CDE: A Tool for Creating Portable Experimental Software Packages

As science becomes increasingly computational, reproducibility has become increasingly difficult, perhaps surprisingly. In many contexts, virtualization and cloud computing can mitigate the issues involved without significant overhead to the researcher, enabling the next generation of rigorous and r...

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Published inComputing in science & engineering Vol. 14; no. 4; pp. 32 - 35
Main Author Guo, Philip
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York IEEE 01.07.2012
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
and enhancement
Barriers
Computation
Computational modeling
Computer programs
configuration management
distribution
Linux
maintenance
Maintenance engineering
Packages
Portability
Reproducibility of results
Research and development
Scientific computing
Software
Software engineering
Software packages
software release management and delivery
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Summary:As science becomes increasingly computational, reproducibility has become increasingly difficult, perhaps surprisingly. In many contexts, virtualization and cloud computing can mitigate the issues involved without significant overhead to the researcher, enabling the next generation of rigorous and reproducible computational science.
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ISSN:1521-9615
1558-366X
DOI:10.1109/MCSE.2012.36