WMT 1.0 release

WMT 1.0

The CSDMS Integration Facility is happy to announce the release of version 1.0 of the CSDMS Web Modeling Tool, WMT.

WMT is a web application that provides an Ajax client-side graphical interface and a RESTful server-side database and API that allows users, from a web browser on a desktop, laptop or tablet computer, to build and run coupled Earth system models on a supercomputer.

With WMT, users can:

• Design a model from a set of components
• Edit component parameters
• Save models to a web-accessible server
• Share saved models with the community
• Submit runs to an HPC system
• Download simulation results

WMT is a an open source application built entirely with open source software (Python, SQLite, Java, and Javascript). The WMT source is freely available on GitHub (see links below). We encourage CSDMS members to contribute to the continued development of WMT by forking and cloning the GitHub repositories, then sending pull requests with improvements back to the CSDMS IF.

New/improved features

Since the introduction of a pre-release version of WMT at the 2014 CSDMS Annual Meeting [link?], the CSDMS IF has added new features and tweaked some existing behaviors.

Links

• The primary instance of WMT resides at https://csdms.colorado.edu/wmt
• The CSDMS wiki hosts the WMT_Help page and a WMT_tutorial
• The source code for WMT can be found in three GitHub repositories:
  • wmt, the data/database server: https://github.com/csdms/wmt
  • wmt-exe, the execution server: https://github.com/csdms/wmt-exe
  • wmt-client, the web client: https://github.com/csdms/wmt-client