Report on the Third Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE3)

Authors

  • Daniel S. Katz National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) & Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department & School of Information Sciences (iSchool), University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5934-7525
  • Sou-Cheng T. Choi NORC at the University of Chicago and Illinois Institute of Technology https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4270-7077
  • Kyle E. Niemeyer School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering, Oregon State University
  • James Hetherington Research Software Development Group, University College London
  • Frank Löffler Center for Computation & Technology, Louisiana State University
  • Dan Gunter Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Ray Idaszak RENCI, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Steven R. Brandt Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Mark A. Miller University of California, San Diego
  • Sandra Gessing Center for Research Computing, University of Notre Dame
  • Nick D. Jones New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI), University of Auckland
  • Nic Weber University of Washington
  • Suresh Marru Indiana University
  • Gabrielle Allen National Center for Supercomputing Applications & Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Birgit Penzenstadler College of Computer Engineering & Computer Science, California State University
  • Colin C. Venters School of Computing and Engineering, University of Huddersfield
  • Ethan Davis UCAR Unidata
  • Lorraine Hwang University of California, Davis
  • Ilian Todorov Science & Technology Facilities Council
  • Abani Patra Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo
  • Miguel de Val-Borro Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.118

Abstract

This report records and discusses the Third Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE3). The report includes a description of the keynote presentation of the workshop, which served as an overview of sustainable scientific software. It also summarizes a set of lightning talks in which speakers highlighted to-the-point lessons and challenges pertaining to sustaining scientific software. The final and main contribution of the report is a summary of the discussions, future steps, and future organization for a set of self-organized working groups on topics including developing pathways to funding scientific software; constructing useful common metrics for crediting software stakeholders; identifying principles for sustainable software engineering design; reaching out to research software organizations around the world; and building communities for software sustainability. For each group, we include a point of contact and a landing page that can be used by those who want to join that group’s future activities. The main challenge left by the workshop is to see if the groups will execute these activities that they have scheduled, and how the WSSSPE community can encourage this to happen.

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Published

2016-10-21

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2016)

Section

Issues in Research Software

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