Simulation Launcher

User Guide

2009.1

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Schlumberger ECLIPSE reservoir simulation software is protected by US Patents 6,018,497, 6,078,869 and 6,106,561, and UK Patents GB 2,326,747 B and GB 2,336,008. Patents pending.

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Contents
List of Figures ..... ...................................................................................................................................................................4 List of Tables ...... ...................................................................................................................................................................5

Chapter 1 - Introduction ................................................................................................................... 7

Overview............. ...................................................................................................................................................................7

Chapter 2 - Quick Start Guide ........................................................................................................ 11

Launching a simulation .........................................................................................................................................................11 Display simulation results .....................................................................................................................................................14 Launching a ECLIPSE Pre/Post program.............................................................................................................................16 Launching a manual or SIS application ................................................................................................................................17

Chapter 3 - Launcher Pane Adminstration ................................................................................... 19

Administration tasks .............................................................................................................................................................19

Chapter 4 - Simulation History ...................................................................................................... 29

Overview............. .................................................................................................................................................................29

Chapter 5 - Simulation Launcher Settings ................................................................................... 31

Settings............... .................................................................................................................................................................31 Simulation Launcher Settings ...............................................................................................................................................32 ECLRUN Settings .................................................................................................................................................................33 Enginframe settings ..............................................................................................................................................................34 Queue settings ... .................................................................................................................................................................35

Chapter 6 - Configuation ................................................................................................................ 37

Configuration File .................................................................................................................................................................37

Appendix A - Index ......................................................................................................................... 39

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List of Figures
Figure 1.1 Figure 2.1 Figure 2.2 Figure 2.3 Figure 2.4 Figure 2.5 Figure 2.6 Figure 3.1 Figure 3.2 Figure 3.3 Figure 3.4 Figure 3.5 Figure 4.1 Figure 5.1 Figure 5.2 Figure 5.3 Figure 5.4 ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... ........... Simulation Launcher .................................................................................................................................8 Running a simulation in the Simulation Launcher ...................................................................................12 Simulation Launcher Advanced Tab .......................................................................................................13 Simulation Launcher Results ..................................................................................................................14 Command line options ............................................................................................................................15 Message Filter ........................................................................................................................................15 Launching ECLIPSE Pre/Post programs ................................................................................................16 Adding a program ..................................................................................................................................21 Simulator Properties ...............................................................................................................................22 ECLIPSE Pre/Post Product Properties ...................................................................................................24 Manual Properties ...................................................................................................................................25 SIS Application properties......................................................................................................................26 Simulation history...................................................................................................................................29 Simulation Launcher Settings .................................................................................................................32 ECLRUN Settings ...................................................................................................................................33 Enginframe settings ................................................................................................................................34 Queue settings ........................................................................................................................................36

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List of Tables
Table 3.1 Table 3.2 Simulation Launcher Variables ................................................................................................................22 ECLIPSE Pre/Post Product Variables .....................................................................................................24

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Introduction Chapter 1

Overview
The Simulation Launcher is Window based software for running the ECLIPSE and FrontSim simulators and pre and post processors. The user interface is based on the Microsoft Windows standards on buttons and dialogs. This makes the Simulation Launcher familiar to the majority of reservoir engineers today and ensures efficient usage of the application The Simulation Launcher uses a utility called ECLRUN to run the programs mentioned. The Simulation Launcher supports the following simulation combinations: Remote Linux/UNIX system with LSF (Load Sharing Facility from Platform Computing) queue system Local submission to MS HPC on Windows Local queue system on Windows

Starting up simulation launcher the first time

The Simulation Launcher is installed automatically when ECLIPSE is installed. A desktop shortcut is provided and can also be located using the Start menu. When the Simulation Launcher is started for the first time this will take a little while to start. The reason for this is because the Simulation Launcher is checking what programs are installed on your machine. Once this process has finished a configuration file called SimLaunchConfig.xml is created in your user application data area. This file contains the data necessary to create program shortcuts of the programs you can use. Subsequent starting of the Simulation Launcher will not create a new configuration file if one exists and should start faster.

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User interface
The user interface is designed to give the average PC user a familiar look and feel. The Simulation Launcher consists of three main parts: The Launcher pane has the same look and feel as the Windows Explorer. Each program has an associated icon and these can be organized into Groups. The Display window. Displays input fields need to run the associated or properties of the program selected. The status of a simulation selected is also displayed within this window. The Simulation History pane displays the history of simulations that were launched by the user using ECLRUN.Simulation Launcher

Figure 1.1 Simulation Launcher

Menu Bar
The pull-down menus are listed on the Menu bar at the top, and should be familiar for most users. To open a pull-down menu click on the menu with the left mouse button.

