Guard: a tool for migrating scientific applications to the .NET Framework

David A Abramson, Greg Watson, Phu D Le

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    Abstract

    For many years, Unix has been the platform of choice for the development and execution of large scientific programs. The new Microsoft .NET Framework represents a major advance over previous runtime environments available in Windows platforms, and offers a number of architectural features that would be of value in scientific programs. However, there are such major differences between Unix and .NET under Windows, that the effort of migrating software is substantial. Accordingly, unless tools are developed for supporting this process, software migration is unlikely to occur. In this paper we discuss a ‘relative debugger’ called Guard, which provides powerful support for debugging programs as they are ported from one platform to another. We describe a prototype implementation developed for Microsoft’s Visual Studio. NET, a rich interactive environment that supports code development for the .NET Framework. The paper discusses the overall architecture of Guard under VS.NET, and highlights some of the technical challenges that were encountered.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationComputational Science – ICCS 2002
    Subtitle of host publicationInternational Conference Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 21-24, 2002 Proceedings, Part II
    EditorsPeter M.A. Sloot, C.J. Kenneth Tan, Jack J. Dongarra, Alfons G. Hoekstra
    Place of PublicationBerlin Germany
    PublisherSpringer
    Pages834-843
    Number of pages10
    ISBN (Print)354043593X
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2002
    EventInternational Conference on Computational Science 2002 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Duration: 21 Apr 200224 Apr 2002
    Conference number: 2nd
    https://link-springer-com.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/book/10.1007/3-540-46080-2#toc (Proceedings)

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
    PublisherSpringer
    Volume2330
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743

    Conference

    ConferenceInternational Conference on Computational Science 2002
    Abbreviated titleICCS 2002
    Country/TerritoryNetherlands
    CityAmsterdam
    Period21/04/0224/04/02
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