run-on-Cloud Analysis Error

you can ignore that CLI version error, that was fixed in later updates

2023-06-27 07:42:16 -0500 commented question Run-on-Cloud Analysis Error

okay, that method to start/stop AWS resources was deprecated. That relied on older EC2 instances which are increasingly

2023-06-26 14:52:57 -0500 commented question Run-on-Cloud Analysis Error

are you running in the local PAT server? or using a cluster stood up by using the helm charts (or your own docker swarm

2023-06-26 14:52:01 -0500 answered a question OpenStudio Server JSON path

looks like you have it correctly. The 'directory to include' will get added to the project.zip file and submitted to th

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2023-06-08 09:04:00 -0500 commented answer parametric analysis tool energy plus version error

try using PAT 3.5.1. its best to use the same version of all the tools.

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2023-06-07 12:46:35 -0500 answered a question parametric analysis tool energy plus version error

OS 3.6.0 uses EnergyPlus 23.1 compatibility matrix.

2023-03-27 09:55:50 -0500 answered a question What optimization software is there for building optimization?

The OpenStudio Analysis Framework OSAF can do optimization for BEM/BPS.

2023-01-20 10:48:56 -0500 answered a question Energy Model Calibration Workflow

We created methods for calibration with OpenStudio models and had some examples in this repo: That workflow is now depr

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2022-12-13 13:04:55 -0500 commented answer What reporting measure should I use in a sensitivity analysis with the Morris method on the PAT to have boxing plots showing me which variable is most influential?

That sounds correct. An example OSA can be found here. The output variable section defines the output variables and whi

2022-11-07 08:24:02 -0500 commented question PAT calibration project - performance and parallelization

sounds like you are doing the right things. If speed is important, then make sure you are only reporting the variables

2022-11-03 07:55:05 -0500 commented question PAT calibration project - performance and parallelization

ah, its coming back to me. sorry its been 6 years. there is an argument 'verbose_messages'. This is very useful to ge

2022-10-27 14:12:54 -0500 commented question PAT calibration project - performance and parallelization

Sorry to be brief as I am traveling, but all the algorithms run in parallel. My recommendation is to choose a better in

2022-10-27 14:12:10 -0500 commented question PAT calibration project - performance and parallelization

All the algorithms run in parallel. My recommendation is to choose a better instance type, with more cores, etc.

2022-09-27 17:17:05 -0500 answered a question What reporting measure should I use in a sensitivity analysis with the Morris method on the PAT to have boxing plots showing me which variable is most influential?

you can use any reporting measure you want. The important part is to define the variable as an 'Objective Function', as

2022-08-17 11:27:00 -0500 commented question PAT job stuck in post-processing

check the Rserve log to make sure the algorithm completed and didnt crash when trying to compute some finalization metri

2022-07-13 07:18:04 -0500 commented answer Is there any documentation on using python bindings for openstudio measures?

there is a repo that can create OSAs from OSWs, here

2022-07-12 11:49:30 -0500 commented answer EnergyPLus multi-objective and calibration optimization

The code is open source and free to use. You can stand up your own local server if you are familiar with Docker contain

2022-07-12 11:35:32 -0500 commented answer EnergyPLus multi-objective and calibration optimization

OSAF is the framework (F) which encompasses PAT/OS-Server. OS-Server is the actual server which runs the models.

2022-07-12 07:45:24 -0500 commented answer Datapoint failure running every sample project in PAT on Kubernete Cluster on AWS

these notebooks have examples that use the meta_cli. they are in active development right now

2022-07-08 11:35:08 -0500 commented answer Is there any documentation on using python bindings for openstudio measures?

i see, that is an OSA.json which describes the OSW workflow (list of measures and arguments) as well as the algorithm an

2022-07-07 15:54:26 -0500 commented answer Is there any documentation on using python bindings for openstudio measures?

the meta_cli is a ruby file, however in the ruby notebooks, we are just doing system calls which look like: "/opt/OpenS

2022-07-07 15:54:02 -0500 commented answer Is there any documentation on using python bindings for openstudio measures?

the meta_cli is a ruby file, however in the ruby notebooks, we are just doing system calls which look like: "/opt/OpenS

2022-07-06 13:57:43 -0500 commented answer Is there any documentation on using python bindings for openstudio measures?

python measures are currently in development.

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2022-07-06 12:51:49 -0500 answered a question Datapoint failure running every sample project in PAT on Kubernete Cluster on AWS

The PAT/sample_project files have not been updated in quite some time, so i think the errors you are getting is that the

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2022-06-14 10:42:22 -0500 answered a question Disk use in openstudio server

this is a local deployment on your own hardware? for the deployment issues: check for dangling volumes, instances and c