Extensible component-based architecture for FLASH, a massively parallel, multiphysics simulation code

Parallel Computing

Volumn 35, Issue 10-11, 2009, Pages 512-522

  Dubey, Anshu ^a   Antypas, Katie ^b   Ganapathy, Murali K ^c   Reid, Lynn B ^a   Riley, Katherine ^d   Sheeler, Dan ^d   Siegel, Andrew ^d   Weide, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extensibility; FLASH; Massively parallel; Portability; Software architecture

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT-BASED ARCHITECTURE; DUAL MODES; EXTENSIBILITY; FLASH; HIGH PERFORMANCE APPLICATIONS; LEGACY CODE; MASSIVELY PARALLEL; MULTIPHYSICS SIMULATIONS; PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS; PORTABILITY; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE PROCESS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; UNIT TESTS; USER SURVEYS; VERIFIABILITY;

ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE PORTABILITY; MAINTAINABILITY;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 70350572244     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parco.2009.08.001     Document Type: Article

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