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 Typing `./run-tapir` on the commandline will build the tapir binding and
 execute the load, run experiments.
 
-The parameters for the experiment can be edited in `run-tapir.sh`
+Make sure the server replicas are running before you execute this script.
+
+The parameters for the experiment can be edited in `run-tapir.sh`.
+
+The output will be stored in load.log and run.log.