Make: a declarative, lazy, parallel workload manager. Elegant or obsolete?

Make is a classic Unix development tool, which may seem archaic and narrow-purpose. But if you think of it as a declarative, parallelized workflow automation tool, it sounds more relevant. We'll consider stereotypical use of make, then its general properties, and show some interesting examples of make applied to unusual uses.
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This webinar was presented by Mark Hahn (SHARCNET) on March 13th, 2024, as a part of a series of weekly Compute Ontario Colloquia. The webinar was hosted by SHARCNET. The colloquia cover different advanced research computing (ARC) and high performance computing (HPC) topics, are approximately 45 minutes in length, and are delivered by experts in the relevant fields. Further details can be found on this web page: https://www.computeontario.ca/trainin... . Recordings, slides, and other materials can be found here: https://helpwiki.sharcnet.ca/wiki/Onl...

SHARCNET is a consortium of 19 Canadian academic institutions who share a network of high performance computers (http://www.sharcnet.ca). SHARCNET is a part of Compute Ontario (http://computeontario.ca/) and Digital Research Alliance of Canada (https://alliancecan.ca).