CLIPPy - Command Line Interface Plus Python

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Overview

Clippy (CLI + PYthon) is a Python language interface to HPC resources. Precompiled binaries that execute on HPC systems are exposed as methods to a dynamically-created Clippy Python object, where they present a familiar interface to researchers, data scientists, and others. Clippy allows these users to interact with HPC resources in an easy, straightforward environment – at the REPL, for example, or within a notebook – without the need to learn complex HPC behavior and arcane job submission commands.

Installation of Python Code

$ pip install .

Building C++ Examples on LC

$ . /usr/workspace/llamag/spack/share/spack/setup-env.sh
$ git clone https://github.com/LLNL/clippy-cpp.git
$ spack load gcc
$ spack load boost
$ cd clippy-cpp
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ../
$ make
$ cd ../.. #back to root project directory 

Running Current C++ Examples

$ CLIPPY_BACKEND_PATH=/path/to/binaries ipython3

In [1]: from clippy import *

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In [2]: c = ClippyBag()  # creates a bag datastructure.

In [3]: c.insert("foo").insert("bar")  # mutating methods can be chained
       
Out[3]: foo bar

In [4]: c.size()  # nonmutating methods return the appropriate output.
Out[4]: 2

Authors

• Seth Bromberger (seth at llnl dot gov)
• Roger Pearce (rpearce at llnl dot gov)

License

CLIPPy is distributed under the MIT license.

See LICENSE-MIT, NOTICE, and COPYRIGHT for details.

SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT

Release

LLNL-CODE-818157