CliMA’s software team, led by Simon Byrne, added a software interface to ClimaCore.jl for saving and loading data from distributed simulations. We caught up with Dr. Byrne near the Gong inside the CliMA conference room; an edited version of our interview is reproduced below.
Leilani Rivera-Dotson: Why did your team implement this interface?
Dr. Byrne: There are two main reasons we need to be able to save and load data: saving the quantities of interest, such as temperature and precipitation, for analysis and other post-processing tasks; capturing the state of the model so that we can reproduce or resume the simulation from a particular point in time. This is important if there is a hardware fault, or some other anomaly that we need to investigate. The saved files are commonly called restart files.