PACT (Portable Application Code Toolkit) <record_maintainer>Jan Moura <moura@bandit.llnl.gov> <date_of_information>Thu Jul 13 11:33:20 1995 <url>http://www.llnl.gov/def_sci/pact/pact_homepage.html <lifn>lifn:nhse:4971b1a3c8b80e64531760e2afe8eef9 <title_line>portable software development environment for the design and construction of portable applications, focusing on data portability, portable inter-process communication, and graphics <author>Stewart A. Brown <sabrown@llnl.gov>, Dennis Braddy <contact>Stewart A. Brown <sabrown@llnl.gov> <abstract>The Portable Application Code Toolkit (PACT) is a comprehensive, integrated, and portable software development environment created for applications having unique requirements not met with available software. By defining a single, higher level, standard programming interface, it shields appplication developers from the plethora of different hardware architectures and operating systems and their non-standard features. PACT is a set of libraries and utilities that easily integrates into your software project. <keywords>software development; data visualization; architecture independence <environment>Creates applications that compile and execute on a wide variety of platforms including Macintosh, SUN3, SUN4, SGI, DEC 3100, IBM RS6000, Solaris, Cray UNICOS, and HP9000. Lets you use the language of your choice (Fortran, C, C++, Scheme) to access its functionality. <comments>pact6_8_95-src is a compressed tar file pre-fixed by the pact installation script. Down load the file to local disk and follow the instructions in the pact.README file. <category>ppt-env </urc>