The main documentation page for this project is located at http://docs.gridlabd.us/.

Important Note

This repository is SLAC National Accelerator's version of HiPAS GridLAB-D. Only SLAC projects may contribute to this repository. Changes made in this repository will be migrated back to the original GridLAB-D repository at PNNL's discretion.

User quick start

The preferred method of using SLAC releases of GridLAB-D is to download the SLAC master image from docker hub (see https://cloud.docker.com/u/gridlabd/repository/docker/gridlabd/slac-master). You must install the docker daemon to use docker images. See https://www.docker.com/get-started for details.

Once you have installed docker, you may issue the following commands to run GridLAB-D at the command line:

  host% docker run -it -v $PWD:/model gridlabd/slac-master gridlabd -W /model [load-options] [filename.glm] [run-options] 

On many systems, an alias can be used to make this a simple command that resemble the command you would normally issue to run a host-based installation:

  host% alias gridlabd='docker run -it -v $PWD:/model gridlabd/slac-master gridlabd -W /model'

Note that this alias will interfere with the host-based installation.

Developer quick start

Note: This fork of GridLAB-D does not support MS Windows directly. You must use docker or a virtual machine running linux.

Normally on Linux and Mac OS X developers you should use the install.sh script to setup the system, perform the initial build, and install GridLAB-D for all users on the system.

host% git clone https://github.com/slacgismo/gridlabd gridlabd
host% gridlabd/install.sh

The gridlabd command is added to the /usr/local/bin folder, so this folder must be included in the path for all users, e.g., as specified in /etc/profile or /etc/profile.d.

You may work with a user installation instead of a system installation. Assuming your development system is ready (see https://github.com/slacgismo/gridlabd/wiki/Install#mac-osx-and-linux for details), you can "quickly" download and build a host-based installation from a branch using the following commands:

  host% git clone https://github.com/slacgismo/gridlabd -b _branch-name_ _work-folder_
  host% cd _work-folder_
  host% autoreconf -isf
  host% ./configure --enable-silent-rules --prefix=$PWD/install [_options_]
  host% make -j install
  host% export PATH=$PWD/install/bin:$PATH
  host% gridlabd --version
  host% gridlabd --validate

Useful configure options

• --with-mysql=/usr/local to enable support for mysql (assuming you install mysql-dev on your system)
• CXXFLAGS='-w -O0 -g' to enable debugging of C++ source code (e.g., module code)
• CFLAGS='-w -O0 -g' to enable debugging of C source code (e.g., core code)

Notes

• The version number should contain the branch-name. If not, use the which gridlabd command to check that the path is correct.
• You can control whether your local version run the docker image instead of the local install using the --docker command-line option.
• In theory all validate tests of the master should pass. However, sometimes issues arise that aren't caught until after a merge into master. If you encounter a validation error, please check the issues to see if it has not already been reported. When reporting such a problem, please include the --origin command line option output, the validate.txt output, and the output from uname -a to assist in reproducing and diagnosing the problem.

Citation

If you use this fork of GridLAB-D for a publication you are required to cite it, e.g.,

Chassin, D.P., et al., "GridLAB-D Version major.minor.patch-build (branch) platform", (year) [online]. Available at url, Accessed on: month day, year.

You may use the --cite command option to obtain the correct citation for your version:

host% gridlabd --cite
Chassin, D.P., et al. "GridLAB-D 4.2.0-191008 (fix_python_validate) DARWIN", (2019) [online]. Available at https://github.com/slacgismo/gridlabd/commit/dfc392dc0208419ce9be0706f699fdd9a11e3f5b, Accessed on: Oct. 8, 2019.

This will allow anyone to identify the exact version you are using to obtain it from GitHub.

Contributions

Please see https://github.com/slacgismo/gridlabd/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md for information on making contributions to this repository.