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To perform any of the functions in the menu, click on it with the left mouse button.

File pull down menu

New Group will create a new group in the Launcher pane. New Program allows you to choose a program you wish to add to the Launcher pane. Exit closes the application

Configuration pull down menu

Settings include options of the simulation launcher, ECLRUN, Enginframe and Queue definition for remote submission jobs. Get Latest Versions updates all the versions of the programs listed in the Launcher pane Simulators resets the Simulators group back to factory defaults ECLIPSE Pre/Post Programs resets the ECLIPSE Pre/Post Programs group back to factory defaults

Window pull down menu

Close All Windows closes all active tabs which are open Each tab that is currently displayed is also available from this menu.

Note

Help
Manual opens the manual in Adobe Acrobat. Diagnostics shows system information for troubleshooting.

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Quick Start Guide Chapter 2

Launching a simulation
The following procedure explains how to run a simulation using one of the following simulators ECLIPSE, E300 or FrontSim.

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Figure 2.1 Running a simulation in the Simulation Launcher

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Select ECLIPSE from the Simulators group. Click on Add Dataset and then browse for the dataset you wish to use. You can select multiple datasets from the browse screen. Select a queue from the dropdown list. Local will run the simulation on your machine. If you have set up other queues, these will also be available for selection. (See "Add or delete a queue" on page 36). Latest will work out the most up to date installed version of the simulator you have chosen on your machine or the remote machine

Select a version from the dropdown list.

Click on Run.

Advanced tab
The Advanced tab as shown below allows you to further customize the way you wish to run the simulation. Quick Start Guide Launching a simulation Simulation Launcher User Guide

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Figure 2.2 Simulation Launcher Advanced Tab

Override Default Exe on a 64 bit machine if a 64bit simulator exists this will be used by default to run the simulation. However it is possible you may want to run the 32bit simulator instead this option allows you to do this. This option is not enabled if t your OS is 32bit because a 64bit exe will not work.

Note

Edit Command Line Options this allows you to pass additional commands to ECLRUN. Please check the documentation for ECLRUN.

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Display simulation results

If you have started a new simulation or selected a dataset from the Simulation History (see "Simulation History" on page 29 a new tab opens. The following image is a example:
Figure 2.3 Simulation Launcher Results

The selected tab will display the contents of the message file. This tab has a number of buttons these include: Open Log displays the screen output from the Simulator in your chosen default editor for.LOG files. Open PRT displays the PRT file in your chosen default editor for .PRT files. Update performs a check on the status of the simulation and update any results to the grid (this may take some time if running the simulation remotely). If the simulation has failed, aborted or finished then this button is disabled. Terminate/Run. If the simulation is still running you can stop the process. If the simulation is not running this button displays Run which allows you to run the simulation again, using the syntax specified in the Command Line Options box.

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With Debug Mode, if you check this option and click on Run a command console will be displayed with the debug information from ECLRUN running the simulation. This information can be used to help provide support if you have problems running datasets. Automatically update every X mins performs the same function has Update at intervals specified. The default interval can be changed see "Simulation Launcher Settings" on page 31.

Command Line Options

Command Line Options displays the command used to run the simulation.
Figure 2.4 Command line options

Message filter
The Message Filter allows you to search for specify text with the grid. By default you see all messages types within the grid these can be filtered by check/unchecking the appropriate message types.
Figure 2.5 Message Filter

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Launching a ECLIPSE Pre/Post program

The following procedure explains how to run an ECLIPSE Pre/Post program. 1 2 3 4 Select FloGrid from the ECLIPSE Pre/Post Group Click on Browse and then select a start directory which the ECLIPSE Pre/Post program will use as initial directory. Select a version from the dropdown list. Latest will work out the most up to date installed version of the program you have chosen on your machine or the remote machine Click on Run. This will launch the selected program in another window.
Figure 2.6 Launching ECLIPSE Pre/Post programs

Override Default Exe. On a 64 bit machine if a 64bit version of the program exists this will be used by default. However it is possible you may want to run the 32bit version instead this option allows you to do this. This option is not enabled if the you OS is 32bit because a 64bit exe will not work.

Note

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Launching a manual or SIS application

Selecting these programs in the Launcher pane, starts these programs in a new window. To add a SIS application see "Adding a Program" on page 20.

