OpenStudio Analysis Gem

The OpenStudio Analysis Gem is used to communicate files to the OpenStudio Distributed Analysis.

The purpose of this gem is to generate the analysis.json file, analysis.zip, and communicate with the server to upload the simulations.

This gem does not create the cluster. Currently the only supported Cloud platform is Amazon AWS using either OpenStudio's PAT the openstudio-aws gem or using vagrant.

Instructions

There are two ways to create an OpenStudio Analysis description:

• Use the Excel Translator

• Programmatically

  analysis = OpenStudio::Analysis.create('Analysis Name')
  analysis.seed_model = 'local/dir/seed.osm'
  analysis.weather_file = 'local/dir/USA_CO_Golden-NREL.724666_TMY3.epw'
  
  # override existing workflow from a file by
  analysis.workflow = OpenStudio::Analysis::Workflow.load_from_file(...)
  
  # add measures to the workflow
  wf = analysis.workflow
  # def add_measure_from_path(instance_name, instance_display_name, local_path_to_measure)
  wf.add_measure_from_path('instance_name', 'Display name', 'path_to_measure')
  wf.add_measure_from_path('instance_name_2', 'Display name two', 'path_to_measure_2')
  
  # make a measure's argument a variable
  m = wf.add_measure_from_path('instance_name_3', 'Display name three', 'path_to_measure_3')
  m.make_variable('variable_argument_name', 'discrete')
  
  m = wf.add_measure_from_path('instance_name_4', 'Display name four', 'path_to_measure_4')
  m.make_variable('variable_argument_name', 'pivot')
  m.argument_value('variable_argument_name', value)
  
  # Save off the analysis files and a static data point
  run_dir = 'local/run'
  analysis.save("#{run_dir}/analysis.json")
  analysis.save_zip("#{run_dir}/analysis.zip")
  analysis.save_static_data_point("#{run_dir}/data_point.zip")
  

• Running Datapoints with Workflow Gem

  require 'openstudio-workflow'
  
  run_dir = 'local/run'
  OpenStudio::Workflow.extract_archive("#{run_dir}/analysis.zip", run_dir)
  
  options = {
      problem_filename: 'analysis.json',
      datapoint_filename: 'data_point.json',
      analysis_root_path: run_dir
  }
  k = OpenStudio::Workflow.load 'Local', run_dir, options
  k.run
  

• Server API

Testing

This gem used RSpec for testing. To test simply run bundle exec rspec at the command line.

Releasing

Follow the steps below when releasing a new version:

1. Update /lib/openstudio/analysis/version.rb to the next version. Make sure to follow semantic versioning.
2. Add changes to the CHANGELOG.md.
3. Run rubocop and make sure code meets coding standards.
4. Push release candidate on a branch.
5. Create a pull request to develop. Once the tests pass, merge into develop.
6. Create a pull request to master. Once tests pass, then merge into master.
7. Checkout master and run rake release

Todos

In the programmatic interface there are still several items that would be nice to have.

• Check the type of measure being added and make sure that it is in the right workflow (e.g. no energyplus measures before rubymeasures)
• add reverse translator from existing analysis.jsons
• more explicit run workflows. For example, add workflow steps for running energyplus, openstudio translator, radiance, etc

• more explicit assignment of the analyses that can run. This would be nice:

  a = OpenStudio::Analysis.create("new analysis")
  a.analysis_type('single_run')
  

• adding mulitple seed models

• adding multiple weather files