<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">What sort of machine are you running on, and are you running in parallel? I'm not sure what your problem size is, but 80 time steps shouldn't take that long to run, unless it's a very nonlinear problem. How large is your mesh, and what sort of rheology are you using?<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Charles</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 7/03/2013, at 11:36 AM, <a href="mailto:BOK10@pitt.edu">BOK10@pitt.edu</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Charles,<br><br>It takes pretty long for a simulation to finish processing, and I was<br>hoping to split the simulation up into parts so I can come back to it<br>later. It's not a necessity, but more a convenience issue.<br><br>I think I'll just continue on with running it overnight.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Bobby<br><br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">Hi Bobby,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I'm not quite sure what you have in mind. If you're running any sort of<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">viscoelastic problem, you would need to save the entire state at the end<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">of each run. I don't see what benefit there would be from doing this,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">since you would still need to finish each run to get all the state<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">variables at the end of each chunk, and then feed them into the next<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">simulation as initial state variables.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">If your problem is completely elastic, I suppose you could run them in the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">way you're suggesting, and then use linear superposition to obtain the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">final result. What is your reason for wanting to break up the simulation?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Cheers,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Charles<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On 7/03/2013, at 11:22 AM, <a href="mailto:BOK10@pitt.edu">BOK10@pitt.edu</a> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Is it possible to split a simulation into parts? I'm running my model<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">for<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">400 years at 5 year time intervals, but is it possible to split it to<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">100<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">year chunks and run them serially?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Bobby<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">CIG-SHORT mailing list<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:CIG-SHORT@geodynamics.org">CIG-SHORT@geodynamics.org</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://geodynamics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cig-short">http://geodynamics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cig-short</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Charles A. 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