Fwd: [WSSSPE] CFP: 2nd Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE2)
by Matthew Turk
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From: Daniel S. Katz <dsk(a)uchicago.edu>
Date: Tue, May 13, 2014 at 1:52 PM
Subject: [WSSSPE] CFP: 2nd Workshop on Sustainable Software for
Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE2)
To: "Working on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and
Experience" <wssspe(a)lists.researchcomputing.org.uk>
2nd Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and
Experiences (WSSSPE2)
http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/wssspe2/
(to be held in conjunction with SC14, Sunday, 16 November 2014, New
Orleans, LA, USA)
Progress in scientific research is dependent on the quality and
accessibility of software at all levels and it is critical to address
challenges related to the development, deployment, and maintenance of
reusable software as well as education around software practices.
These challenges can be technological, policy based, organizational,
and educational, and are of interest to developers (the software
community), users (science disciplines), and researchers studying the
conduct of science (science of team science, science of organizations,
science of science and innovation policy, and social science
communities).
The WSSSPE1 workshop (http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/WSSSPE1)
engaged the broad scientific community to identify challenges and best
practices in areas of interest for sustainable scientific software. At
WSSSPE2, we invite the community to propose and discuss specific
mechanisms to move towards an imagined future practice of software
development and usage in science and engineering. The workshop will
include multiple mechanisms for participation, encourage team building
around solutions, and identify risky solutions with potentially
transformative outcomes. Participation by early career students and
postdoctoral researchers is strongly encouraged.
We invite short (4-page) actionable papers that will lead to
improvements for sustainable software science. These papers could be a
call to action, or could provide position or experience reports on
sustainable software activities. The papers will be used by the
organizing committee to design sessions that will be highly
interactive and targeted towards facilitating action. Submitted papers
should be archived by a third-party service that provides DOIs. We
encourage submitters to license their papers under a Creative Commons
license that encourages sharing and remixing, as we will combine ideas
(with attribution) into the outcomes of the workshop.
The organizers will invite one or more submitters of provocative
papers to start the workshop by presenting highlights of their papers
in a keynote presentation to initiate active discussion that will
continue throughout the day.
Areas of interest for WSSSPE2, include, but are not limited to:
• defining software sustainability in the context of science and
engineering software
• how to evaluate software sustainability
• improving the development process that leads to new software
• methods to develop sustainable software from the outset
• effective approaches to reusable software created as a by-product of research
• impact of computer science research on the development of scientific software
• recommendations for the support and maintenance of existing software
• software engineering best practices
• governance, business, and sustainability models
• the role of community software repositories, their operation and
sustainability
• reproducibility, transparency needs that may be unique to science
• successful open source software implementations
• incentives for using and contributing to open source software
• transitioning users into contributing developers
• building large and engaged user communities
• developing strong advocates
• measurement of usage and impact
• encouraging industry’s role in sustainability
• engagement of industry with volunteer communities
• incentives for industry
• incentives for community to contribute to industry-driven projects
• recommending policy changes
• software credit, attribution, incentive, and reward
• issues related to multiple organizations and multiple countries,
such as intellectual property, licensing, etc.
• mechanisms and venues for publishing software, and the role of publishers
• improving education and training
• best practices for providing graduate students and postdoctoral
researchers in domain communities with sufficient training in software
development
• novel uses of sustainable software in education (K-20)
• case studies from students on issues around software development in
the undergraduate or graduate curricula
• careers and profession
• successful examples of career paths for developers
• institutional changes to support sustainable software such as
promotion and tenure metrics, job categories, etc.
Submissions:
Submissions of up to four pages should be formatted to be easily
readable and submitted to an open access repository that provides
unique identifiers (e.g., DOIs) that can be cited, for example
http://arXiv.org or http://figshare.com.
Once you have received an identifier for your self-published paper
from a repository, submit it to WSSSPE2 by creating a new submission
at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wssspe2, and entering:
• author information for all authors
• title
• abstract (with the identifier as the first line of the abstract, for
example, http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.791606 or
http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.7414 or alternative)
• at least three keywords
• tick the abstract only box
Do not submit the paper itself through EasyChair; the identifier in
the abstract that points to the paper is sufficient.
