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SciExp²
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SciExp² (aka *SciExp square* or simply *SciExp2*) stands for *Scientific
Experiment Exploration*, which provides a framework for easing the workflow of
creating, executing and evaluating experiments.

The driving idea of SciExp² is that of quick and effortless *design-space
exploration*. It is divided into the following main pieces:

* Launchgen: Aids in defining experiments as a permutation of different
  parameters in the design space. It creates the necessary files to run these
  experiments (configuration files, scripts, etc.), which you define as
  templates that get substituted with the specific parameter values of each
  experiment.

* Launcher: Takes the files of launchgen and runs these experiments on different
  execution platforms like regular local scripts or cluster jobs. It takes care
  of tracking their correct execution, and allows selecting which experiments to
  run (e.g., those with specific parameter values, or those that were not
  successfully run yet).

* Data: Aids in the process of collecting and analyzing the results of the
  experiments. Results are automatically collected into a data structure that
  maintains the relationship between each result and the parameters of the
  experiment that produced it. With this you can effortlessly perform complex
  tasks such as inspecting the results or calculating statistics of experiment
  sub-sets, based on their parameter values.

You can find links to the documentation and all other relevant information in:

  https://projects.gso.ac.upc.edu/projects/sciexp2


Copyright
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Copyright 2008-2016 Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>

Sciexp² is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.

SciExp² is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

