Scientific computing's productivity gridlock: How software engineering can help

Computing in Science and Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 30-39

  Faulk, Stuart ^a   Loh, Eugene ^b   Vanter, Michael L Van De ^b   Squires, Susan ^c   Votta, Lawrence G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b SUN MICROSYSTEMS   (United States)

^c Tactics LLC

^d Brincos ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENTS; SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING; SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE PROCESS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 70450242720     PISSN: 15219615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCSE.2009.205     Document Type: Article

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