Pipeline system for Octave and Matlab

The pipeline system for Octave and Matlab (PSOM) is a lightweight library to manage complex multi-stage data processing. A pipeline is a collection of jobs, i.e. Matlab or Octave codes with a well identified set of options that are using files for inputs and outputs. To use PSOM, the only requirement is to generate a description of a pipeline in the form of a simple Matlab/Octave structure. PSOM then automatically offers the following services:

* Run jobs in parallel using multiple CPUs or within a distributed computing environment.
* Generate log files and keep track of the pipeline execution. These logs are detailed enough to fully reproduce the analysis.
* Handle job failures : successful completion of jobs is checked and failed jobs can be restarted.
* Handle updates of the pipeline : change options or add jobs and let PSOM figure out what to reprocess !