Running flair without graphical user interface on computer server

Flair
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Dear All, I’d like to run flair on my university’s super-computer server to parallel run FLUKA.

  1. I download the tar source code. Then upload it to server and extract it to get the flair-3.2 folder.
  2. cd flair-3.2
  3. make
    Has flair been completely installed now? But when I execute the flair, the error occurs, which says "No protocol specified couldn’t connect to display “:0.0”. ". How can I solve this problem?
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Dear Yuxuan,

I suggest you prepare your input file with help of flair on a personal computer. Then you run the *.inp file on the supercomputer with the rfluka script, which is found in the bin-directory under fluka.
More information on this under FLUKA on the command line | The official CERN FLUKA website

Best regards, Thomas

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Thanks for your nice advice. I have tried your advice and the problem seems to be worked out successfully. What I have done is the following, is it correct?

  1. I prepare my input file on a personal computer. That is, I modified the queue to “null”, then execute the run would only generate the input file without running.
  2. I uploaded these input files to supercomputer with rfluka script, submit several tasks(equal to the number of input .inp files).
  3. After the tasks terminated, I downloaded the generated files to my personal computer, and used flair to process them.

Is it a correct procedure to run a FLUKA job parallelly?

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If I understand your mail correctly, you did everything alright. Just one important point to generate meaningful results:
For parallel running you can launch several rfluka scripts at the same time, with different names of input files (e.g. example-01.inp, example-02.inp, …) and providing a different random number seed in every input file in the RANDOMIZ command. This process is automated by flair when you “spawn” input files.

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Thanks you very much! I generated the input files using flair “spawn” function. And I checked out the RANDOMIZ command for every input file, is “RANDOMIZ 1.0 1” for example_01.inp, " RANDOMIZ 1.0 2" for exapmle_02.inp, et al. I think it works correctly. Thanks again for your help.