ZLIB++: Object Oriented Numerical Library for Differential Algebra

Technical Report · Wed Jul 09 00:00:00 EDT 2003

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/813295· OSTI ID:813295

Yan, Yiton T ^[1]

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1. SLAC

New software engineering tools and object-oriented design have a great impact on the software development process. but in high energy physics all major packages were implemented in FORTRAN and porting of these codes to another language is rather complicated, primarily because of their huge size and heavy use of FORTRAN mathematical libraries. But some intrinsic accelerator concepts, such as nested structure of modern accelerators, look very pretty when implemented with the object-oriented approach. In this paper the authors present the object-oriented version of ZLIB, numerical library for differential algebra, and show how the modern approaches can simplify the development and support of accelerator codes, decrease code size, and allow description of complex mathematical transformations by simple language.

• Research Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 813295
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB-10040
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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