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Launcher Pane Adminstration Chapter 3

Administration tasks
You can carry out the following tasks in the Launcher pane: "Adding a Group" on page 19 "Rename a Group" on page 20 "Remove a Group" on page 20 "Adding a Program" on page 20 "Properties for Simulators" on page 21 "Properties for ECLIPSE Pre/Post" on page 23 "Properties for Manuals" on page 25 "Properties for SIS Application or Other program" on page 26 "Rename a Program" on page 26 "Remove a Program" on page 27

Adding a Group
Groups are a convenient way to organize programs in the Simulation Launcher. For example you can create a Results Viewer group which can contain the FloViz and ECLIPSE Office programs. 1 To add a Group follow one of the steps below; 2 On the File menu, point to New, and then click New Group. Right-click on existing group, and then click on Add Group. Right-click on empty space in the Launcher pane, and then click on Add Group.

When you have followed one of the steps above you can enter new group name, please make sure that the group names are unique. Launcher Pane Adminstration Administration tasks

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Rename a Group
1 2 3 In the Launcher pane, right-click the group you want to rename. Click Rename. Type the new group name, and then press Enter.

Remove a Group
1 2 3 In the Launcher pane, right-click the group you want to remove. Click Remove. Click Yes to confirm the deletion of the group and all of its contents. If you remove a group that has programs, these programs are not deleted from your system simply removed from the Launcher pane.

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Adding a Program
You can add programs to the Launcher pane, these can either be copies of the default set of programs that you have customized or you can add other SIS applications. 1 To add a Program follow one of the steps below; On the File menu, point to New, and then click New Program. Right-click on existing group, and then click on Add Program.

When you have followed one of the steps above you should see the following;

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Figure 3.1 Adding a program

Select the program you wish to add and click on Add Program. The programs available to add will depend upon what programs you have installed on your local computer. The Other option in the list allows you to add any other SIS application.

Once you have clicked on Add Program the next screen that will be shown is the properties of that program, see "Properties for Simulators" on page 21.

Properties for Simulators

This displays the details of the program and allows you customize the display. You can view the properties of a simulator by right-clicking on the simulator, and then pressing Properties. When you view the properties of one of the simulators the following will be displayed;

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Figure 3.2 Simulator Properties

Name of Program allows you to change the name of the program. The Submit, Fetch (load results), and Kill (abort) Commands define the way the Simulation Launcher administers simulations. Words surrounded by '%' are variables, replaced by Simulation Launcher when a simulation is run according to the queue that has been selected and other information you enter in the Simulation Launcher. Sequences surrounded by [ ] are only written if Simulation Launcher has a non-blank value for the variable enclosed.

Recognized variables are: Table 3.1 Variable

%DATAFILE% %VERSION% %SERVER% %USERID%

Simulation Launcher Variables Definition

Name of the data file for the simulation Version of the simulator to run Machine to submit the simulation to Userid on the %SERVER%

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Table 3.1 Variable

%PASSWORD% %QUEUE% %OPTIONS%

Simulation Launcher Variables Definition

Password on the %SERVER% Name of queue in LSF or other queuing system Any options you like to pass to ECLRUN, queuing system and the exe. (See "Command syntax" in the "ECLRUN User Guide".)

Default Start Directory, this is the initial directory that you will see when you click on Add a Dataset (see "Launching a simulation" on page 11). Versions allows you set the default version to use of the program selected. Get Installed Version detects all installed versions of the program selected and updates the Versions list. Command Line Parameters allows you to store command line options which are passed to ECLRUN using the %OPTIONS% variable.

Properties for ECLIPSE Pre/Post

This will show the details of the program and allows you to customize the properties. You can view the properties of a program by right-clicking on the program, and then selecting Properties. When you view the properties of one of the ECLIPSE Pre/Post the following will be displayed;

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Figure 3.3 ECLIPSE Pre/Post Product Properties

Name of Program allows you to change the name of the program. The Start Command defines the way the Simulation Launcher will launch the program. Words surrounded by '%' are variables, replaced by Simulation Launcher when a simulation is run according to the queue that has been selected and other information you enter in the Simulation Launcher. Sequences surrounded by [ ] are only written if Simulation Launcher has a non-blank value for the variable enclosed.

