Welcome to Decimate’s documentation!

User Documentation

• What is Decimate?
  • Features
  • Automated restart in case of failure
  • Fully user configurable environment
• Installation
  • Requirements
  • Distribution
  • Installing Decimate using PIP
    • Installing Decimate as root using PIP
    • Installing Decimate as user using PIP
  • Installing Decimate using Anaconda
  • Source
• Using Decimate
  • Submitting a Workflow
    • Submitting a job
    • options
    • single job
    • job depending on previous submitted jobs
    • submitting a job with a user-defined checking function
    • other kinds of workflows
  • Checking the current status
  • Displaying the log file
  • Cancelling the whole workflow
• Examples of Workflows
  • Test job
  • Nominal 2 job workflow
  • parametric job workflow
• Fault-tolerant Workflows
  • Adding a user-defined checking function
  • Succesful job submission
  • Failed job submission and automated restarting
  • Setting the number of restart
• Parameters combination
  • array of values
  • Combined parameter sweep
  • Parameters depending on simple formulas
  • More complex Python expressions
• Shell API
  • dbatch
  • dstat
  • dlog
  • dkill
  • environment variables
  • Job script directives