DESIGNING SOFTWARE FOR COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENTS. GUIDELINES AND CHALLENGES

V. I. Legonkov
VANT. Ser. Metodiki i Programmy Chislennogo Resheniya Zadach Matematicheskoy Fiziki 1987. Вып.1. С. 21-28.

      The paper discusses difficulties involved in developing a modular/structured approach to programming, creating problem-oriented data definition languages, reasonable combination of higher and lower level languages, designing general service-type program subsystems.
      A general structure of computational experiment software is given and some results obtained from its implementation and operation are reported.

      The SOYUZ program package is designed to solve 2-D time-dependent problems in continuum mechanics.
      The package is defined as a set of programs which are written based on modular/structured programming by means of common languages and tools. These programs, when executed, use the same data definition languages, houskeeping and service subsystems, and databases.
      An overview of package component interactions in design and application execution phases is presented.