Two new C++ libraries for atmospheric research - Sylwester Arabas [ C++Now 2015 ]
Channel: CppNow
Date: 26/02/2016

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Atmospheric science has traditionally been one of the toughest strongholds of Fortran. This talk will summarise experiences from development of two C++ libraries aimed at the atmospheric community. The libmpdata++ [1] implements state-of-the-art numerics for partial differential equations. The libcloudph++ [2] features a collection of algorithms for modelling clouds and precipitation.

The story begins with obtaining research funding for software development, goes on to the design and implementation -- the focus of the presentation, and concludes with public peer-review of the journal-paper-structured documentation of the libraries. The libraries are free and open source software and were implemented using several C++ libraries including: Blitz++, Thrust, Boost.Units, Boost.Thread, Boost.odeint and Boost.Python. The talk will give details on how and why these libraries were used and how their use contributed to a level of maintainability hardly attainable with other languages.

Slides: https://github.com/boostcon/cppnow_presentations_2015/raw/master/files/boost-atmospheric-research.pdf

[1]: http://libmpdataxx.igf.fuw.edu.pl 
[2]: http://libcloudphxx.igf.fuw.edu.pl
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