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Simplifying complex software assembly: the component retrieval language and implementation

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Erik SchnetterAuthors Info & Claims

TG '10: Proceedings of the 2010 TeraGrid Conference

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1838574.1838592

Published: 02 August 2010 Publication History

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Assembling simulation software along with the associated tools and utilities is a challenging endeavor, particularly when the components are distributed across multiple source code versioning systems. It is problematic for researchers compiling and running the software across many different supercomputers, as well as for novices in a field who are often presented with a bewildering list of software to collect and install.

In this paper, we describe a language (CRL) for specifying software components with the details needed to obtain them from source code repositories. The language supports public and private access. We describe a tool called Get Components which implements CRL and can be used to assemble software.

We demonstrate the tool for application scenarios with the Cactus Framework on the NSF TeraGrid resources. The tool itself is distributed with an open source license and freely available from our web page.

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Simplifying complex software assembly: the component retrieval language and implementation
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software post-development issues
      1. Software version control
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Context specific languages
      1. Specialized application languages
    2. Software configuration management and version control systems

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TG '10: Proceedings of the 2010 TeraGrid Conference

August 2010

177 pages

ISBN:9781605588186

DOI:10.1145/1838574

Co-chairs:
Richard Moore
SDSC
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Daniel S. Katz
UC/ANL
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Shawn Brown
PSC

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Dubey AAlmgren ABell JBerzins MBrandt SBryan GColella PGraves DLijewski MLöffler FO’Shea BSchnetter EVan Straalen BWeide K(2014)A survey of high level frameworks in block-structured adaptive mesh refinement packagesJournal of Parallel and Distributed Computing10.1016/j.jpdc.2014.07.00174:12(3217-3227)Online publication date: Dec-2014
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpdc.2014.07.001
Mösta PMundim BFaber JHaas RNoble SBode TLöffler FOtt CReisswig CSchnetter E(2013)GRHydro: a new open-source general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics code for the Einstein toolkitClassical and Quantum Gravity10.1088/0264-9381/31/1/01500531:1(015005)Online publication date: 15-Nov-2013
https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/31/1/015005
Meng QBerzins M(2013)Scalable large-scale fluid-structure interaction solvers in the Uintah framework via hybrid task-based parallelism algorithmsConcurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience10.1002/cpe.309926:7(1388-1407)Online publication date: 30-Jul-2013
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Allen GGoodale TLoffler FRideout DSchnetter ESeidel E(2010)Component specification in the Cactus Framework: The Cactus Configuration Language2010 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing10.1109/GRID.2010.5698008(359-368)Online publication date: Oct-2010
https://doi.org/10.1109/GRID.2010.5698008

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