Map v3: Glue code for SimDB collector

.gitmodules

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[submodule "sparta/simdb"]
+	path = sparta/simdb
+	url = git@github.com:colby-nyce/simdb.git

README.md

@@ -21,12 +21,19 @@ MAP is broken into two parts:
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-## Building MAP
+## Cloning MAP
+
+MAP uses git submodules, so you should either check out MAP with the --recursive option:
+
+- `git clone git@github.com:sparcians/map.git --recursive`
+
+Or you can get the submodules manually:
 
-Building MAP is done in two parts
+- `git clone git@github.com:sparcians/map.git`
+- `cd map`
+- `git submodule update --init --recursive`
 
-1. Sparta, the modeling framework: build sparta only in the sparta folder
-2. Argos, the transaction viewer in Helios in the helios folder. Note that to build and use helios, you will need sparta built and installed somwehere on your system.
+## Building MAP
 
 The MAP repository has numerous dependencies, which are listed in a
 [conda recipe](https://github.com/sparcians/map/blob/master/conda.recipe/meta.yaml),
@@ -80,11 +87,6 @@ installed and would like to build everything (not just sparta).
    * `cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..`
    * `make`
    * `cmake --install . --prefix $CONDA_PREFIX`
-1. To build Helios/Argos transaction viewer:
-   * `cd helios && mkdir release && cd release`
-   * `cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..`
-   * `make`
-   * `cmake --install . --prefix $CONDA_PREFIX`
 
 A few interesting cmake options to help resolve dependencies are:
 

helios/README.md

@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 # Helios Visulation Tools
 
-This part of the MAP repo contains two tools that work with
+This part of the MAP repo contains tools that work with
 Sparta-developed models to visualize the data generated.
 
 1. Plato -- (WIP) A web-based visualization tool that will consume
    database files generated by Sparta-based models and allow the user
    to "drag-n-drop" plots onto a main canvas
-1. pipeViewer (a.k.a Argos) -- A pipeline crawler, consistent with the
-   concept of a waveform viewer, but with more information viewable.
-   It's sometimes been called a rainbox chart or waterfall diagram.
+
+//2. Note that prior Sparta releases had the Argos tool here
+//   in Helios (pipeline visualization). That has been moved
+//   to an external git repo which Sparta uses as a submodule.
+//   See the README file here: map/sparta/simdb/README.md