diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
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+name: Build for Development
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - '*'
+  release:
+    types: [released]
+
+
+env:
+  REGISTRY: ghcr.io
+
+jobs:
+  build-image:
+    name: Build image
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 20
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout Code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: Log into container registry
+        uses: docker/login-action@v2
+        with:
+          registry: ${{ env.REGISTRY }}
+          username: ${{ github.actor }}
+          password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+
+      - name: Docker meta
+        uses: docker/metadata-action@v4
+        id: meta
+        with:
+          images: |
+            ${{ env.REGISTRY }}/${{ github.repository }}
+          tags: |
+            type=ref,event=branch
+            type=sha
+            type=semver,pattern={{version}},enable=${{ github.event_name == 'release' }}
+            type=semver,pattern={{major}},enable=${{ github.event_name == 'release' }}
+
+      - name: Build and push
+        uses: docker/build-push-action@v4
+        with:
+          context: .
+          push: true
+          tags: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.tags }}
+          labels: ${{ steps.meta.output.labels }}
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diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
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+FROM ubuntu:20.04 AS base
+
+USER root
+
+ENV HOME /alfalfa
+
+# Need to set the lang to use Python 3.8 with Poetry
+ENV LANG C.UTF-8
+ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
+ENV ROOT_DIR /usr/local
+ENV BUILD_DIR $HOME/build
+
+
+RUN apt-get update \
+    && apt-get install -y \
+    ca-certificates \
+    curl \
+    gdebi-core \
+    vim \
+    wget \
+    git \
+    openjdk-8-jdk \
+    liblapack-dev \
+    gfortran \
+    libgfortran4 \
+    cmake \
+    python3-venv \
+    python3-pip \
+    libblas-dev \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+
+WORKDIR $HOME
+# Use set in update-alternatives instead of config to
+# provide non-interactive input.
+RUN update-alternatives --set java /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java \
+    && update-alternatives --set javac /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/bin/javac \
+    && curl -SLO http://openstudio-resources.s3.amazonaws.com/bcvtb-linux.tar.gz \
+    && tar -xzf bcvtb-linux.tar.gz \
+    && rm bcvtb-linux.tar.gz
+
+WORKDIR $BUILD_DIR
+
+ENV OPENSTUDIO_DOWNLOAD_FILENAME OpenStudio-3.3.0+ad235ff36e-Ubuntu-20.04.deb
+ENV OPENSTUDIO_DOWNLOAD_URL https://github.com/NREL/OpenStudio/releases/download/v3.3.0/OpenStudio-3.3.0+ad235ff36e-Ubuntu-20.04.deb
+
+ENV ENERGYPLUS_VERSION 9.6.0
+ENV ENERGYPLUS_TAG 9.6-3.8
+ENV ENERGYPLUS_SHA e78d88a246
+ENV ENERGYPLUS_DIR /usr/local/EnergyPlus-9-6-0
+
+# mlep / external interface needs parts of EnergyPlus that are not included with OpenStudio
+# expandobjects, runenergyplus might be two examples, but the need to install EnergyPlus separately from OpenStudio
+# might be revaluated
+ENV ENERGYPLUS_DOWNLOAD_BASE_URL https://github.com/TShapinsky/EnergyPlus/releases/download/$ENERGYPLUS_TAG
+ENV ENERGYPLUS_DOWNLOAD_FILENAME EnergyPlus-$ENERGYPLUS_VERSION-$ENERGYPLUS_SHA-Linux-Ubuntu20.04-x86_64.tar.gz
+ENV ENERGYPLUS_DOWNLOAD_URL $ENERGYPLUS_DOWNLOAD_BASE_URL/$ENERGYPLUS_DOWNLOAD_FILENAME
+
