Tutorial at ISC10 in Hamburg, Germany: Software Development for HPC Applications

Many large-scale HPC applications are written by scientists who are experts in their specific research fields but have limited knowledge of software engineering techniques. Software is often developed in an ad-hoc manner, with little attention given to software engineering aspects such as software architecture, extensibility and maintainability. As a result, software developments take more time than necessary and further developments or reuse of existing software become very difficult tasks.

The tutorial "Software Development for HPC Applications" at the International Supercomputing Conference 2010 addresses those issues. It is given by Tobias Schlauch, the DLR software engineering representative, and Michael Meinel, a DLR researcher with experience in using software development tools in HPC projects. The tutorial is a short version of the regular software engineering workshops held at DLR by the same authors.

The tutorial is aimed at researchers who have practical experience with some high-level programming language, such as C, C++, Java or Python, and want to develop HPC software in a team environment. They learn how to use modern software development tools to increase their work efficiency and to produce software which is more reliable and can be maintained and extended more easily later on.

Information
Software Development for HPC Applications

Date
May 30, 2010

Location
ISC10