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[BOK10 at pitt.edu]

I'm using time intervals of 5.0 years. I just ran the model again and got
matching answers. I was using FIATSimplex rather than FIATLagrange. The
values i've gotten now that both are FIATLagrange are nearly identical.

Bobak

> Bobak,
>
> How are you specifying the time interval in the output? If you are using
> a specified time interval, then the issue is roundoff errors associated
> with converting between nondimensional and dimensional units for time.
> When requesting output at a specified time interval we recommend using
> something like 49.9999*years rather than 50.0*years to insure you get
> the output at the desired interval.
>
> Brad
>
>
> On 10/26/2012 10:45 AM, BOK10 at pitt.edu wrote:
>>
>> So, the time steps are being written fine, it's the time stamps in the
>> output itself. I have the results being output as vtk files. In version
>> 1.7 I was getting estimates of ~50 years greater than in version 1.8
>> before slip began. The problem I was mentioning isn't with the output
>> files, but with the results.
>>
>> Bobak
>>
>>
>>> Bobak,
>>>
>>> What do you mean by different time stamps? Are you seeing different
>>> time
>>> steps being written to stdout or different time stamps in the output?
>>> If
>>> it is in the output, which type of output are you using and which files
>>> have different time stamps.
>>>
>>> I ran examples/3d/hex8/step12.cfg with both v1.7.1 and v1.8.0 and the
>>> differences are essentially negligible.
>>>
>>> Brad
>>>
>>> On 10/26/2012 10:03 AM, BOK10 at pitt.edu wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm running a simulation similar to step12 (section 7.8.7.4 of the
>>>> PyLith
>>>> manual) with PyLith 1.8. I've also run the same model in PyLith 1.7. I
>>>> was
>>>> looking to see how long it took get slip of greater than some amount
>>>> on
>>>> the fault, but the same model/setup run in 1.7 vs 1.8 are resulting in
>>>> different time-stamps. Was there a fix that caused this change?
>>>>
>>>> Bobak Karimi
>>>>
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