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\subsection{Contributions to External Software Products}\label{subsection:external-contributions}
While much of ECP ST efforts and focus are on the product that we develop and support, it is important to note that some of our important work, and certainly some our most sustainable and highly leveraged work, is done by providing requirements, analysis, design and prototype capabilities for vendor and other third party software.  Many software studies have shown that 70 to 80\% of the cost of a successful software product goes into post-delivery maintenance. Our effort summarized in Table~\ref{table:externalproducts} expressly eliminate this large cost for DOE because the product is developed and supported outside of DOE.


\begin{table}
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			Product & Contribution\\\hline
			MAGMA & ECP ST math libraries efforts inform the design, implementation, and optimization of numerical linear algebra routines on NVIDIA GPUs\\\hline
			Compilers and runtime & The Validation and Verification Suite (on-going effort) for the SOLLVE project has helped uncover bugs in OpenMP implementations provided by Cray, LLVM and XL.\\\hline
			SWIG (www.swig.org) & The ECP ST ForTrilinos efforts contributes the capability to generate automatic Fortran bindings from C++ code.\\\hline
			TotalView debugger & ECP ST staff are engaged in co-design of OMPD, the new debugging interface for OpenMP programs, along with RogueWave engineers. This effort helps RogueWave improve their main debugging product, TotalView, by making it aware and compatible with recent advances in OpenMP debugging.\\\hline
			MPI Forum & ECP ST staff maintain several chapters of the MPI Forum, effort that require a constant involvement with the other authors, as well as participation to the online discussions related to the chapter and regular attendance of the MPI Forum face-to-face activities. An ECP ST staff member belongs to several working group related to scalability and resilience where, in addition to the discussions, implements proof-of-concept features in OpenMPI.\\\hline
			Cray MPICH MPI-IO & As part of the ExaHDF5 ECP project, the ALCF worked with Cray MPI-IO developers to merge the upstream ROMIO code into the downstream proprietary Cray MPICH MPI-IO, leveraging Cray’s extensive suite of IO performance tests and further tuning the algorithm.  Cray is currently targeting it’s deployment in an experimental release.\\\hline
			OpenHPC & An ECP ST staff member serves on the OpenHPC Technical Steering Committee as a Component Development representative.\\\hline
			LLVM &  An ECP ST staff member is co-leading design discussions around the parallel IR and loop-optimization infrastructure.\\\hline
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		\caption{\label{table:externalproducts} External products to which ECP ST activities contribute.  Participation in requirements, analysis, design and prototyping activities for third-party products is some of the most effective software work we can do.}
	\end{table}