The PETSc Community as Infrastructure

The communities that develop and support open-source scientific software packages are crucial to the utility and success of such packages. Moreover, they form an important part of the human infrastructure that enables scientific progress. This article discusses aspects of the Portable Extensible Too...

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Published inComputing in science & engineering Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 6 - 15
Main Authors Adams, Mark, Balay, Satish, Marin, Oana, McInnes, Lois Curfman, Mills, Richard Tran, Munson, Todd, Zhang, Hong, Zhang, Junchao, Brown, Jed, Eijkhout, Victor, Faibussowitsch, Jacob, Knepley, Matthew, Kong, Fande, Kruger, Scott, Sanan, Patrick, Smith, Barry F.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York IEEE 01.05.2022
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Subjects
Codes
Computational modeling
Computer architecture
Infrastructure
MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
Open source software
Packages
Software algorithms
Software packages
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Summary:The communities that develop and support open-source scientific software packages are crucial to the utility and success of such packages. Moreover, they form an important part of the human infrastructure that enables scientific progress. This article discusses aspects of the Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation community, its organization, and technical approaches that enable community members to help each other efficiently and effectively.
Bibliography:USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
AC02-06CH11357; 17-SC-20-SC; SC0016140; AC02-0000011838; AC02-05CH11231
USDOE Exascale Computing Project (ECP)
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
ISSN:1521-9615
1558-366X
DOI:10.1109/MCSE.2022.3169974