Understanding the high-performance-computing community: A software engineer's perspective

IEEE Software

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 29-36

  Basili, Victor R ^a   Carver, Jeffrey C ^b   Cruzes, Daniela ^a   Hochstein, Lorin M ^c,d   Hollingsworth, Jeffrey K ^a   Shull, Forrest ^e   Zelkowitz, Marvin V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^e Fraunhofer USA Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational science; Empirical software engineering; High performance computing; Productivity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

COMPUTATIONAL SCIENTISTS; COMPUTING COMMUNITY; DEVELOPING SOFTWARE; DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORKS; EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HPC) SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY;

EID: 47149096899     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2008.103     Document Type: Article

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