Set up your own models repository

Set up your own models repository#

To work with your own models, it often makes sense to have dedicated project repositories. This page gives instructions on how to set up such a project.

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The Demo project and models is one example of how such a project may look like.

What is a project?#

With utopya, it is possible to run and evaluate many different models on your machine. To make this process a bit smoother, utopya allows to group certain models into so-called projects. Typically, these projects reflect individual version-controlled repositories.

In the end, a utopya project is simply a directory with a .utopya-project.yml file, which denotes it as being a utopya project (and which contains a bunch of metadata to describe the project). Inside the project directory, a models directory holds the model implementations.

The Models Template#

To quickly set up a utopya-based simulation environment, we provide the Models Template for Python models. It provides an easy way to create your own utopya project and kick-start your model development.

In broad strokes, the process is as follows:

  1. Install cookiecutter, which will take care of downloading and adjusting the template.

  2. Create your own project from the template by customizing the template’s parameters.

  3. Make adjustments to the newly-created repository.

  4. Start implementing your models.

The most up-to-date instructions will always be in the template project’s README itself. See there for more detailed instructions.