Added streamlit progress dashboard

[gperdrizet]

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Pull request overview

This PR adds a comprehensive real-time monitoring dashboard for the Hill Climber optimization package, enabling users to visualize optimization progress as it runs. The implementation introduces SQLite-based database logging with a Streamlit web dashboard, bumping the version from 1.0.2 to 1.1.0.

Key Changes:

• Added Streamlit dashboard (progress_dashboard.py) with live metrics visualization, replica status cards, and temperature exchange timeline
• Implemented SQLite database backend (hill_climber/database.py) with WAL mode for concurrent read/write access
• Extended optimizer to support optional database logging with configurable collection intervals and buffer sizes
• Introduced checkpoint_interval parameter to decouple checkpoint frequency from batch frequency

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File	Description
progress_dashboard.py	New 429-line Streamlit dashboard providing real-time visualization of optimization progress with auto-refresh, metric selection, and interactive Plotly charts
hill_climber/database.py	New database module with thread-safe SQLite writer supporting schema initialization, metrics logging, and replica status tracking
hill_climber/optimizer.py	Added database initialization, new db_* parameters, batch counter for checkpoint intervals, and database buffer collection from workers
hill_climber/replica_worker.py	Extended to collect and buffer metrics for database logging, with conditional database writer instantiation per worker
pyproject.toml	Added optional 'dashboard' dependency group with streamlit>=1.28.0 and plotly>=5.14.0, version bump to 1.1.0
hill_climber/__init__.py	Version string updated to 1.1.0
docs/source/dashboard.rst	New comprehensive documentation (346 lines) covering dashboard installation, usage, configuration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting
docs/source/index.rst	Added dashboard feature and documentation link to main page
docs/source/conf.py	Version updated to 1.1.0
README.md	Added dashboard feature description, installation instructions, and usage example
docs/README.md	Reorganized documentation maintenance guide (content moved from deleted DOCUMENTATION_README.md)
CITATION.cff	Version updated to 1.1.0
.gitignore	Added SQLite database files (*.db, *.db-shm, *.db-wal) to ignore list
benchmark_parallel.py	Deleted development/testing script (no longer needed)
DOCUMENTATION_README.md	Deleted (content moved to docs/README.md for better organization)

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