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A User-oriented Portable, Reproducible, and Scalable Software Ecosystem

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing 2026-07-21 v1

Abstract

It is normal for scientists to perform their research on a diverse set of hardware, ranging from laptops and workstations to supercomputers and cloud resources. The standard scenario requires a mix of these resources. In this paper we describe a software ecosystem that enables users to rely on the same development environment for running their workflows across the different computational resources. We describe a modular, unified command-line interface that allows for the interaction with a user-workflow across diverse hardware platform. The software ecosystem has been successfully tested as part of the plan4res EU H2020 project. It can be extended to other projects with similar requirements, so that they can benefit from the same approach for executing computational workflows.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2607.18929,
  title  = {A User-oriented Portable, Reproducible, and Scalable Software Ecosystem},
  author = {Alfio Lazzaro and Utz-Uwe Haus and Sandrine Charousset and Nina Mujkanovic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.18929},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

13 pages, 4 figures