CLIO Darshan
by iowarpcommunityv2.0.1
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CLIO Kit is a collection of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers designed to facilitate AI agents' interaction with scientific computing resources and data formats. It provides tools for tasks such as data analysis, job management, and research discovery.
From the registry: Darshan I/O profiler MCP server for analyzing I/O trace files
Install & configure
Prerequisites
- requiredInstall uvInstall the uv package manager which provides the uvx runner.
https://astral.sh/uv$ curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
Install in your client
Paste into the AI you're chatting with — it will figure out the rest
Please install the `darshan-mcp` MCP server into my current AI client (that's you).
Required prerequisites (do these first if not already done):
- **Install uv** — Install the uv package manager which provides the uvx runner. Run: `curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh` (https://astral.sh/uv)
Canonical MCP server config (stdio transport):
- command: `uvx`
- args: ["clio-kit","mcp-server","darshan"]
Note: darshan is one of 16 MCP servers shipped in the clio-kit package. Provides Darshan I/O performance trace analysis tools.
Add this MCP server to my current client's config in the correct format for you. If you need secrets or credentials I haven't provided, ASK me — do not invent values or leave raw placeholders. After adding it, tell me how to verify the server is connected.Note: darshan is one of 16 MCP servers shipped in the clio-kit package. Provides Darshan I/O performance trace analysis tools.
Tools (16)
adios
Read data using ADIOS2 engine
arxiv
Fetch research papers from ArXiv
chronolog
Log and retrieve data from ChronoLog
compression
File compression with gzip
darshan
I/O performance trace analysis
hdf5
HPC-optimized scientific data with 27 tools, AI insights, caching, streaming
jarvis
Data pipeline lifecycle management
lmod
Environment module management
ndp
Search and discover datasets across CKAN instances
node-hardware
System hardware information
pandas
CSV data loading and filtering
parallel-sort
Large file sorting
paraview
Scientific 3D visualization and analysis
parquet
Read Parquet file columns
plot
Generate plots from CSV data
Packages
clio-kit
pypiv2.0.1transport: stdio
Details
- Language
- Python
- License
- BSD-3-Clause
- Released
- Feb 23, 2026
- Last commit
- Feb 23, 2026
- Registry name
- io.github.iowarp/darshan-mcp