Deadline for Submission:
14 July 2014 (any time of day, no extensions)
Travel Support
Funds are available to support participation in WSSSPE2 by 1) US-based
students, early-career researchers, and members of underrepresented
groups; and 2) participants who would not otherwise attend the SC14
conference. Priority will be given to those who have submitted papers
and can make a compelling case for how their participation will
strengthen the overall workshop and/or positively impact their future
research or educational activities.
Submissions for travel support will be accepted from September 1st to
September 15th 2014 following instructions posted on the workshop web
site.
Financial support to enable this has been generously provided by 1)
the National Science Foundation and 2) the Gordon and Betty Moore
Foundation.
Important Dates:
July 14, 2014 Paper submission deadline
September 1, 2014 Author notification
September 15, 2014 Funding request submission deadline
September 22, 2014 Funding decision notification
November 16, 2014 WSSSPE2 Workshop
Organizers:
• Daniel S. Katz, d.katz(a)ieee.org, National Science Foundation, USA
• Gabrielle Allen, gdallen(a)illinois.edu, University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Neil Chue Hong, N.ChueHong(a)software.ac.uk, Software Sustainability
Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Karen Cranston, karen.cranston(a)nescent.org, National Evolutionary
Synthesis Center (NESCent), USA
• Manish Parashar, parashar(a)rutgers.edu, Rutgers University, USA
• David Proctor, djproctor(a)gmail.com, National Science Foundation, USA
• Matthew Turk, matthewturk(a)gmail.com, Columbia University, USA
• Colin C. Venters, colin.venters(a)googlemail.com, University of Huddersfield, UK
• Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, wilkinsn(a)sdsc.edu, San Diego Supercomputer
Center, University of California, San Diego, USA
Program Committee:
• Aron Ahmadia, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, USA
• Liz Allen, Wellcome Trust, UK
• Lorena A. Barba, The George Washington University, USA
• C. Titus Brown, Michigan State University, USA
• Coral Calero, Universidad Castilla La Mancha, Spain
• Jeffrey Carver, University of Alabama, USA
• Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California, USA
• Gabriel A. Devenyi, McMaster University, Canada
• Charlie E. Dibsdale, O-Sys, Rolls Royce PLC, UK
• Alberto Di Meglio, CERN, Switzerland
• Anshu Dubey, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
• David Gavaghan, University of Oxford, UK
• Paul Ginsparg, Cornell University, USA
• Josh Greenberg, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, USA
• Sarah Harris, University of Leeds, UK
• James Herbsleb, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• James Howison, University of Texas at Austin, USA
• Caroline Jay, University of Manchester, UK
• Matthew B. Jones, National Center for Ecological Analysis and
Synthesis (NCEAS), University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
• Jong-Suk Ruth Lee, National Institute of Supercomputing and
Networking, KISTI (Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Information), Korea
• James Lin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
• Frank Löffler, Louisiana State University, USA
• Chris A. Mattmann, NASA JPL & University of Southern California, USA
• Robert H. McDonald, Indiana University, USA
• Lois Curfman McInnes, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
• Chris Mentzel, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, USA
• Kenneth M. Merz, Jr., Michigan State University, USA
• Marek T. Michalewicz, A*STAR Computational Resource Centre, Singapore
• Peter E. Murray, LYRASIS, USA
• Kenjo Nakajima, University of Tokyo, Japan
• Cameron Neylon, PLOS, UK
• Aleksandra Pawlik, Software Sustainability Institute, Manchester
University, UK
• Birgit Penzenstadler, University of California, Irvine, USA
• Marian Petre, The Open University, UK
• Mark D. Plumbley, Queen Mary University of London, UK
• Andreas Prlic, University of California, San Diego, USA
• Victoria Stodden, Columbia University, USA
• Kaitlin Thaney, Mozilla Science Lab, USA
• Greg Watson, IBM, USA
• Theresa Windus, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory, USA
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4 years, 8 months
io chunks in yt-3.0
by Britton Smith
Hey all,
I'm working on changing how HaloCatalog objects loop over halos from a
model where every processor has to hold the entire halo list to a model in
which we loop over "io" chunks. This will make the HaloCatalog scale much
better to extremely large catalogs. My understanding was that an "io"
chunk was essentially one file on disk. However, when I try to get io
chunks from any one of the various halo catalog frontends, there seems to
only ever be a single chunk that contains everything, regardless of how
many files on disk the data is spread over. Is there a way to change this
so that an io chunk represents the data from a single file?
