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1 Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk SSI in one slide

2 Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk The Software Sustainability Institute A national facility for building better software Better software enables better research Software reaches boundaries in its development cycle that prevent improvement, growth and adoption Providing the expertise and services needed to negotiate to the next stage Software reviews and refactoring, collaborations to develop your project, guidance and best practice on software development, project management, training, community building, publicity and more… info@software.ac.uk

3 Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk SSI in three slides

4 Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk The Software Sustainability Institute A national facility for building better software Better software enables better research Software reaches boundaries in its development cycle that prevent improvement, growth and adoption Providing the expertise and services needed to negotiate to the next stage Software reviews and refactoring, collaborations to develop your project, guidance and best practice on software development, project management, training, community building, publicity and more… info@software.ac.uk

5 Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk SSI: Long Term Goals Provision of useful, effective services for research software community  Transfer knowledge and skills to the community Development and sharing of research community knowledge, intelligence and interactions  Raise awareness, identify and address trends and issues Promotion of research software best practice  Change the culture and attitudes to software Mantra:  Keep the software in its respective community  Work with the community, to increase ability  Don’t introduce dependency on SSI as the developer  Expand and exploit networks and opportunities

6 Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk A National Facility for Research Software Become our next collaborators! Website: www.software.ac.uk Email: info@software.ac.uk Twitter: twitter.com/SoftwareSaved Some current collaborations

7 Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk Case studies, further information

8 Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk Case Study: Ligand Binding Centre for Computational Chemistry, Bristol  New methods for rapid MC sampling of biomolecular systems modelled using QM/MM  Developed two codes ProtoMS (F77) + Sire (C++)  Water-Swap Reaction Coordinate method to calculate absolute protein-ligand binding free energies SSI’s work is helping to scale development  ProtoMS and Sire both single developer codes  ASPIRE/ACQUIRE framework has multiple devs Split architecture between ASPIRE (adaptive multiresolution hybrid MD simulation) and ACQUIRE (WorkPacket scheduling system with optimisation for time to result vs “green-ness” http://www.siremol.org/adaptive_dynamics

9 Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk Case Study: Fusion Plasma Culham Centre for Fusion Energy  GS-2 used to study low-frequency turbulence in magnetized plasma  No common visualisation across different groups  Deliver mutually agreeable framework that can be extended easily and can be maintained by the small fusion community SSI’s work means the software can be used between groups  Simplified & enhanced plasma visualisation tool Based on ParaView o/s tool For simulations using GS-2 o/s package  Aim to allow CCFE to contribute back to GS-2 community  “I am very confident the tool will be invaluable” Colin Roach, CCFE http://www.software.ac.uk/who-do-we-work/culham-centre-fusion-energy http://www.ccfe.ac.uk/

10 Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk Case Study: Brain Imaging Brain Research Imaging Centre, Edinburgh  Develop PrivacyGuard software, a DICOM image deidentification toolkit  Created software to support new multispectral colouring modulation and variance identification technique (“MCMxxxVI”) to identify white matter lesions that are indicative of declining cognitive ability  BRIC are not principally software developers, but do provide software to other researchers SSI’s work means the software has been reviewed and refactored  Looked at exploitation Usability review, Naming/trademark review  Made it easier for BRIC staff to maintain and develop Move to standard repositories, testing and documentation processes Examination of licencing for MCMxxxVI Extraction and refactoring to create standalone tools http://www.software.ac.uk/who-do-we-work/brain-research-imaging-centre-edinburgh http://www.bric.ed.ac.uk/

11 Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk Case Study: SARoNGS UK NGS  Previous SARoNGS project aimed to provide a simple mechanism to obtain the security tokens required to access the National Grid Service.  This service uses the UK Access Management Federation to identify people using Shibboleth.  First in ongoing series of “NGS recommends…” SSI’s work means the software has been reviewed and issues corrected  Identified, fixed deep bugs in SARoNGS WMS It is now possible to run SARoNGS jobs successfully on NGS systems Though still needs NGS to roll out more widely…  “Happy with the report, using it to beat people now” David Wallom, OERC & NGS https://cts.ngs.ac.uk/

