Community organizations: Changing the culture in which research software is developed and sustained

Daniel S. Katz; Lois Curfman McInnes; David E. Bernholdt; Abigail Cabunoc Mayes; Neil P.Chue Hong; Jonah Duckles; Sandra Gesing; Michael A. Heroux; Simon Hettrick; Rafael C. Jimenez; Marlon Pierce; Belinda Weaver; Nancy Wilkins-Diehr

doi:10.1109/MCSE.2018.2883051

Community organizations: Changing the culture in which research software is developed and sustained

Daniel S. Katz, Lois Curfman McInnes, David E. Bernholdt, Abigail Cabunoc Mayes, Neil P.Chue Hong, Jonah Duckles, Sandra Gesing, Michael A. Heroux, Simon Hettrick, Rafael C. Jimenez, Marlon Pierce, Belinda Weaver, Nancy Wilkins-Diehr

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	8565942
Pages (from-to)	8-24
Number of pages	17
Journal	Computing in Science and Engineering
Volume	21
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2018.2883051
State	Published - Mar 1 2019

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The authors would like to thank the contribution of Alice Allen to this paper. The Software Sustainability Institute acknowledges the support of the EPSRC through Grant EP/H043160/1 and EPSRC, ESRC, and BBSRC through Grant EP/ N006410/1. URSSI is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) award 1743188. IDEAS, BSSw, and xSDK acknowledge support from the Exascale Computing Project (17-SC-20-SC), a collaborative effort of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science and the National Nuclear Security Administration. SGCI is supported by NSF award 1547611. ELIXIR acknowledges the support of the ELIXIR-EXCELERATE grant funded by the European Commission within the Research Infrastructures program of Horizon 2020, grant agreement number 676559. Mozilla Science is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Helmsley Charitable Trust, and the Siegel Family Endowment. The Carpentries is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the ongoing annual membership contributions of more than 70 member research organizations in 10 countries.

Keywords

research software
scientific software
software community culture
software ecosystems
software productivity
software sustainability

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Katz, D. S., McInnes, L. C., Bernholdt, D. E., Mayes, A. C., Hong, N. P. C., Duckles, J., Gesing, S., Heroux, M. A., Hettrick, S., Jimenez, R. C., Pierce, M., Weaver, B., & Wilkins-Diehr, N. (2019). Community organizations: Changing the culture in which research software is developed and sustained. Computing in Science and Engineering, 21(2), 8-24. Article 8565942. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2018.2883051

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