The IDEAS Productivity project, in partnership with the DOE Computing Facilities of the ALCF, OLCF, and NERSC and the DOE Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has resumed the webinar series on Best Practices for HPC Software Developers, which we began in 2016.

As part of this series, we offer one-hour webinars on topics in scientific software development and high-performance computing, approximately once a month. Participation is free and open to the public, but registration is required for each event. The next webinar in the series is titled “Scientific Software Development with Eclipse”, and will be presented by Gregory Watson of ORNL.  The webinar will take place on Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at 1:00 pm ET.

Brief Abstract:  The Eclipse IDE is one of the most popular IDEs available, and its support for multiple languages, particularly C, C++ and Fortran has made it the go to IDE for scientific software development. Although an IDE like Eclipse can provide advanced development capabilities such as code recommendation and refactoring, these features can be difficult to utilize for complex code bases. Other challenges, such as ease of installation and use, reliability, and compatibility with existing  development practices also play a role. Ultimately the usefulness of the  tool is a tradeoff between the capabilities it provides and the  challenges of incorporating it into the development workflow. This  webinar will demonstrate some of the latest features available in Eclipse that are particularly useful for scientific application development, and examine how they can be used in a variety of different scenarios using realistic sample codes.