TY - GEN
T1 - Explaining StGermain
T2 - 21st International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2007
AU - Quenette, Steve
AU - Moresi, Louis
AU - Sunter, P. D.
AU - Appelbe, Bill F.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - HPC scientific computational models are notoriously difficult to develop, debug, and maintain. The reasons for this are multifaceted - including difficulty of parallel programming, the lack of standard frameworks, and the lack of software engineering skills in scientific software developers. In this paper we discuss the drivers, design and deployment of StGermain, a software framework that significantly simplifies the development of a spectrum of HPC computational mechanics models. The key distinction between StGermain and conventional approaches to developing computational models is that StGermain decomposes parallel scientific applications into a hierarchical architecture, supporting applications collectively built by a diverse community of scientists, modelers, computational scientists, and software engineers.
AB - HPC scientific computational models are notoriously difficult to develop, debug, and maintain. The reasons for this are multifaceted - including difficulty of parallel programming, the lack of standard frameworks, and the lack of software engineering skills in scientific software developers. In this paper we discuss the drivers, design and deployment of StGermain, a software framework that significantly simplifies the development of a spectrum of HPC computational mechanics models. The key distinction between StGermain and conventional approaches to developing computational models is that StGermain decomposes parallel scientific applications into a hierarchical architecture, supporting applications collectively built by a diverse community of scientists, modelers, computational scientists, and software engineers.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34548796511&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IPDPS.2007.370400
DO - 10.1109/IPDPS.2007.370400
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:34548796511
SN - 1424409101
SN - 9781424409105
T3 - Proceedings - 21st International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2007; Abstracts and CD-ROM
BT - Proceedings - 21st International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2007; Abstracts and CD-ROM
Y2 - 26 March 2007 through 30 March 2007
ER -