Extreme programming explained: embrace change
Extreme programming explained: embrace change
Foundations of component-based systems
Foundations of component-based systems
A Component Architecture for High-Performance Scientific Computing
International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
Managing Projects with GNU Make (Nutshell Handbooks)
Managing Projects with GNU Make (Nutshell Handbooks)
Agile Web Development with Rails
Agile Web Development with Rails
Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 (5th Edition)
Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 (5th Edition)
Bocca: a development environment for HPC components
Proceedings of the 2007 symposium on Component and framework technology in high-performance and scientific computing
OnRamp: enabling a new component-based development paradigm
Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Component-Based High Performance Computing
A component-based approach to integrated modeling in the geosciences: The design of CSDMS
Computers & Geosciences
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In high-performance scientific software development, the emphasis is often on short time to first solution. Even when the development of new components mostly reuses existing components or libraries and only small amounts of new code must be created, dealing with the component glue code and software build processes to obtain complete applications is still tedious and error-prone. Component-based software meant to reduce complexity at the application level increases complexity to the extent that the user must learn and remember the interfaces and conventions of the component model itself. To address these needs, we introduce Bocca, the first tool to enable application developers to perform rapid component prototyping while maintaining robust software-engineering practices suitable to HPC environments. Bocca provides project management and a comprehensive build environment for creating and managing applications composed of Common Component Architecture components. Of critical importance for high-performance computing (HPC) applications, Bocca is designed to operate in a language-agnostic way, simultaneously handling components written in any of the languages commonly used in scientific applications: C, C++, Fortran, Python and Java. Bocca automates the tasks related to the component glue code, freeing the user to focus on the scientific aspects of the application. Bocca embraces the philosophy pioneered by Ruby on Rails for web applications: start with something that works, and evolve it to the user's purpose.