Improving Interoperability in Scientific Computing via MaRDI Open Interfaces

Dmitry I. Kabanov; Stephan Rave; Mario Ohlberger

doi:10.5334/jors.569

Improving Interoperability in Scientific Computing via MaRDI Open Interfaces

Journal of Open Research Software

Volume 13 (2025): Issue 1

By: Dmitry I. Kabanov , Stephan Rave and Mario Ohlberger

Open Access

|Nov 2025

Abstract

MaRDI Open Interfaces is a software project aimed at improving reuse and interoperability in scientific computing by alleviating the difficulties of crossing boundaries between different programming languages, such as C, Julia, or Python, in which numerical packages are usually implemented, and of switching between multiple implementations of the same mathematical problem, for example, between different solvers for time integration of differential equations. The software consists of a set of formal interface specifications for common scientific computing tasks, as well as a set of loosely coupled libraries that facilitate implementing these interfaces or adapting existing implementations for multiple programming languages and handle data marshalling automatically without sacrificing performance, enabling users to use different implementations without significant coding efforts. The software has high reuse potential, especially for the tasks such as benchmarking several solvers or when low-level access to the interface of a particular solver is not required.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.569 | Journal eISSN: 2049-9647

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Language: English

Submitted on: Apr 4, 2025

Accepted on: Oct 31, 2025

Published on: Nov 13, 2025

Published by: Ubiquity Press

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Keywords:

unified solver interfaces,

scientific computing interoperability,

numerical software,

scientific software,

scientific computing,

computational science,

cross-language computations,

automatic data exchange,

data marshalling,

programming interface,

reusability,

foreign function interface

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