Insight Replicate Runner

Overview

The Insight Replicate Runner is a combination of the Insight Runner and the Replicate Runner. It performs an Insight run where each population individual is run multiple times using different time-series inputs. The runner can be used, for example, to optimise an eWater Source model with a range of alternative climate data inputs and decision variables. The Insight Replicate Runner generates variants of an existing time series using the Time Series Cycle Creator (TSCC). Note that, it is possible to achieve similar behaviour using the Insight Runner and the Load Time Series option of Insight to load a set of pre-generated time-series.

eWater Source Project Setup

To run a Insight Replicate job, the eWater Source project must already be created with the time-series to be cycled loaded in Data Sources (see Replicate Runner for details). An Insight configuration file called config.txt must also be included (see Configuring an Insight Optimisation Run).

The Load Time Series option of Insight is not supported by the Insight Replicate Runner as the setting will be overwritten by the generated, cycled time-series data.

Once configured, the eWater Source project, CSV files (containing the time series to be replicated), and Insight config.txt file must be placed in a ZIP file.