How to Use the Trilinos Infrastructure for Your Own Project

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How to Use the Trilinos Infrastructurefor Your
Own Project
James M. Willenbring Michael N. Phenow Trilinos
User Group Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005 1100
1145 am Building 980, Room 24, Albuquerque
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Contents
I. Project characteristics II. Goals III. Driving
principles IV. Services Tools - Source
management - Communication channels -
Requirements issue tracking -
Documentation - Configuration management -
Information distribution - Automated testing -
Release process
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Project Characteristics

• 1. Distributed team
• 2. Numerous small, expert teams
• Evolving, varied requirements
• Budgetary focus on algorithms development
• Funding sources require
• Release of valuable code
• Certain standard of SQA

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Goals
1. Quality 2. Modularity 3. Interoperability
(internal and external) 4. Scalability
(algorithms and framework) 5. Efficient Use of
Expert Time 6. Availability 7. Support
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Driving Principles
1. Global services 2. Package orthogonality 3. Tig
ht collaborations 4. Iterative development 5. Proc
ess Improvement
Two-tiered architecture
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Services Tools
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Source Management
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Communication Channels
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Requirements Issue Tracking
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Documentation
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Configuration Management
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Automated Testing
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Release Process
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Questions
How to Use the Trilinos Infrastructurefor Your
Own Project