Special Issue:component And Framework Technology In High-performance And Scientific Computing

摘要

This special issue of Concurrency and Computing: Practice and Experience grew out of the CompFrame 2005 workshop in Atlanta, Georgia. The CompFrame workshop series is intended to foster discussions and build an international community of those who are developing and using component and framework technologies in high-performance scientific computing applications. Component and framework technology is already mainstream in desktop and network-based computing environments, but it has lagged behind in the high-performance computing (HPC) community. The reasons for this stem partly from a general lack of awareness of component concepts in the community, but mostly from the fact that established component models do not adequately support characteristics that computational scientists consider crucial. However, when these issues are addressed, the evidence shows that component and framework approaches can bring to the HPC community the same kinds of benefits that they already provide to other communities, including: better scaling of software development with the number of developers; easier reuse and interoperability of software; higher productivity in software and application development; and better management of large, complex software systems.