Project Meeting 2019.05.31 - ActivitySim/activitysim GitHub Wiki

Verification

See the verification table for the current summaries
Updates summaries for shadow pricing since we also ran a 100% multiprocessing example
Issues we fixed since our last call, which are in pull request PR#261
- Updates to non man tour freq expressions
- Updates to atwork tour freq expressions
- Updates to tour stop freq expressions
- Updates to tour and trip mode expressions
The verification results of these submodels are better as a result
Added 100% sample multiprocessing example run setup to the user documentation
Published (released) an updated version - https://pypi.org/project/activitysim

Planning Applications preparation

Parallelization presentation
- Refreshed the full scale multiprocessing runs for our presentation
  - 28 core Windows server 165 minutes
  - 64 core Windows cloud server 105 minutes, $12
  - 128 core Windows cloud server 84 minutes, $27
  - 64 core Linux cloud server 71 minutes, $8
  - 128 core Linux cloud server 51 minutes, $16
- OSX and Linux running faster than Windows
- Python 2 running faster than Python 3 due to multiprocessing shared data issue that we're investigating
- Need to experiment more with Intel MKL library settings on Windows
- Updated the Azure cloud run setup scripts
Workshop
- @Joe working on beginning and end of workshop slides
- @Ben on platform and runtimes
- @Bhargava on setup, running the model, sensitivity tests
- @Brice on outputs, including Tableau dashboards
- @Joe/Brice add some verification slides
- @Bill to close session and welcome follow-up