NetBuild: transparent cross-platform access to computational software libraries

摘要

NetBuild is a suite of tools which automate the process of selecting, locating, downloading, configuring, and installing computational software libraries from over the Internet, and which aid in the construction and cataloging of such libraries. Unlike many other tools, NetBuild is designed to work across a wide variety of computing platforms, and perform fine-grained matching to find the most suitable version of a library for a given target platform. We describe the architecture of NetBuild and its initial implementation.