The PETSc Community Is the Infrastructure
Mark Adams, Satish Balay, Oana Marin, Lois Curfman McInnes, Richard, Tran Mills, Todd Munson, Hong Zhang, Junchao Zhang, Jed Brown, Victor, Eijkhout, Jacob Faibussowitsch, Matthew Knepley, Fande Kong, Scott Kruger,, Patrick Sanan, Barry F. Smith, Hong Zhang

TL;DR
This paper highlights the vital role of the PETSc community in supporting open source scientific software, emphasizing how its organization and technical strategies foster effective collaboration and scientific progress.
Contribution
It provides an in-depth analysis of the PETSc community’s structure and technical methods that facilitate efficient peer support and collaboration.
Findings
Community organization enhances support efficiency
Technical approaches enable effective peer assistance
Community is a key part of scientific infrastructure
Abstract
The communities who develop and support open source scientific software packages are crucial to the utility and success of such packages. Moreover, these communities form an important part of the human infrastructure that enables scientific progress. This paper discusses aspects of the PETSc (Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation) community, its organization, and technical approaches that enable community members to help each other efficiently.
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Taxonomy
TopicsScientific Computing and Data Management · Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems · Advanced Data Storage Technologies
