The Eclipse IDE is one of the most popular IDEs available, and its support for multiple languages, particularly C, C++ and Fortran has made it the go to IDE for scientific software development. Although an IDE like Eclipse can provide advanced development capabilities such as code recommendation and refactoring, these features can be difficult to utilize for complex code bases. Other challenges, such as ease of installation and use, reliability, and compatibility with existing development practices also play a role. Ultimately the usefulness of the tool is a tradeoff between the capabilities it provides and the challenges of incorporating it into the development workflow. This webinar will demonstrate some of the latest features available in Eclipse that are particularly useful for scientific application development, and examine how they can be used in a variety of different scenarios using realistic sample codes.

Presenter

• Greg Watson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Presenter Bio

Gregory Watson is a Senior Research Scientist in the Computer Science Research Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. from Monash University in 2000. Gregory’s research interests include programming tools and development environments for high performance and scientific computing, software engineering practices, reproducibility, and education and training for scientists. He is founder of the Eclipse Parallel Tools Platform, a project that was originally started as a collaboration between Los Alamos National Laboratory and IBM in 2004, and that continues to be used across laboratories, academia, and industry. He is also a founding member of the Eclipse Science Working Group, and project leader of the Eclipse Science Top Level Project.