1. MEGN 537 – Probabilistic Biomechanics Running NESSUS with “Big Models”… that have many support files
Anthony J Petrella, PhD

2. Big Models
OpenSim, AnyBody, other models that require many support files to run are Big Models
Issue: don’t want to copy all of the support files to the trial folder for each solution
There is a better way…

3. Alternative Method
Recall NESSUS batch commands are issued from within each trial folder; “input” file(s) that contain perturbed parameters will be placed in trial folder automatically by NESSUS
Copy “input” files from trial folder out to folder location where they are needed by the Big Model
Issue command to execute Big Model wherever it resides (probably not in the trial folder) – so it can find all of its support files w/o trouble
Copy relevant output files (from the folder structure where they are created by the Big Model) into the trial folder – OR – issue command to process output files wherever they reside in the folder structure
If you copied output files in step 4, process them now in the trial folder… this is probably the better approach since you will be able to keep original versions of the input files and output files for each trial