Hi all, for clarity I just updated the title to "Multi-thread parallel simulations" and marked it complete. As you may be aware, water quality runs already support parallel processing for the water quality component of the computations. Meanwhile, the hydraulics are unfortunately restricted to be run on a single thread due to the matrix solver of equations which is consistent for all water distribution simulation engines.
Also we also added background processing of simulations so you can offload a long fire flow analysis or MSX run to the Simulation Task Manager while you continue to review results and work on your model.
Where multi-thread can add significant time savings for modelers is parallel simulations for fire flow, criticality, design, or calibration. This is in-progress on our public roadmap.
While this would only be applicable to InfoWater Pro as it is 64 bit b.c ArcGIS pro is 64 bit while regular InfoWater b.c ArcGIS 10x is 32 mit, this would be a very valuable tool.
You must have 64 bit programming to take advantage of multiple CPUs.
But for larger models and certain tasks that can easily be run concurrently this should definitely be explored and taken as full advantage of as much as possible to reduce building input files, running the model and writing output data..
Hi all, for clarity I just updated the title to "Multi-thread parallel simulations" and marked it complete.
As you may be aware, water quality runs already support parallel processing for the water quality component of the computations. Meanwhile, the hydraulics are unfortunately restricted to be run on a single thread due to the matrix solver of equations which is consistent for all water distribution simulation engines.
Also we also added background processing of simulations so you can offload a long fire flow analysis or MSX run to the Simulation Task Manager while you continue to review results and work on your model.
Where multi-thread can add significant time savings for modelers is parallel simulations for fire flow, criticality, design, or calibration. This is in-progress on our public roadmap.