Management File

The Management File (MGT) is a developer generated file that describes the management features of the software project notably, organizational breakdown and responsibilities, work activities breakdown, selected life cycle, deliveries, milestones and new risks. Note that the report ref. [2] entitled “Development Plan" is primarily concerned with the documents needed for managing the project, and how they should be arranged as a website.

The range of levels of detail and implicitly computational cost (from Exascale down to laptop) will follow from the projected development via a sequence of proxyapps of increasing complexity and detail. This process is expected to enable an enhanced selection through experience and feedback, of

  • • a common set of software objects/classes

  • • computer languages suitable for design with ’separation of concerns

  • • numerical algorithms

  • • user interfaces

  • • interfaces to databases and coupling to codes not conforming to NEPTUNE standards

Selections will be recognised as better if they lead to improvements in scalability and portability, reliability and resilience, extensibility, and ease-of-use.