Simulation Metrics

Overview

As simulations run within HPC environments there is the need to gather metrics in the form of 2D matrices synthesizing relevant climate information. Each type of metrics contains standard information such as institute, model ...etc, and custom information specific to the type of metric being collected. Such information can be used by reporting and visualization applications.

The IPSL simulation runtime environment (libIGCM) has been extended to support the publishing of simulation metrics. At runtime simulation metrics are published to the Prodiguer messaging platform. The published metrics are processed at IPSL servers in Paris and persisted within a NOSql (MongoDB) database. They then become available to downstream applications such as the 'metrics garden'.

Messaging Application ID

sim-metrics

Message Dictionary

The dictionary of supported message types is defined here.

Command Line Interface

The Prodiguer client python library supports a command line interface (CLI) that can be used to fetch, upload, & search simulation metrics. Please refer to the Prodiguer client installation and usage notes for further information.