2_RunningREMIND.md

Start running REMIND with default settings

Felix Schreyer (felix.schreyeru@pik-potsdam.de), Lavinia Baumstark (baumstark@pik-potsdam.de), David Klein (dklein@pik-potsdam.de) 30 April, 2019

• 1. Your first run
  • Default configurations
  • Configuration with scenario configuration tables
  • Accessing the cluster
  • Adjust the Rprofile
  • Starting the run
  • Restarting runs
• 2. What happens during a REMIND run?
• 3. What happens once you start REMIND on the cluster?
  • a) Input data preparation
  • b) Optimization
  • c) Output processing

1. Your first run

This section will explain how you start your first run in REMIND.

Default Configurations

The config/default.cfg file contains the default configuration for REMIND. It is divided into four parts: MODULES, SWITCHES, FLAGS, and Explanations of switches and flags.

a. The first part, MODULES, contains settings for the various modules and their realizations. The realisations within the particular module differ from each other in their features, for e.g., bounds, parametric values, different policy cases etc. For each module you choose which realization of the module will be activated for your current run

cfg$gms$module_name

b. The SWITCHES and FLAGS section contain settings to control, for e.g., how many iterations to run, which technologies to include, which SSP to use, start and end year of model run etc. See the fourth section, explanations of switches and flags, to learn more.