Speeding up script with huge dataset from solar simulations

Grasshopper
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As suggested by @TomTom I’m posing my need in a separate thread in the hope that there are some neat trick to my script and a kind person who can point me towards it.

I’m running high resolutions HB simulations to evaluate potentials for facade integrated solar and to get sufficient resolutions on large building I often end up with huge dataset, so I’m hoping someone here knows how I might optimize it to run faster.

It is not so much the raytracing with Radiance that is taking time. Mostly it is the data handling/processing when it returns to Grasshopper that takes forever…sometimes hours!

Here you have a screenshot of the script as well as the script with a dataset internalized

thanks
anders

screenshot of simulation
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HB sim example.gh (655.0 KB)

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Hi Anders,

I had a similar problem. There is a major design flow in Honeybee as it really does not compute the huge sets of data using multithreading.

You can either rewrite the code yourself or use Climate Studio nodes. They offer a trial period for their product.

https://www.solemma.com/climatestudio

Cheers,

G

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