[SciPy-User] tool for running simulations

[Rob Clewley]

Hi,

>> * Run a server process on each of several computers, that controls file
>> access (this avoids any issues with contention). One computer is the
>> master and if the other ones want to read or write a file then it is
>> transferred to the master. Some files might want to be cached/mirrored
>> on each computer for faster access (typically for read only files in my
>> case).

The closest thing I know of is Andrew Davison's Sumatra:

http://software.incf.org/software/sumatra

Not sure it has all the other features (HDF5) you're interested in,
but it should help people manage batch simulation runs and make them
more reproducible, at least.

-Rob