+# We would rather use the self extracting tarball distribution of EnergyPlus, but there appears to
+# be a bug in the installation script so using the tar.gz manually here and making our own links
+RUN curl -SLO $ENERGYPLUS_DOWNLOAD_URL \
+    && mkdir $ENERGYPLUS_DIR \
+    && tar -C $ENERGYPLUS_DIR/ --strip-components=1 -xzf $ENERGYPLUS_DOWNLOAD_FILENAME \
+    && ln -s $ENERGYPLUS_DIR/energyplus /usr/local/bin/ \
+    && ln -s $ENERGYPLUS_DIR/ExpandObjects /usr/local/bin/ \
+    && ln -s $ENERGYPLUS_DIR/runenergyplus /usr/local/bin/ \
+    && rm $ENERGYPLUS_DOWNLOAD_FILENAME
+
+RUN curl -SLO $OPENSTUDIO_DOWNLOAD_URL \
+    && gdebi -n $OPENSTUDIO_DOWNLOAD_FILENAME \
+    && rm -f $OPENSTUDIO_DOWNLOAD_FILENAME \
+    && cd /usr/local/openstudio* \
+    && rm -rf EnergyPlus \
+    && ln -s $ENERGYPLUS_DIR EnergyPlus
+
+# Install commands for Spawn
+ENV SPAWN_VERSION=0.3.0-69040695f9
+RUN wget https://spawn.s3.amazonaws.com/custom/Spawn-$SPAWN_VERSION-Linux.tar.gz \
+    && tar -C /usr/local/ -xzf Spawn-$SPAWN_VERSION-Linux.tar.gz \
+    && ln -s /usr/local/Spawn-$SPAWN_VERSION-Linux/bin/spawn-$SPAWN_VERSION /usr/local/bin/ \
+    && rm Spawn-$SPAWN_VERSION-Linux.tar.gz
+
+## MODELICA
+ENV FMIL_TAG 2.4
+ENV FMIL_HOME $ROOT_DIR/fmil
+
+ENV SUNDIALS_HOME $ROOT_DIR
+ENV SUNDIALS_TAG v4.1.0
+
+ENV ASSIMULO_TAG Assimulo-3.2.9
+
+ENV PYFMI_TAG PyFMI-2.9.5
+
+ENV SUPERLU_HOME $ROOT_DIR/SuperLU_MT_3.1
+
+# Modelica requires libgfortran3 which is not in apt for 20.04
+RUN wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/gcc-6/gcc-6-base_6.4.0-17ubuntu1_amd64.deb \
+    && wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/gcc-6/libgfortran3_6.4.0-17ubuntu1_amd64.deb \
+    && dpkg -i gcc-6-base_6.4.0-17ubuntu1_amd64.deb \
+    && dpkg -i libgfortran3_6.4.0-17ubuntu1_amd64.deb \
+    && ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.7 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6 \
+    && rm *.deb
+
+# Build FMI Library (for PyFMI)
+RUN git clone --branch $FMIL_TAG --depth 1 https://github.com/modelon-community/fmi-library.git \
+    && mkdir $FMIL_HOME \
+    && mkdir fmil_build \
+    && cd fmil_build \
+    && cmake -DFMILIB_INSTALL_PREFIX=$FMIL_HOME ../fmi-library \
+    && make install \
+    && cd .. && rm -rf fmi-library fmil_build
+
+# Build SuperLU (groan)
+COPY build/make.inc $BUILD_DIR
+
+RUN cd $ROOT_DIR \
+    && curl -SLO http://crd-legacy.lbl.gov/~xiaoye/SuperLU/superlu_mt_3.1.tar.gz \
+    && tar -xzf superlu_mt_3.1.tar.gz \
+    && cd SuperLU_MT_3.1 \
+    && rm make.inc \
+    && cp $BUILD_DIR/make.inc make.inc \
+    && make lib
+
+ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH $ROOT_DIR/lib:$SUPERLU_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+
+# Build Sundials with SuperLU(for Assimulo)
+RUN git clone --branch $SUNDIALS_TAG --depth 1 https://github.com/LLNL/sundials.git \
+    && mkdir sundials_build \
+    && cd sundials_build \
+    && cmake ../sundials \
+    -DPTHREAD_ENABLE=1 \
+    -DBLAS_ENABLE=1 \
+    -DLAPACK_LIBRARIES='-llapack -lblas' \
+    -DLAPACK_ENABLE=1 \
+    -DSUPERLUMT_ENABLE=1 \
+    -DSUNDIALS_INDEX_SIZE=32 \
+    -DSUPERLUMT_INCLUDE_DIR=$SUPERLU_HOME/SRC \
+    -DSUPERLUMT_LIBRARY_DIR=$SUPERLU_HOME/lib \
+    -DSUPERLUMT_LIBRARIES='-lblas' \
+    && make \
+    && make install \
+    && cd .. && rm -rf sundials sundials_build
+
+# This is required for Assimulo to build correctly with setuptools 60+
+ENV SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS stdlib
+
+COPY requirements.txt $BUILD_DIR
