Cultural Barriers to Software Productivity Practices at Los Alamos

Abstract

In recent years, code projects in the nuclear weapons program at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have given increased attention to modern software productivity practices. We found that some of the biggest barriers to adoption of new practices were not technical but cultural. This paper describes several of the cultural differences between the physics and computer science communities at LANL.

arXiv comment2 pages. Submission to Computational Science & Engineering Software Sustainability and Productivity Challenges (CSESSP) Workshop, Rockville, MD, October 15th-16th, 2015