[Bldg-sim] current limitations in building energy modeling and simulation

[Geof Sawaya]

Hello Community,

Again, I am coming to you for input in my efforts to make EnergyPlus run
faster.

As Nathaniel Jones suggested, I would like to consider not just the current
bottlenecks in EnergyPlus simulations, which are ran from models generated
by designers considering the limitations of the software and its
capabilities; I would like to know where you would like to get more
detailed, precise or accurate data from a simulation run, but accept lesser
data in the interest of getting your job finished in a limited amount of
time.

To boil it down, I'll ask my question this way: *if you could choose one
area in EnergyPlus to speed up, what would it be?  Another way of putting
it: where would you like more detail in your models, but you simplify in
order to reduce simulation execution time?*
*
*
Many thanks for your help and Happy New Year --

Geof Sawaya
DOE Building Technologies Compute Fellow
EETD / BTD / Simulation Research Group
Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.onebuilding.org/pipermail/bldg-sim-onebuilding.org/attachments/20130104/e7a46a4c/attachment.htm>