+RUN pip install -r requirements.txt && \
+    rm requirements.txt
+
+# Install Assimulo for PyFMI
+RUN git clone --branch $ASSIMULO_TAG --depth 1 https://github.com/modelon-community/Assimulo.git \
+     && cd Assimulo \
+     && python3 setup.py install \
+     --sundials-home=$SUNDIALS_HOME \
+     --blas-home=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu \
+     --lapack-home=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lapack/ \
+     --superlu-home=$SUPERLU_HOME \
+     && cd .. && rm -rf Assimulo
+
+# Install PyFMI
+RUN git clone --branch $PYFMI_TAG --depth 1 https://github.com/modelon-community/PyFMI.git \
+    && cd PyFMI \
+    && python3 setup.py install \
+    && cd .. && rm -rf PyFMI
+
+ENV PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/Assimulo-3.2.9-py3.8-linux-x86_64.egg:/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/PyFMI-2.9.5-py3.8-linux-x86_64.egg
+
+ENV SEPARATE_PROCESS_JVM /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/
+ENV JAVA_HOME /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+# alfalfa-worker-dependencies
diff --git a/build/make.inc b/build/make.inc
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+############################################################################
+#
+#  Program:         SuperLU_MT
+#
+#  Module:          make.inc
+#
+#  Purpose:         Top-level Definitions
+#
+#  Creation date:   May 26, 2021
+#
+#  Modified:
+#
+#
+############################################################################
+#
+#  The machine (platform) identifier to append to the library names
+#
+PLAT = _PTHREAD
+
+#  The name of the libraries to be created/linked to
+#
+TMGLIB       	= libtmglib$(PLAT).a
+SUPERLULIB   	= libsuperlu_mt$(PLAT).a
+#BLASLIB = ../lib/libblas$(PLAT).a
+MATHLIB		= -lm
+MPLIB		= -lpthread
+
+# BLASDEF 	= -DUSE_VENDOR_BLAS
+# BLASLIB		= /Users/xsli/Dropbox/Codes/SuperLU/superlu_mt.git/CBLAS/libblas.a
+BLASLIB		= ../lib/libblas$(PLAT).a
+LIBS		= $(SUPERLULIB) ${BLASLIB}
+
+#
+#  The archiver and the flag(s) to use when building archive (library)
+#  If your system has no ranlib, set RANLIB = echo.
+#
+ARCH         = /usr/bin/ar
+ARCHFLAGS    = cr
+RANLIB       = /usr/bin/ranlib
+
+############################################################################
+#
+# Definitions used by CPP:
+PREDEFS      	= -D__PTHREAD  ## -DDEBUGlevel=0 -DPRNTlevel=0
+#
+CC           	= gcc -fPIC
+CFLAGS       	= $(PREDEFS) -g #-O3
+# Uncomment the following to use 64-bit integer
+# CFLAGS          += -D_LONGINT
+
+#
+# There are a few files that should NOT be optimized, which appear in the
+# end of SRC/Makefile, taking the flag $(NOOPTS)
+# NOOPTS should be defined to explicitly turn off any optimization.
+NOOPTS	     	= -O0
+
+BLASOPTS	=
+
+############################################################################
+
+FORTRAN		= gfortran
+FFLAGS		= -O
+# Uncomment the following to use 64-bit integer
+# FFLAGS         += -fdefault-integer-8
+
+############################################################################
+
+LOADER       	= $(CC)
+LOADOPTS     	= -O #-pthread
+
+############################################################################
+#
+#  C preprocessor defs for compilation (-DNoChange, -DAdd_, or -DUpCase)
+#
+CDEFS        	= -DAdd_
+
+#
+# The directory in which Matlab is installed
+#
+MATLAB	     = /Applications/MATLAB_R2017a.app
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
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+numpy
+Cython
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