The Prickly Pear Archive

We propose the creation of an on-line journal that integrates with a component framework. By means of the framework, simulations referenced in the paper can be run (or re-run) on journal supercomputers at will, allowing verification of the results or deeper analysis of the paper's problem space. The on-line journal would provide standardized job launch and control mechanisms, data formats, and address code portability issues. Through the use of the framework and its components authors can make use of built-in productivity and readability enhancing features (such as automatic parallelism), leverage code published in previous works, and gain stature as their published modules are used by others. We feel that Cactus is an ideal candidate for the on-line journal, therefore we propose the name “The Prickly Pear Archive” for the on-line journal, taking the name from a species of cactus that can be used to make paper.