Twinkles simulations must be reproducible - which means laying out a transparent, openly-accessible software pipeline which can be run by anyone. We can achieve this by developing several installations in parallel, for example at SLAC, NERSC and Fermilab, and maintaining various test examples that must always just run.
The flow chart below shows the initial pipeline design, color coded to show what remains to be built in red.
This confluence-hosted pipeline design chart is evolving with time here. We'll update this page periodically with newer versions.
Notes on the various pieces of this pipeline are below, in approximate order of their operation.
This machine generates the input that PhoSim needs, and can be based on the sims_catutils script, generatePhosimInput.py. At present we have a modified version of this in the twinkles module, here.
We have several general-purpose "Workflow Engines" at our disposal. We also need a very simple script that performs the same function, so that anyone can run the entire pipeline. See issue #25 for discussion of this.