Introduction


Before moving on to the core of the assignment I firmly believe that there are certain things to explain first, for it would be – not useless, but a real waste if we went on without explaining these terms. So please bear with us for a while as it will certainly help you during your journey as you move further along this blog. So without wasting any more of your time let’s get started.

Software Engineering

As you can see this term consists of 2 distinct words : Software and Engineering. So what is Software and what’s Engineering?

Software

In very simple words, software is defined as computer applications and associated documentation. It refers to the intangible parts of the computer system and is the interface that links the end user to the hardware. For non IT people consider the following case. Say that you have a car and you are the driver. In this case the car is the hardware and you are the end user. So where’s the software? We can say that it is your ACTIONS i.e. what you do is what will drive the car. Similarly, keeping this in mind, software is what will drive the hardware and make it react to the end user.

Engineering : Is a discipline that completely englobes and deals with a particular object in practice.

Software Engineering : Can be defined as a discipline that deals with all aspects of software production - from its design to its implemetation stage.


Monday, October 1, 2007

Engineering / Scientific Software

Applying the same working principle, understanding the meaning of scientific will greatly help you to understand the idea of scientific software.

Scientific : Is a term to describe anything that has to do with science…

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Scientific software: It is a powerful specialised science based software that has been designed to help scientists and engineers in their work. The characteristics of this software is that it can deal with very large amount of data at a time and has heavy processing capabilities. By this I mean that the software can calculate very complex expressions in an analytic form and deliver the result almost instantaneously depending on the situations where they are used.

This type of software finds its place in almost all sciences. Applications of this software are :

1. Behavioral and social sciences: Examples are criminal science, psychology, political science.

2. Statistical software

3. Evironmental science:

4. Weather forecasts and for space programs in the NASA department.

5. Oil detection program: It is a scientific software used to detect the presence of oil under the sea by analyzing certain factors.
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