Direct Simulation Report - CPU

Performance Analysis



Performance Analysis section displays information regarding:
  • the date and time of the initialization/termination and duration of the simulation.

  • the computer details corresponding to the computer resources used to run the simulation.

    the computer details are useful to assess your needs with Speos HPC.

Power Report



Power Report section lists the following information:
  • Number of emitted rays
  • Absorbed power corresponds to the power of the rays that are absorbed during the propagation by one element of the system.

  • Error power corresponds to the power of the rays that are lost to propagation error.

    For more information on the error types, refer to Propagation Errors.

  • Generated power corresponds to the power of the rays randomly emitted by the sources using Monte Carlo algorithm, during the direct simulation.

    Radiometric generated power is always equal to the radiometric power emitted by the sources.

    Photometric generated power is computed from the individual wavelengths of the Monte Carlo emitted rays.

    This value converges towards the photometric emitted power when the number of rays increases.

  • Power emitted by the sources corresponds to the user defined power of the sources that could be radiometric or photometric. When the user defined power is defined in radiometric unit, the photometric power is computed using the source's spectrum Watt to lumen ratio, and reciprocally.
  • Power of stopped rays corresponds to the power of the rays that are stopped during the propagation because they have reached the Maximum number of surface interactions.
  • Radiated power corresponds to the power of the rays that leave the system and that will not interact with it anymore.
Note: Error power and Power of stopped rays need to be carefully checked after a simulation as they need to be as low as possible to avoid biased result.

Error Report



Error Report section displays total number of errors and the list of the error types if any.

For more information on the error types, refer to Propagation Errors.

Results



Results section displays the preview of the results and their associated details, and the links to the results.

Luminaire Wattage



Luminaire Wattage section appears only if there is at least one Luminaire source in the simulation.

Geometry Report



Geometry Report section displays information regarding:
  • the number of geometries included in the simulation (number of faces/bodies)
  • the ray tracing technique used for the simulation
  • the body List which lists the geometries included in the simulation and their associated Optical Properties applied.

Simulation Parameters



Simulation Parameters section lists all the simulation settings with their input value.