How Scientists Manage Code
December 7th, 2008
The latest issue of Computing in Science & Engineering has a paper by David Matthews, Steve Easterbrook, and myself titled “Configuration Management for Large-Scale Scientific Computing at the UK Met Office”. It describes how the folks who do climate modeling in the UK built a configuration management tool on top of Trac to handle their million-line code base.
For anyone who doesn’t feel like plowing through an academic paper, you can come to CUSEC and hear Steve Easterbrook present some of the lessons from this study:
Jan 22-24, Montreal. http://2009.cusec.net/