A component approach to collaborative scientific software development: Tools and techniques utilized by the Quantum Chemistry Science Application Partnership

Scientific Programming

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 287-296

  Kenny, Joseph P ^a   Janssen, Curtis L ^a   Gordon, Mark S ^b   Sosonkina, Masha ^b   Windus, Theresa L ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Component; Electronic structure; Integral; Software development

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; CUTTING TOOLS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT; COMMON COMPONENT ARCHITECTURE; COMPONENT; COMPONENT APPROACHES; ELECTRONIC.STRUCTURE; INTEGRAL; PROGRAMMING MODELS; SCIENCE APPLICATIONS; SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TOOLS;

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 58149334971     PISSN: 10589244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2008/486876     Document Type: Article

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