Title
xSDK Foundations: Toward an Extreme-scale Scientific Software Development Kit
Abstract
AbstractExtreme-scale computational science increasingly demands multiscale and multiphysics formulations. Combining software developed by independent groups is imperative: no single team has resources for all predictive science and decision support capabilities. Scientific libraries provide high-quality, reusable software components for constructing applications with improved robustness and portability. However, without coordination, many libraries cannot be easily composed. Namespace collisions, inconsistent arguments, lack of third-party software versioning, and additional difficulties make composition costly. The Extreme-scale Scientific Software Development Kit xSDK defines community policies to improve code quality and compatibility across independently developed packages hypre, PETSc, SuperLU, Trilinos, and Alquimia and provides a foundation for addressing broader issues in software interoperability, performance portability, and sustainability. The xSDK provides turnkey installation of member software and seamless combination of aggregate capabilities, and it marks first steps toward extreme-scale scientific software ecosystems from which future applications can be composed rapidly with assured quality and scalability.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.14529/jsfi170104
Periodicals
Field
DocType
Volume
Personal software process,Software engineering,Software peer review,Package development process,Computer science,Software construction,Software quality,Software development,Database,Software framework,Social software engineering
Journal
4
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
2409-6008
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
15