Recognized variables are: Table 3.2 Variable %STARTDIR%

%VERSION% %OPTIONS%

ECLIPSE Pre/Post Product Variables Definition

Name of the directory the program will open files from Version of the program to run Any options you like to pass to ECLRUN, queuing system and the exe. (See "Command syntax" in the "ECLRUN User Guide")

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Default Start Directory this is the initial directory that you will see when you click on Browse (see "Launching a ECLIPSE Pre/Post program" on page 16). Versions allows you to set the default version to use of the program selected. Get Installed Version detects all installed versions of the program selected and updates the Versions list.

Properties for Manuals

This shows the details of the program and allow you to change the default manual to view. You can view the properties of a program by right-clicking on the manual, and then selecting Properties.

When you view the properties of one of the manuals the following will be displayed;
Figure 3.4 Manual Properties

Name of Program allows you to change the name of the program. Manual to View allows you to change the default manual you would like to view.

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Properties for SIS Application or Other program

This will show the details of the program and allow you to change the program you would like to start. You can view the properties of a program by right-click on it, and then selecting Properties. When you view the properties of one of the SIS programs or when adding Other program the following will be displayed;
Figure 3.5 SIS Application properties

Name of Program allows you to change the name of the program. Program to Run is the path to the executable you would like to start from the Simulation Launcher. Command Line Parameters allows you to enter any options that you would like to pass to the executable selected above.

Rename a Program
1 In the Launcher pane, right-click the program you want to rename.

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Click Rename. Type the new program name, and then press Enter.

Remove a Program
1 2 3 In the Launcher pane, right-click the program you want to remove. Click Remove. Click Yes to confirm the deletion of the program If you remove a program this is not deleted from your system simply removed from the Launcher pane.

Note

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Simulation History Chapter 4

Overview
The Simulation History displays the status of all simulations run by you.
Figure 4.1 Simulation history

The default number of items is 100 this can be changed in Simulation Launcher settings (see "Simulation Launcher Settings" on page 31). When this number is reached it will delete the oldest finished simulation from the list. By checking or un-checking View column will display a new tab with the current status and results of the simulation (see "Display simulation results" on page 14) By double-clicking on a row will also result in opening a new tab and double clicking again on the same row will close the tab. By clicking on this button the results will be updated.

Note

Note you cannot update the results if a tab with the results is already open you will need to click update on the tab itself.

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By clicking on this button

the history item will be deleted from the list.

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Note you cannot remove the history item if a tab with the results is already open you will need to close the tab first.

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Simulation Launcher Settings Chapter 5

Settings
You can change the settings by clicking on the settings in the Configuration pull down menu. The Settings dialog includes options for changing the: "Simulation Launcher Settings" on page 32; "ECLRUN Settings" on page 33, "Enginframe settings" on page 34 and Queue definition for remote submission jobs, see "Queue settings" on page 35.

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Simulation Launcher Settings

Network Configuration File allows you add a network configuration file which contains settings for the simulation launcher (see "Configuration File" on page 37) Display Local Simulation displays a command console when running a simulation locally Interval check the default number in minutes between checks on the Simulation Results tab. Number of Items in History File number of items to display in the Simulation History pane.

Figure 5.1 Simulation Launcher Settings

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ECLRUN Settings
Use License Aware Scheduling in LSF - LSF option not sure what it does Number of Simulation Processes to Run Currently this is the number of simulations that can be run at once on your local Windows machine. It defaults to real number of CPU cores available if not enabled. Only enable this option if you wish to override the default behavior of ECLRUN (See "Configuration file" in the "ECLRUN User Guide") Intel MPI Path ECLRUN automatically detects the installation of the Intel MPI. If so some reason ECLRUN cannot detect the path enter path in this box. Queue System - syntax: server_1:[LSF|CCS],,server_n:[LSF,CCS]. If specified submission server is on the list then ECLRUN ignores the default mechanism of choosing remote queue system. This variable is intended for future expansion. In this version of ECLRUN it has no effect, as this version of ECLRUN always uses LSF when submitting to remote queue.

Figure 5.2 ECLRUN Settings

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Enginframe settings
Enginframe Path this is the last part of web address of the EnginFrame Web Service which follows the port number. Defaults to 'enginframe'. Enginframe Port this is the port number under which the EnginFrame Web Service is available on remote server. Defaults to '8080'. Enginframe use SSL indicates if secured or unsecured connection of the EnginFrame Web service is required.

