Cylc for operational systems

[m.hadfield]

This is not specific to ROMS, but please bear with me.

There are quite a few groups running ROMS routinely, in configurations that might variously be called operational, quasi-operational and not-really-operational. At the ROMS Asia-Pacific Workshop in Hobart I talked to a few people about a tool that might be useful in these situations. I am now posting that information here.

The tool is Cylc, a workflow engine to orchestrate complex (or not-so-complex) distributed suites of interdependent tasks.

https://cylc.github.io/cylc/

It was originally developed by my colleague Hilary Oliver at NIWA and is now an Open Source collaboration involving NIWA, the UK Met Office and others.

That's all I know about it, but Hilary makes it sound pretty cool, so I think it's worth a look by anyone running models and data processing on a routine basis.