Software tools for controlling, distributing, and installing software at Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA)
This paper focuses on software tools Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) uses to control, distribute, and install user level software, such as language, libraries, and utilities. LANL's computing network is complex enough to represent many, if not all of the problem seen at other sites. The network keeps a system of multi-leveled security partitions separate, while integrating Cray supercomputers with both CTSS and UNICOS operating systems as well as many other types of machines such as VAXes with VMS, SUNs, and Apollos. Change control is the process by which the distribution and installation of new or changes software is controlled. Software tools have been and are being incorporated into the change control procedures to improve efficiency, reliability, and security. Tools for general management are designed to be accused from any type of computer, while tools for installing files on specific operating systems are designed to be independent. One of the new independent tools is a software package for distributing and installing UNIX{trademark} software. This package, called CCMAKE, could be used as a basis for standardizing a way to assure that all needed files and information are included in a distribution as well as a way to install normal applications, utilities, and libraries. It therefore has the potential to benefit exchanging software between UNIX sites. 1 ref.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- DOE/DP
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 5536700
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-89-1829; CONF-891149-1; ON: DE89012633
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Supercomputing '89 conference, Reno, NV (USA), 13-17 Nov 1989
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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