Project 1: Dashboard for tracking MD simulation progress with the new streaming interface

[PeterWayne12]

Hello everyone,

My name is Pranoy, and I have been exploring the MDAnalysis ecosystem and learning more about the IMDv3 streaming interface and its potential for real-time simulation monitoring.

I’ve been trying to understand how the data would flow from a running simulation to the dashboard.

Would the typical pipeline look something like this?

simulation → IMDv3 stream → imdclient → backend processing → browser dashboard

I’m curious whether the backend is mainly responsible for forwarding frames to the frontend, or if it would also perform most of the analysis using MDAnalysis before sending results.

I’d appreciate any clarification on how this pipeline is expected to work.