They can choose from among a variety of views and several levels of detail. I implementation that encompasses NCSA software. Phase II will be the development and deployment of an Alliance software database that will include software information from all PACS partner sites that offer computational resources through the Alliance. In Phase II, the software information will migrate to a RIB, which stands for Repository in a Box , a package for setting up and maintaining software repositories. At that time, data from Alliance PACS sites will be added, creating an all-Alliance software information repository.
Users benefit from an accurate and current picture of available software.
The database provides contact information for the software coordinators responsible for installation and use. The email and phone numbers give users a way to reach staff when questions arise. The software coordinators are NCSA staff who are specialists in specific areas such as chemistry, computational fluid dynamics, math and statistics, or visualization. A small, cross-center team worked for several months to develop and implement the Phase I implementation. The programming talent is David Altenburg, who worked during the fall to make the Phase-I FileMakerPro database a reality.