Working Directory

The working directory is used by the station to store working files. If you do not specify a working directory, the temporary directory (fiper.station.tempdir) is used instead.

Temporary file systems are often subject to periodic automatic cleanup. This is not appropriate for the directory specified by fiper.station.tempdir, but it is appropriate for fiper.station.workdir. If a station is running in an environment where there is only a little disk space available on non-temporary file systems and a great deal of space available on temporary file systems, fiper.station.tempdir should point to a directory on a non-temporary file system and fiper.station.workdir should point to a directory on a temporary file system.

  • Property name: fiper.station.workdir=<directory>

  • Command line argument: not available

Property file example:

fiper.station.workdir=/scratch/SEE/stationwork

If you are using Run-As mode, the working directory should be accessible to all users. The working directory must be on a disk with sufficient free space to hold all working files that will be written by SIMULIA Execution Engine jobs.