An introduction to the OLYMPUS system

✍ Scribed by K.V. Roberts

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1974
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 545 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-4655
• DOI: 10.1016/0010-4655(74)90025-3

✦ Synopsis

A standard methodology has been established for the design, construction and operation of Fortran programs to solve initial-value and other problems. The following two papers describe the OLYMPUS library package which is used in implementing this methodology on the ICL 4/70 at Culham, together with an illustrative example of a laser fusion code called MEDUSA 1 which has been developed in this way. Subsequent papers will describe how OLYMPUS can be installed on IBM and CDC machines. This article provides a brief introduction to the OLYMPUS system and explains why it has been adopted.

Physics Communications in due course.

Table We have found it useful to standardize many of the ________ _____Program architecture. stages in the design, construction, testing, documenta-INSTRUCTIONS 0 Control tjon and operation of Fortran programs. Several as-1 Prologue

pects of the OLYMPUS system are listed in table 2 Calculation and are briefly described in the sections which follow.

Classes of subprograms 3 Output

A more detailed discussion and justification is given 4 Epilogue 5 Diagnostics elsewhere [2, 3]. Preferably this article should be U Utilities read in conjunction with a listing of an olympian code, e.g. MEDUSA 1 [6].