STOA stands for Script Tracking for Observational Astronomy and is a workflow management system primarily designed for large scale production of interferometry data.
This software is still in development; users are encouraged to contact prh44 (AT) cam.ac.uk for assistance, and to follow updates carefully.
STOA requires Python 3 and some Python libraries, all available through pip - we recommend that you use a virtual environment when trying this out. When you have one set up, install numpy, astropy,cwltool,grpcio-tools and tornado and you should be good to go
You may also need to run sudo pip install --upgrade protobuf
In order to prepare STOA to run, type
./ready.sh
this only need be done once per STOA install. Then type
./start.sh example 9000
to run the demo. Go to your browser and visit localhost:9000 to try it out
Log in as guest (no password is required) and try to create a worktable to implement the 'find' command. Use the find.cwl that is provided. Once this table is present, go into it and add a new row with 'product' as its input, and then run that row.
For more tutorial information, take a look at the user guide - manual.pdf