Figure 5.3 Enginframe settings

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Queue settings
Name a name for the queue definition. This will be listed in the drop-down menu in queues when submitting a simulation. Server the server address for the machine where the simulation should be submitted. Leave empty for local runs. Replaces %SERVER% in a command. Remote queue queue for the remote server machine. Replaces %QUEUE% in a command. Userid and Password: This information is only kept until Simulation Launcher exits. Replaces %USERID% and %PASSWORD% in a command. This information is only kept until Simulation Launcher exits, and you will need to re-type the userid and password when you re-run Simulation Launcher. You will need to re-type the userid and password when you re-run Simulation Launcher. If Userid or Password is not supplied, but is required by the command, you will be prompted for this information when the simulation is submitted on the remote machine.

Note

If you tick the check box Use same logon for all servers, you only need to enter the userid and password once. Otherwise, each queue that uses a different server will need the userid and password to be entered.

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Figure 5.4 Queue settings

Add or delete a queue

To add a queue, click the Add a new queue button and fill in its details in the boxes on the right of the dialog. To delete a queue, select it in the list on the left and click the Remove selected queue button

Set the Default queue

Select the required default queue in the list and click the Default button below the list. The queue that is selected as default will be used for new simulation runs.

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Configuation Chapter 6

Configuration File
All the groups and programs in the Launcher pane and settings of the simulation launcher are stored in a configuration file. The first time you run Simulation Launcher and exit, the file will be created in the folder:
%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Schlumberger\Simulation Launcher

If %USERPROFILE% has not been changed on your system, in practice that will mean here:
Windows XP

C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Schlumberger\Simulation Launcher C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\ Schlumberger\Simulation Launcher Or C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\ Schlumberger\Simulation Launcher

Windows Vista

The file is called SimLaunchConfig.xml. To distribute standardized settings you can make a common version of this file for all users. 1 2 First of all set up the Simulation Launcher correctly for one user. Then make a copy of your SimLaunchConfig.xml and distribute it to the %ALLUSERSPROFILE% of all the machines, which means here (unless their system administrator has changed the defaults): C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\ Schlumberger\Simulation Launcher\ C:\ProgramData\ Schlumberger\Simulation Launcher

Windows XP

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You could also copy the SimLaunchConfig.xml file to a network location which is accessible by all users, and make this file read-only if you do not want them to be able to edit this file. This will you allow to be able to administer the settings for the simulation launcher for all your users. For example you may want to add or remove queues and this can be done from the network file rather than visiting each user individually. To apply the network configuration file to a end-user from simulation launcher settings (see simulation launcher settings) you can browse to this location and select this file and restart the simulation launcher to apply these settings.

Simulation Launcher can read all three configuration files user, all user and network. Simulation Launcher merges the configuration files on startup. Any setting of the same name defined in the network file will override those in the All User file, and both will override settings of the same name defined in the User file. In some cases some settings will be read-only because they exist in network or All User file and cannot be changed. The Diagnostics dialog will display each of the configuration files if they exist and also the merged configuration file in memory this can be useful for support personnel. All settings can be changed using the simulation launcher but there is one setting you have to change directly within the xml file.
<AllowEdit>True</AllowEdit>

This xml tag allows you to add programs and groups to the Launcher pane. It also allows you to edit the properties of programs and update the installed versions of those programs. Together with changing any of the options under the settings dialog. Note By setting this to False all these features will be disabled. A system administrator may want to do this in the network or All User configuration files to prevent the user customizing the Simulation Launcher.

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Index Appendix A
A
Advanced tab . . . . . . . . . . 12

G
Group Adding . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Removing . . . . . . . . . 20 Renaming . . . . . . . . . 20

P
Program Adding . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Removing . . . . . . . . . 27 Renaming . . . . . . . . . 26 Properties . . . . . . 21, 25 to 26

C
Command Line Options . . . 15 Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Configuration file . . . . . . . 37

K
Kill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Q
Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Queue settings . . . . . . . . . 35

E
ECLRUN Settings . . . . . . . 33 Enginframe settings . . . . . . 34 EPP Product Variables . . . . 24 EPP program . . . . . . . . . . 16

L
Launcher Settings . . . . . . . 32

S
Settings dialog . . . . . . . . . 31 Simulation History . . . .14, 29 Simulation Launcher . . . . . . 7 Simulation Launcher Variables22 Simulators . . . . . . . . . . 11, 21 SIS Application . . . . . . . . 26 SIS application . . . . . . . . . 17 Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Submit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

M
Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Menu Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Message Filter . . . . . . . . . . 15

F
Fetch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

O
Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

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U
User interface. . . . . . . . . . . .8

W
Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

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