12 Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk Case Study: Climate Policy Modelling CIAS team at Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia  Develop linked climate and economic models for detailed analysis  Their software was not ready to be used by other groups One researcher/developer at UEA, several users SSI’s work means the software is robust enough that it can be installed and used by others  Enabled use of the software by the WWFN’s Climascope project and James Cook University Documented software to allow extensions by contributors Made it easier to maintain and backup Added job scheduling to improve modeling throughput New modelling framework enables new models i.e. new science http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/research/cias

13 Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk Case Study: textual studies TextVRE team at CeRCH, Kings College London  Developed an environment which is used to integrate various tools used in the e-Humanities textual studies lifecycle  Builds on the German TextGrid project, and many other existing tools SSI’s work means the software is can be run “out of the box” – an important requirement for the researchers  Developed a VM image containing the TextVRE installation Improve installation instructions Develop tests to check each installed component Improve modularisation to allow others to contribute and maintain  Feeding back work to TextGrid http://textvre.cerch.kcl.ac.uk

14 Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk Case Study: NeISS Evaluate impact of traffic control measures over next 5/10/15 years Access baseline demographic data about the city Execute simulation of traffic system and population Visualise simulation outputs Augment with new forms of data Run dynamic models to assess future patterns (congestion, health, social inequality)

15 Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk Case Study: NeISS 15

16 Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk Case Study: NeISS 16

17 Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk SSI Training Training on development practices for research teams  Particularly targeting early-career researchers (e.g. Centres for Doctoral Training) Partnering with NGS to deliver to summer schools  SeIUCCR, September 2011 Partnering with Software Carpentry and SoundSoftware  Co-coordinating 9 groups around UK involved in Software Carpentry bootcamps in May 2012  Advanced Workshop on Scientific Software Development: Concepts and Tools, Trieste, February 2012  Effective Scientific Programming, Newcastle, June 2011 Providing bespoke training

18 Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk SSI Guides Software development  Software development: general best practice  Ready for release?  Defending your code against dependency problems  Developing maintainable software  Writing readable source code  Testing your software  How to frustrate your users, annoy other developers and please lawyers  How do I figure out if this software is “good”? Project Management  Choosing the right open-source software for your project  Choosing project and product names Repositories  Choosing a repository for your software project  Migrating project resources: what to remember  Creating and managing SourceForge projects  Retrieving project resources from NeSCForge Open source  Adopting an open-source licence  Supporting open-source software Community building  Recruiting champions for your project  Recruiting student developers Publicising software  Creating videos for software projects

19 Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk SSI Briefing Papers

20 Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk SSI Blogs Main SSI Blog  Articles on software sustainability and related issues  Contributions from SSI Staff, SSI Agents, and Guest Contributors  New posts weekly, increasing as more contributors come on board Ask Steve  “Your software development questions answered”  More technical – focused at developers  One question per month Plenty suggested by community!

21 Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk SSI Workshops and Events Collaborations Workshop  3-4 March 2011, Edinburgh  21-22 March 2012, Oxford Software Sustainability Surgeries  Run on behalf of funders JISC Rapid Innovation ESRC Digital Social Research  Can also provide to universities Contributing to other events  UK All Hands Meeting  NGS Innovation Forum  Dev8D  SuperComputing  IEEE e-Science  Beyond Impact

22 Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk The Agents Network A group of “software-savvy” researchers from all disciplines Agents connect their research discipline to the Institute Provide conference intelligence and more  In return for travel expenses and career progression opportunities http://www.software.ac.uk/agents

23 Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk The Agents Network Agents from chemistry, energy, biomechanics, molecular sequencing, coastal engineering, medicine, semantic web, software development, environmental change, glacial geomorphology, bioinformatics Conference Intelligence reports:  3D Body Scanning Technologies  Terra Cognita and International Semantic Web Conference  Wellcome Trust Conference on Genome Informatics  Digital Engagement  ATLAS.ti workshop We also use them as sounding boards for new ideas

24 Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk SSI Website

25 Software Sustainability Institute www.software.ac.uk Collaborations Building new research collaborations 21-22 March 2012, Oxford Workshop

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