NREL / SolarPILOT

SolarPILOT power tower layout and optimization tool
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Parametrics efficiency drops after running more than 200 different variations #41

Open sacorbet97 opened 5 years ago

sacorbet97 commented 5 years ago

I'm trying to simulate different field layouts with around 8 variables at max 3 levels, and my total variation count is around 6500. I've tried to assign more CPUs to the process, but it doesn't get beyond 12% of CPU usage. It also goes really fast for the first 200 or so variations, then slows down to about 1/10 of the speed.

If I am using too many variations I'm happy to cut it down, but maybe is there a way to increase the processing speed? Is there a max limit to the number of variations that SolarPILOT is capable of handling?