Stdout is empty

[tobsecret]

Hi,

I am working off a SGE cluster and am trying to use SCITE but my stdout and stderr files are empty even though when I use scite from the command line rather than submitting a compute job, I get messages like the following printed to the screen:

At mcmc repetition 1/1, step 0: best tree score -1.79769e+308 and best beta 0.21545 and best overall score -1.79769e+308

I would like this to be captured in the stdout or stderr, so I can estimate how far the program has progressed and whether or not I should adjust the parameters for it to finish within my life time (I have no estimation skills for this type of algorithm yet, am new to all these tree constructors).

[jahnka]

This is not a SCITE specific problem. Depending on the cluster configuration, there may be some delay in the file printing. One thing you could try is to redirect the output to another file. If that does not help, and as you seem to be mainly interested in the expected runtime, you could try to restart SCITE with a smaller number of iterations/repetitions and see how long that takes and then scale that up to the actual number. Roughly speaking when doubling the number of MCMC moves, SCITE should take twice as long - minus some offset (which is negligible for larger runs).

[tobsecret]

Thanks for your quick answer! What about the other parameters? -fd and -ad should not have any effect on the run time, correct?

[jahnka]

I don't think so. These are just the error rates.