A survey of the practice of computational science

State of the Practice Reports, SC'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Prabhu, Prakash ^a   Kim, Hanjun ^a   Oh, Taewook ^a   Jablin, Thomas B ^a   Johnson, Nick P ^a   Zoufaly, Matthew ^a   Raman, Arun ^a   Liu, Feng ^a   Walker, David ^a   Zhang, Yun ^a   Ghosh, Soumyadeep ^a   August, David I ^a   Huang, Jialu ^a   Beard, Stephen ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL POWER; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE; COMPUTER SCIENTISTS; PARALLEL COMPUTATION; PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMMERS; PROGRAMMING TOOLS; RESEARCH ACTIVITIES; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES; SOFTWARE PRODUCTIVITY;

RESEARCH; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

SURVEYS;

EID: 83055188826     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2063348.2063374     Document Type: Conference Paper

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