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<span style="font-weight:bold" class="">From: </span>Michael A Heroux <<a href="mailto:maherou@sandia.gov" class="">maherou@sandia.gov</a>><br class="">
<span style="font-weight:bold" class="">Date: </span>Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 2:53 PM<br class="">
<span style="font-weight:bold" class="">To: </span>Trilinos Users <<a href="mailto:trilinos-users@trilinos.org" class="">trilinos-users@trilinos.org</a>><br class="">
<span style="font-weight:bold" class="">Subject: </span>IDEAS Project xSDK documents open for comment<br class="">
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<div class="">Dear Trilinos Users,</div>
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<div class="">The IDEAS Scientific SW Developer Productivity project is focused on specific activities intended to enhance developer productivity. One major deliverable for the project is an Extreme-scale Scientific SW Developer Kit (xSDK), which is a collection of
policies, tools and interoperability layers on top of widely used libraries. In early 2016, we will release the first version of the xSDK, which will encompass the hypre, PETSc, SuperLU and Trilinos libraries. </div>
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<div class="">Although each of these libraries will continue with their own independent development and distribution efforts, the IDEAS xSDK will provide common configure, build capabilities, the first phase of increased interoperability between the libraries, and explicit
policies for expected practices across all libraries. These enhancements should help users work more easily with all of these libraries in combination.</div>
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<div class="">In preparation for the first xSDK release, we have two draft documents (package compliance standards and standard configure/CMake options) open for community comment. </div>
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<div class="">These documents are available from the IDEAS Project website: <a href="https://ideas-productivity.org/resources/xsdk-docs" class="">https://ideas-productivity.org/resources/xsdk-docs</a>/</div>
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<div class="">We would value your comments on these documents over the next few weeks.</div>
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<div class="">For general information about the IDEAS Project, please visit the main webpage: <a href="https://ideas-productivity.org/" class="">https://ideas-productivity.org</a></div>
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<div class="">Thanks.</div>
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<div class="">Mike</div>
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