Michael Aivazis - Pyre, a distributed component framework with Python

- Pyre
	- portable (C, C++, F77, F90)
	- all native compilers on supported platforms (Unix, OS X, Windows)

- why write software to help you write software?
	- needed for large teams, members with specialized but incomplete skills
	- end user is not author
	- give illusion of being on your laptop when interfacing with supercomputers

- Pyre is
	- a software architecture/component framework
	- replace components with different implementation
	- Pyre abstracts tasks fulfilled by components
	- user can select components to fulfill tasks