Software WG taskforce: simulator selection resource

Meeting 6: Wed 8 Feb, 1400 UTC

Next meeting: Wed 22 Feb, 1400 UTC

Consolidated notes are now here: https://hackmd.io/@mstimberg/HJXqYPMPo

Agenda

• Discuss UI prototypes/sketches
• What technology/framework to use?
• next steps

Attendees

• Ankur Sinha
• Marcel Stimberg (@mstimberg)
• Reema Gupta (ree-gupta)
• Dinara Issagaliyeva - dissagaliyeva (github)
• Eliane Rodrigues (elianecr)

Actions

• Everyone: please add your GitHub handles here
• Everyone: play with panel-holoviz to check for any limitations that may hinder our work
• Ankur: create new team under OCNS org and add everyone: DONE
• Ankur: create new repo: DONE
• Ankur: take a few tools from annotations and yamelize, add to repo - (ONGOING - Reema - I hope that is okay @Ankur?)
• Everyone, please add/upload your sketches to the repo

Technology/Frameworks/Deployment

• Python dashboarding with panel

  • https://panel.holoviz.org/
  • https://awesome-panel.org/home

• Examples of HoloViz

  • Example of panel served as a website: https://awesome-panel.org/
  • Example of code & dynamic changes https://discourse.holoviz.org/uploads/default/original/1X/83e6cb6981b0296ebd16a442916a6e9d7a2f843f.gif
  • List of examples (Also a good way to store "cards" for showing simulators): https://awesome-panel.org/sharing_gallery

• "Database":

  • structured, text based: JSON/YAML/TOML
  • individual files for each tool
    • makes it easy to contribute new tools, and update existing ones (without merge conflicts!)

Relationships between tools

• Strong and weak links:
  • Strong links: A requires B (Brian2Cuda requires Brian)
  • Weak links (optional): A enhances/extends/something B but does not necessarily require B
• Annotation/database entry for each link:
  • Target
  • Strong/Weak link
  • Free form relationship description