Using payu more effectively programmatically.

[aidanheerdegen]

It would be useful to make payu more amenable to being driven programmatically, for testing but also for generating experiments programmatically, e.g. parameter sweeps.

This issue can be a place to put thoughts when they arise, or link to examples where this is a problem to help inform the solution.

[aidanheerdegen]

There is some interest in developing tools to enable automated generation and running of payu configurations for applications like parameter sweeps

https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/gh-repo-create-workflow-to-enable-a-repository-with-many-experiments-rather-than-just-one/3493/4

See also

COSIMA/om3-scripts#34

In addition @SeanBryan51 has done some automated config generation and running for benchcab, and may also be interested in utilising this sort of capability.