Command-line Interface

All usages and options of the command-line interface can be shown by executing batsim --help. We present some examples that shows how you can use and combine the different options of Batsim’s CLI. All examples suppose that you are locate in the root folder of Batim.

Note that we do not give examples of the scheduler command, as it depends on the scheduling implementation you use.

First run

A simple simulation with a small platform and only one computation job workload as input is done on the Batsim side with the command:

batsim -p platforms/small_platform.xml -w workloads/test_one_computation_job.json

Using dynamic jobs

If you want to enable Dynamic registration of jobs and profiles by your scheduler during the simulation and you want Batsim to acknowledge registered jobs, you can run:

batsim -p platforms/small_platform.xml -w workloads/test_one_computation_job.json \
    --enable-dynamic-jobs --acknowledge-dynamic-jobs

Using Redis

If you want to use Redis during your simulation and specify its hostname, you can run:

batsim -p platforms/small_platform.xml -w workloads/test_one_computation_job.json \
    --enable-redis --redis-hostname 123.246.0.4

Using external events

If you want to include External Events in your simulation with an input file containing external events know by Batsim and an input file containing generic events that you defined you can run:

batsim -p platforms/small_platform.xml -w workloads/test_one_computation_job.json \
    --events events/test_events_4hosts.txt \
    --events events/my_generic_events.txt --forward-unknown-events

Example with various options

Finally, if you want to simulate

  • a long workload and a worklaod for energy testing at the same time,

  • on the energy_platform.xml,

  • making host Mars a storage resource,

  • enabling sharing of the compute resources,

  • with redis enabled on the specified port 6789,

  • with energy support

  • an extra simgrid logging option to set the level of the energy pluggin as critical,

  • specifying a folder in the prefix of the output files,

  • specifying the socket endpoint to communicate with the scheduler,

  • batsim logging on debug level,

you can run:

batsim -p platforms/energy_platform.xml -w workloads/test_long_workload.json \
    -w workloads/test_energy_minimal_load100.json \
    --add-role-to-hosts Mars:storage \
    --enable-compute-sharing \
    --enable-redis --redis-port 6789 \
    -E --sg-log surf_energy.thresh:critical \
    --export simu_outputs/out \
    --socket-endpoint ipc://foobar \
    -v debug