Research Article
Open-Source Software in Computational Research: A Case Study
| | Worked well | Needs improvement |
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Open source access | (i)
Ability to represent complex geometry | | (ii)
Well-written code | (ii)
Continual changes in the code make it
difficult to repeat/reproduce earlier work with the revised code | | (iii)
Well-organized website that is
regularly updated | (iii)
Documentation needs to be updated and made
thorough | | (iv)
Discussion forum and archived messages | (iv)
Undocumented capabilities that users
become aware only after browsing through source code | | (v)
Questions are answered quickly, issues
resolved quickly | (v)
Tutorial that one can use to learn how
the code is configured | | (vi) Training of students at NETL in summer | |
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