MELBA
Multi-messenger Event Workflow for Real-time Job Automation
Monitor FASTDB alerts and automate matching multi-messenger analysis jobs.
MELBA (Multi-messenger Event workfLow for real-time joB Automation) queries CanDIAPL FASTDB, selects alerts for named workflows, and submits matching Kubernetes analysis jobs with repeatable CronJob deployment and persisted progress.
Maturity
Alpha
Access
CADC / CANFAR
CADC sign-in is requested only for protected operations.
Maintainers
Jack Elvin-Poole
What it supports
Use cases
- FASTDB alert monitoring
- Named analysis workflows
- Kubernetes job submission
- CronJob automation
Where it runs
Runtime homes
GitHub / templateGitHub
Documentation hostReadTheDocs
KubernetesKubernetes
MELBA currently runs as a one-shot command or Kubernetes CronJob rather than as a hosted portal application.
Runtime, inputs & outputs
- Distributions
- Source repository
- Runtime
- not-applicable
- Access
- account-required
- Inputs
- Not specified
- Outputs
- Not specified
Names & abbreviations
- CADC
- Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
- CanDIAPL
- Canadian Data Intensive Astrophysics Platform