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Outreach for Better Scientific Software

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posted on 2019-02-22, 18:11 authored by David E. BernholdtDavid E. Bernholdt
The primary mission of the IDEAS Productivity project is to help code teams supported by the U.S. Department of Energy to improve their software development practices in order to improve scientific productivity and produce software that is more sustainable. But we’re not a large project, and DOE comprises many code teams; moreover, these concerns resonate with projects throughout the broader computational science and engineering (CSE) community. Thus, we recognized from the start that we would benefit from extensive engagement with the CSE community to identify and tailor best practices for CSE software, including how best to assist CSE projects in implementing them. Consequently, the IDEAS project includes an extensive outreach component. We organize and deliver trainings and tutorials; we produce a monthly webinar series on Best Practices for HPC Software Developers; and we organize technical sessions at meetings like SIAM CSE19 to promote the discussion of experiences with software development and the exchange of ideas within the community. We have also recently spun out Better Scientific Software (https://BSSw.io) as a community-driven portal to share and find resources to improve CSE software development and experiences. This poster will provide more information about these activities and how they support our core mission while engaging with and giving back to the broader community.

A poster presented at the SIAM CSE19 conference, minisymposterium PP103: Software Productivity and Sustainability for CSE and Data Science.

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U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), and by 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

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