Overview

This collection of articles consist of a series of written articles that go into details about various tools and frameworks often used in our COMPASS research. These articles usually provide examples, but are not hands-on. Instead, they focus on covering the basics and writing down knowledge that can be difficult to find elsewhere without trial and error.

GitHub, and Version Control

• Introduction to Version Control, Git, and GitHub
• Setting Up a GitHub Account
• Pulling, Committing, and Pushing
• Branches, Pull Requests, and Issues
• Merge Conflicts, Rebasing, and More
• Stashing, Diff-ing, and other Git Features

Build Management

CMake

• Building a CMake-based Project
• Using CMake to Develop a Project
• Advanced CMake Techniques

Spack

• How to use Spack
• Developing with "spack develop"
• Adding external packages

Expanded Topics

Knowledge of these more specialized topics may be needed for certain projects, but are not mandatory.

Kokkos

• What is Kokkos?
• Memory Spaces and Views, Execution Spaces and Parallel Loops
• A Simple Program Using Kokkos
• Simple profiling with Kokkos Tools

Cabana

• An Introduction to Cabana

Benchpark

• An Introduction to Benchpark