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Legacy application software is typically written in a dialect of Fortran, and must be reprogrammed to run on today’s microprocessor-based multicomputer architectures. We describe our experiences in modernizing a legacy direct numerical simulation (DNS) code with the KeLP software infrastructure. The resultant code runs on the IBM SP2 with higher numerical resolutions than possible with the legacy code running on a vector mainframe.
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Howe, J., Baden, S.B., Grimmett, T., Nomura, K. (1998). Modernization of legacy application software. In: Kågström, B., Dongarra, J., Elmroth, E., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Applied Parallel Computing Large Scale Scientific and Industrial Problems. PARA 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1541. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0095344
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