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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 4, 2025

Effective management of simulation Jobs ( viz identifying #simulations running at any time)

Customer is looking for a feature to 

- Identify the number of simulation’s running and their status (e.g. “RUNNING”) in DC Runner at any point in time. 

- To manage the simulation batch jobs effectively e.g. queuing or rejecting the simulation request (where for e.g. say #5 simulations are already running) 

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Sep 19, 2025

    We have a sizeable number of business users running simulations over decision runner at any point in time. These simulations can typically range a few million scenarios and a few of them may be on the go at any point in time taking anywhere between a 5mts to 5 hours.


    To better manage the limited system resources on the m/c running the decision service we intend to limit the number of simulations that can be allowed to be initiated at any point in time especially when there is a pressing demand of simulations already running and the system resources are under a stretch.


    This may have been covered by some documentation that we have not come across yet, but we get some advice on least intrusive approaches (without BC or Decision Runner apps customisations) on:


    - How we can identify #simulation’s running and their status (e.g. “RUNNING”) in DC Runner at any point in time.


    - Any references that may help us manage the simulation batch jobs effectively e.g. queuing or rejecting the simulation request (where for e.g. say #5 simulations are already running)



    It is to be noted that we use the CDI interface where a decision runner application is running on dedicated XU pool and a decision engine that is running locally on the same m/c.



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