The eXperiment Shaperate (xshaper) is a tool and library for monitoring and
recording experimental runs. It provides a few key capabilities:
- Measure time, resource consumption, power usage (when possible), and other statistics a computational job.
- Maintain a record of the history of computational jobs, even those used to generate past versions of a project or that failed outright, to maintain a record of resource usage over the course of a project.
This is partly inspired by emers, and our needs trying to record the computational resources needed for experiments using the LensKit, particularly the LensKit Codex.
Note
The name comes from Dragon Age; like the Dwarven Shaperate keeps a record of dwarven families and activities, the eXperiment Shaperate records your experimental runs.