How to start an experiment === ## 1.Introduce There are few steps to start an new experiment of nni, here are the process. ## 2.Details ### 2.1 Check environment The first step to start an experiment is to check whether the environment is ready, nnictl will check if there is an old experiment running or the port of restfurl server is occupied. NNICTL will also validate the content of config yaml file, to ensure the experiment config is in correct format. ### 2.2 Start restful server After check environment, nnictl will start an restful server process to manage nni experiment, the devault port is 51188. ### 2.3 Check restful server Before next steps, nnictl will check whether restful server is successfully started, or the starting process will stop and show error message. ### 2.4 Set experiment config NNICTL need to set experiment config before start an experiment, experiment config includes the config values in config yaml file. ### 2.5 Check experiment cofig NNICTL will ensure the request to set config is successfully executed. ### 2.6 Start WebUI NNICTL will start a WebUI to show information,the default port of WebUI is 51188. ### 2.7 Check WebUI If WebUI is not successfully started, nnictl will give a warning information, and will continue to start experiment. ### 2.8 Start Experiment This is the most import step of starting an nni experiment, nnictl will call restful server process to setup an experiment. ### 2.9 Check experiment After start experiment, nnictl will check whether the experiment is correctly created, and show more information of this experiment to users.