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HPC Software Quality
Fotis Georgatos edited this page Oct 15, 2013
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Software for HPC/Scientific Computing comes with lots of bells and whistles and, often requires customization at many levels in order to become available as service. Developers/providers of related software are not always aware of the challenges inherent in delivering the software as a service and this is a chance to communicate such needs via weighting the software quality, as regards the installation aspects.
- relocatable: ability to freely choose the delivery path within the system
- generality: make as few assumptions about the relying system as possible (eg. compiler version)
- buildable bundles: use of configure or cmake style installation mechanisms, wherever applicable
- orthogonality: do not hard-wire versions of software dependencies (incl. scripting languages etc)
- non-collission: should allow two installers to run in parallel freely (eg. avoid /tmp/extractdir)