NSF Workshop on Software Development Environment for Science & Engineering Applications

当前的软件开发实践和工具对于现在可用的计算能力来说是不够的。今天将运行的应用程序？S和明天？美国最强大的超级计算机将在许多领域帮助改善我们的世界，包括研究强风暴、流行病、地震和新产品开发。这些应用程序必须充分利用数十万个计算核心、数百tb的内存和数万个磁盘驱动器。将来，这样的系统可能会很好地结合许多不同类型的专用计算元素。关于？科学与工程应用的软件开发环境？将专注于为这些极其复杂的超级计算机开发软件所需的工具和实践。它还将考虑科学和工程应用的集成软件开发环境。这样的环境将允许研究人员使用比现在更直接和基于图形的工具来构建、编辑、修复和改进他们的软件的性能。关于？科学与工程应用软件开发环境将着重于开发千兆级及以上计算机应用程序所需的一套软件工具（编辑器、编译器、调试器、优化工具等）。它还将涵盖科学家和工程师所需的数字和通信库，编程语言和软件工程实践。讲习班将审议为科学和工程应用开发一种综合软件开发环境的可行性，这种环境在概念上类似于商业世界中使用的开发环境。研讨会将帮助建立最大化开发人员生产力的需求。它还将根据高性能计算中新兴的体系结构趋势解决应用程序可移植性和维护问题。

Current software development practices and tools are inadequate for the computing power that is now becoming available. Applications that will run on today?s and tomorrow?s most powerful supercomputers will help improve our world in a variety of fields, including the study of severe storms, epidemic disease, earthquakes, and new product development. These applications must fully exploit hundreds of thousands of compute cores, hundreds of terabytes of memory, and tens of thousands of disk drives. In the future, such systems may well combine many different types of specialized computing elements. The workshop on ?Software Development Environment for Science & Engineering Applications? will focus on the tools and practices needed to develop software for these incredibly complex supercomputers. It will also consider an integrated software development environment for science and engineering applications. Such an environment would allow researchers to build, edit, fix, and improve the performance of their software using more straightforward and graphically based tools than exist today.The workshop on ?Software Development Environment for Science & Engineering Applications will focus on the set of software tools (editors, compilers, debuggers, optimization tools, etc.) needed to develop applications for petascale and beyond computers. It will also cover the numerical and communications libraries, programming languages, and software engineering practices needed by the scientists and engineers. The workshop will consider the feasibility of developing an integrated software development environment for science and engineering applications, similar in concept to the IDEs used in the commercial world. The workshop will help establish requirements for maximizing developer productivity. It will also address issues of application portability and maintenance in light of emerging architectural trends in high-performance computing.