DOE Code: The New Department of Energy Software Center

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) is charged with cataloging and preserving the software artifacts, among other things, produced by the Department's researchers. The fast pace at which the software world changes - including the rise and dominance of Open Source Software - has presented OSTI with the opportunity to update and expand its Software Center. These updates will provide a platform for the research community that combines social coding with OSTI's vast database of papers, authors, data, and legacy software to provide an integrated, dynamic environment for scientific software developers. This poster will describe the on-going development effort around that platform, as well as the requirements that define it, and how OSTI is engaging the open research community at large in its development. This poster will also present a description of scientific software in a broader context to clarify further why such a platform is needed and the extremely great benefits expected from its deployment.