I am working on a HVAC energy consumption optimization matter
I want to use energy simulation programs such as IES or energy plus, the problem is that I need to run at least 10 thousand simulations with different inputs Which is not possible to do manually Therefore I wanted to know is there a possibility for changing the inputs in a predefined range with predefined steps and running simulations in an automative way?
See the following discussion related to cloud computing, EnergyPlus, Ladybug tools, etc.:
https://discourse.ladybug.tools/t/create-multiple-batch-files-so-i-can-run-them-parallel-on-a-128-processor-server/1328
Also, see this one regarding OpenStudio/EnergyPlus and cloud computing:
https://unmethours.com/question/11/what-tools-exist-in-the-market-to-do-energy-simulations-using-the-compute-cloud/
You can use EnergyPlus using the following steps:
1)You need to write a custom application by using programs such as Python, C Sharp, etc.
2) Reading a base IDF file, which is the format utilized by EnergyPlus which describes the simulation parameters, including mechanical systems operation.
3) Using the ANTLR platform, the parser will be created .
4) Having parsed in a text file and having it converted to programming objects, selected parameters will be changed using a combinatorial sequence and for each parameter a separate IDF file will be created.
5) Finally, each of these created files can be run through EnergyPlus across multiple computers or just using one supercomputer.
Dear Roham, regarding EnergyPlus you can use many tools as BeOpt or MOBO, you can find more details here:
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