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The ACTS collection project comprises a set of state-of-the-art software tools to speed up the development of High-Performance Computing Applications in science and engineering. We look at the development of High Level user interfaces using scripting languages like Python, to facilitate the access to ACTS technology to a wide community of computational scientists. PyACTS is our main project here, but we also visit other efforts within the community of developers of ACTS tools.
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Drummond, L.A., Galiano, V., Migallón, V., Penadés, J. (2007). High-Level User Interfaces for the DOE ACTS Collection. In: Kågström, B., Elmroth, E., Dongarra, J., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Applied Parallel Computing. State of the Art in Scientific Computing. PARA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4699. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75755-9_31
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