A Survey on Sustainable Software Ecosystems to Support Experimental and Observational Science at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Abstract

In the search for a sustainable approach for software ecosystems that supports experimental and observational science (EOS) across Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), we conducted a survey to understand the current and future landscape of EOS software and data. This paper describes the survey design we used to identify significant areas of interest, gaps, and potential opportunities, followed by a discussion on the obtained responses. The survey formulates questions about project demographics, technical approach, and skills required for the present and the next five years. The study was conducted among 38 ORNL participants between June and July of 2021 and followed the required guidelines for human subjects training. We plan to use the collected information to help guide a vision for sustainable, community-based, and reusable scientific software ecosystems that need to adapt effectively to: i) the evolving landscape of heterogeneous hardware in the next generation of instruments and computing (e.g. edge, distributed, accelerators), and ii) data management requirements for data-driven science using artificial intelligence.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputational Science - ICCS 2022, 22nd International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsDerek Groen, Clélia de Mulatier, Valeria V. Krzhizhanovskaya, Peter M.A. Sloot, Maciej Paszynski, Jack J. Dongarra
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages560-574
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9783031087592
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event22nd Annual International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2022 - London, United Kingdom
Duration: Jun 21 2022Jun 23 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13353 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference22nd Annual International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Period06/21/2206/23/22

Funding

This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The publisher acknowledges the US government license to provide public access under the DOE Public Access Plan (https://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan). G. R. Watson—Contributed equally to this work.

FundersFunder number
U.S. Department of Energy

    Keywords

    • Experimental and observational science EOS
    • Scientific software ecosystem
    • Survey
    • Sustainability

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