<!-------- @HEADER ! ! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! ! Zoltan Toolkit for Load-balancing, Partitioning, Ordering and Coloring ! Copyright 2012 Sandia Corporation ! ! Under the terms of Contract DE-AC04-94AL85000 with Sandia Corporation, ! the U.S. Government retains certain rights in this software. ! ! Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without ! modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are ! met: ! ! 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright ! notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. ! ! 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright ! notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the ! documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. ! ! 3. Neither the name of the Corporation nor the names of the ! contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from ! this software without specific prior written permission. ! ! THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY SANDIA CORPORATION "AS IS" AND ANY ! EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE ! IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR ! PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL SANDIA CORPORATION OR THE ! CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, ! EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ! PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR ! PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF ! LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING ! NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS ! SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. ! ! Questions? Contact Karen Devine kddevin@sandia.gov ! Erik Boman egboman@sandia.gov ! ! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! ! @HEADER -------> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Mozilla/4.04 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) [Netscape]"> <META NAME="sandia.approved" CONTENT="SAND99-1376"> <META NAME="author" CONTENT="karen devine, kddevin@sandia.gov"> <TITLE> Zoltan Developer's Guide: Introduction</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <div ALIGN=right><b><i><a href="dev.html">Zoltan Developer's Guide</a> | <a href="dev_intro_philosophy.html">Next</a> | <a href="dev.html">Previous</a></i></b></div> <H2> <A NAME="intro"></A>Introduction and General Principles</H2> The goal of the Zoltan project is to design a general-purpose tool for parallel data management for unstructured, dynamic applications. This tool includes a suite of load-balancing algorithms, an unstructured communication package, distributed data directories, and dynamic debugging tools that can be used by a variety of applications. It will, thus, be used by many application developers and be added to by many algorithm developers. Software projects of this scale need general guidelines and principles so that the code produced is easily maintained and added to. We have tried to keep restrictions on developers to a minimum. However, we do require that a few coding practices be followed. These guidelines are described in the following sections: <BLOCKQUOTE><A HREF="dev_intro_philosophy.html">Philosophy of Zoltan</A> <BR><A HREF="dev_intro_coding.html">Coding Principles in Zoltan</A> <BR><A HREF="dev_intro_sqe.html">Zoltan Quality Assurance</A> </BLOCKQUOTE> <HR WIDTH="100%"> <BR>[<A HREF="dev.html">Table of Contents</A> | <A HREF="dev_intro_philosophy.html">Next: Philosophy of Zoltan</A> | <A HREF="dev.html">Previous: Table of Contents</A> | <a href="https://www.sandia.gov/general/privacy-security/index.html">Privacy and Security</a>] </BODY> </HTML>