Publication
The PETSc Community as Infrastructure
Authors
Adams, Mark F.; Balay, Satish; Marin, Oana; McInnes, Lois; Mills, Richard; Munson, Todd; Zhang, Hong; Zhang, Junchao; Brown, Jed; Eijkhout, Victor; Sanan, Patrick; Smith, Barry
Abstract
The communities that develop and support open-source scientific software packages are crucial to the utility and success of such packages. Moreover, they form an important part of the human infrastructure that enables scientific progress. This article discusses aspects of the Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation community, its organization, and technical approaches that enable community members to help each other efficiently and effectively.