Dear Jason,
I want to run OpenFAST with Simulink for several thousand times to find an optimal value for controller. But it will take a very long time. So I want to use the parallel computing in MATLAB, but when I did this, MATLAB threw out an error:
Error reported by S-function ‘FAST_SFunc’ in ‘OPENFAST_OC4_PDEM_2/FAST Nonlinear Wind Turbine/S-Function’:
FAST_InitializeAll:FAST_Init:FAST_ReadPrimaryFile:OpenEcho:OpenFOutFile:Cannot open file
“E:\OPENFAST\r-test-master-2.4\cases\5MW_OC4Semi_WSt_WavesWN\5MW_OC4Semi_WSt_WavesWN.SFunc.ech”. Another program like MS Excel may have locked it for writing.
Could you tell me where the error is and how to solve it ? thanks a lot.
Best regards.
Dear Zhiheng,
I’m not familiar with parallel computing in MATLAB, but it sounds like you have two (or more) processes trying to write to the same output file (5MW_OC4Semi_WSt_WavesWN.SFunc.ech, located in your E:\OPENFAST\r-test-master-2.4\cases\5MW_OC4Semi_WSt_WavesWN directory) at the same time. You could certainly disable the writing of echo files (by setting Echo = FALSE in the various OpenFAST input files), but I expect that you’d just receive the same error with other output files. I would think that if you are running multiple simulations at the same time, they should write to different filenames or different directories.
Best regards,
Dear Jason
I wonder if I can make OpenFAST not generate the output files like .out and .sum files? And how can I change the filename or directory of the output files? Looking for your reply.
Best regards
Dear Zhiheng,
You can ensure that the OpenFAST output files (*.out etc.) have different file names and/or are written to different directories by ensuring that the input files have different names and/or are stored in different directories.
You can avoid generating the summary (*.sum) files altogether by setting the associated SumPrint flags to False in the OpenFAST driver code and various OpenFAST modules.
You can’t really disable the writing of the main time-series output file (*.out or *.outb) because generator those is the whole reason to run OpenFAST. That said, we are also working on a Python wrapper that will avoid writing output files altogether (the time-series output data is passed as an output array back to Python instead).
Best regards,