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Remote Control Window
To work with parallel processing, you need to select ”remote” under the ”Tool” menu on
the Habplan main form. This will open the Remote Control window (Figure 16). You enter
the names of your server machines or their IP addresses in the server column. Servers were
created as per the instructions . Double click on a server name and then click to the right of
it to select the server. The currently selected server shows in yellow. In the Figure below,
the selection is my.bigger.machine: server1. This means that if you push the ”Submit”
button, you will send a job to server1 on my.bigger.machine. Usually, you would only have
1 server per machine, but you are allowed to have 6. Change the number in the ID column
to indicate if there are multiple servers on a single machine. Checking the ”Hide” column
will keep the server from printing things in the Habplan Console on the server, which could
disturb another user sitting at the server. Habplan automatically puts a check in the Send
or Retrieve column to help you remember the most recent request made to each server.
Figure 16: Example of remote control window
The job you submit is exactly the job that you currently have set up on the client machine.
Usually, you would first work on the client to develop an objective function and a starting
point schedule. Then set the number of iterations and submit this as a job to a server. The
server will begin with your starting schedule and run the specified number of iterations in