2002/10/20 by Jens Krueger, Krueger, Jens
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Condensed Matter (cond-mat) #Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems #FOS: Physical sciences #Scientific Computing and Data Management #Software Engineering Research #cond-mat
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0210430
Invited talk at NOBUGS2002 Conference, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD NOBUGS abstract identifier NOBUGS2002/017 9 pages, LaTeX
openalex publication_date 2002/10/20 · arxiv created 2002/11/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Most of the scientific software is developed in the same manner: It starts at a lab and the scientist says "This part of software is only for my private use". But the software grows and grows, and it comes the time, that other scientists want to use it, too. If they are not working in the same lab and on the same machine, it leads to the problem how to install this software on the new machine. Sometimes it is relatively easy to adopt the makefile to the new conditions (compiler, linker, libraries), if it is well written. But mostly it is not done by changing some pathes. One has to change the compiler, linker, additional or standard libraries, and so on. I want to show how you avoid a lot of trouble, if you write software, which may be used on different plattforms.