Campus Bridging: Software & Software Service Issues Workshop Report

This report summarizes the discussion at and findings of a workshop on the software and services aspects of cyberinfrastructure as they apply to campus bridging. The workshop took a broad view of software and services, including services in the business sense of the word, such as user support, in addition to information technology services. Specifically, the workshop addressed the following two goals: * Suggest common elements of software stacks widely usable across the nation/world to promote interoperability/economy of scale; and * Suggested policy documents that any research university should have in place.The preparation of this report and related documents was supported by several sources, including: * The National Science Foundation through Grant 0829462 (Bradley C. Wheeler, PI; Geoffrey Brown, Craig A. Stewart, Beth Plale, Dennis Gannon Co-PIs). * Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute (http://pti.iu.edu/) for funding staff providing logistical support of the task force activities, writing and editorial staff, and layout and production of the final report document. * RENCI (the Renaissance Computing Institute, http://www.renci.org/) supported this workshop and report by generously providing the time and effort of John McGee. * Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu) supported this workshop and report by generously providing the time and effort of Guy Almes

Cyberinfrastructure Software Sustainability and Reusability: Report from an NSF-funded workshop

Contributing writers: Guy Almes, Amy Apon, Geoffrey Brown, David Lifka, Andrew Lumsdaine, Marlon Pierce, Beth Plale, Ruth Pordes, Craig A. Stewart, Von Welch1, Bradley C. Wheele

Final report on accomplishments of a Task Force on Campus Bridging sponsored workshop: Campus Leadership Engagement in Building a Coherent Campus Cyberinfrastructure

In 2010, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a grant of $49,840 to the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill to organize a workshop on the topic of campus cyberinfrastructure with the title “Campus Bridging Taskforce Sponsored Workshop: Campus Leadership Engagement in Building a Coherent Campus Cyberinfrastructure.” This report discusses the contents of the full workshop report to the NSF as well as the accomplishments and outcomes reported via the NSF’s online reporting system.This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. 1059812 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with Patrick Dreher as principal investigator and Craig Stewart, James Pepin, Guy Almes, and Michael Mundrane as co-principal investigators. Stewart’s involvement was supported by the Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute, which is supported in part by the Lilly Endowment, Inc. (a private charitable trust). Any opinions, findings and conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s), and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF or the Lilly Endowment

An extensible file system for HYDRA

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The core of programming systems

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Software: Practice and Experience

Four programming languages (Fortran, Cobol, Jovial and the proposed DoD standard) are compared in the light of modern ideas of good software engineering practice. The comparison begins by identifying a core for each language that captures the essential properties of the language and the intent of the language designers. These core languages then serve as a basis for the discussion of the language philosophies and the impact of the language on gross program organization and on the use of individual statements</p