Community Organizations: Changing the Culture in Which Research Software Is Developed and Sustained

Software is the key crosscutting technology that enables advances in mathematics, computer science, and domain-specific science and engineering to achieve robust simulations and analysis for science, engineering, and other research fields. However, software itself has not traditionally received focu...

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Published in:Computing in science & engineering 2019-03, Vol.21 (2), p.8-24
Main Authors: Katz, Daniel S., McInnes, Lois Curfman, Bernholdt, David E., Mayes, Abigail Cabunoc, Hong, Neil P. Chue, Duckles, Jonah, Gesing, Sandra, Heroux, Michael A., Hettrick, Simon, Jimenez, Rafael C., Pierce, Marlon, Weaver, Belinda, Wilkins-Diehr, Nancy
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Collaboration
Communities
Complexity
Computational modeling
Computer simulation
Conferences
Ecosystems
MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
Multiscale analysis
Organizations
Reproducibility
research software
Robustness (mathematics)
scientific software
Software
software community culture
software ecosystems
software productivity
software sustainability
Sustainable development
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Summary:Software is the key crosscutting technology that enables advances in mathematics, computer science, and domain-specific science and engineering to achieve robust simulations and analysis for science, engineering, and other research fields. However, software itself has not traditionally received focused attention from research communities; rather, software has evolved organically and inconsistently, with its development largely as by-products of other initiatives. Moreover, challenges in scientific software are expanding due to disruptive changes in computer hardware, increasing scale and complexity of data, and demands for more complex simulations involving multiphysics, multiscale modeling and outer-loop analysis. In recent years, community members have established a range of grass-roots organizations and projects to address these growing technical and social challenges in software productivity, quality, reproducibility, and sustainability. This article provides an overview of such groups and discusses opportunities to leverage their synergistic activities while nurturing work toward emerging software ecosystems.
ISSN:1521-9615
1558-366X
DOI:10.1109/MCSE.2018.2883051