Title
A New Approach to Software Integration Frameworks for Multi-physics Simulation Codes
Abstract
Existing software integration frameworks typically require large manual rewrites of existing codes, or specific tailoring of codes written to be used in the frame- work. The result is usually a special-purpose code which is not usable outside of the framework. In this paper, we propose an alternative to that model - a framework that requires little hand-modification of the programs which use it. Our proposed framework is compiler-based, mesh-aware, numerics-aware, and physics-aware. Descriptions of the codes and the system make it possible to semi-automatically generate interfacing code, while the internal parallelization, communication and numerical solution methods are left intact. We report on some preliminary experiments with an automatic load balancing framework that demonstrate the feasibility of this approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1007/978-0-387-35407-1_6
The Architecture of Scientific Software
Keywords
Field
DocType
automatic load balancing,software integration,software integration frameworks,multi-physics simulation codes,new approach,component architectures,load balance
USable,Computer architecture,Dynamical simulation,Software engineering,Load balancing (computing),Computer science,Interfacing,System integration
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
60
1571-5736
0-7923-7339-1
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.44
7
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eric de Sturler139827.32
Jay Hoeflinger289278.71
Laxmikant V. Kalé31903168.50
Milind Bhandarkar4775.23