Britton
4 years, 8 months
Fwd: [astropy-dev] Lorentz Center Workshop on "Python in Astronomy"
by Matthew Turk
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From: Thomas Robitaille <thomas.robitaille(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, May 8, 2014 at 7:45 AM
Subject: [astropy-dev] Lorentz Center Workshop on "Python in Astronomy"
To: astropy-dev <astropy-dev(a)googlegroups.com>, astropy <astropy(a)scipy.org>
Hi everyone,
Back in December last year I forwarded a call for proposals for
workshops at the Lorentz center to this list, and a few of us
subsequently put in an application to hold a Python Astronomy
workshop.
We are now very happy to report that a "Python in Astronomy" workshop
has been accepted and will take place at the Lorentz center in Leiden
on 20-24 April 2015. This workshop aims to bring together researchers,
Python developers, users, and educators, and will include
presentations, tutorials, unconference sessions, and coding sprints.
In addition to sharing information about the state-of-the art of
Python Astronomy packages, the workshop will also focus on improving
interoperability between astronomical Python packages, providing
training for new contributors, and developing a common set of
educational materials for Python in Astronomy. The meeting is
therefore not only aimed at current developers, but also users and
educators.
A formal website and announcement will come later this year, but we
wanted to share this with you now so that you can keep the dates free
if you are interested in participating. In the mean time, you can
already sign up to receive future announcements about the workshop at
the following page:
http://python-in-astronomy.github.io
Please feel free to spread the word to others that this is happening
and get them to sign up to the announcement list.
We are very excited about the opportunity to hold this workshop, and
we hope to see many of you there!
The organizing committee:
Thomas Robitaille
Pauline Barmby
Eric Jeschke
Stuart Mumford
Magnus Persson
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4 years, 8 months
_determine_fields
by Britton Smith
Hi all,
I've been discussing with Hilary the best way to allow ProfilePlot to work
with profile data loaded from disk. It seems it would be easy enough to
make a Profile object from loaded data, but the holdup is that there are a
number of calls to data_source._determine_fields for simple things like
checking if a field is log or linear.
I had a look at this function, which hangs off of YTDataContainer, and
noticed that it doesn't seem to really need the data container itself. I'm
thinking that this function could be moved to instead hang off of the
Dataset object without a problem. If so, then ProfilePlot could much more
easily be extended to work with data from disk, since you could also supply
None for the data_source.
Does anyone see a problem with doing this?
Britton
4 years, 8 months
Strange behavior on SlicePlots with Chombo data in yt-3.0
by Andrew Myers
Hi Folks,
I'm seeing a strange issue with Chombo data in yt-3.0. This is before any
recent changes I made refactoring the frontend. Attached are two images of
the same slice through the same dataset, one with yt-3.0 and one with
yt-2.6. The image looks fine in yt-2.6, but there are clearly artifacts at
the level boundaries for yt-3.0. What's strange is that, if I loop over all
the grids and dump out the density, I get *exactly* the same answers for
3.0 and 2.6. It's almost like there is some kind of additive blending thing
going on for the 3.0 slice plots, though.
I'm a bit at a loss for where to look for this. Has anyone seen something
like this before?
Thanks,
Andrew
4 years, 8 months
Issue #840: yt.analysis_modules.level_sets.api.find_clumps raises NotImplementedError (yt_analysis/yt)
by Stuart Mumford
New issue 840: yt.analysis_modules.level_sets.api.find_clumps raises NotImplementedError
https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/issue/840/ytanalysis_moduleslevel_se...
Stuart Mumford:
running `find_clumps.py` from the cook book raises the following error:
```
#!python
Finding clumps: min: 1.000000e-28, max: 1.000000e-23, step: 2.000000
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/stuart/BitBucket/yt/doc/source/cookbook/find_clumps.py", line 40, in <module>
find_clumps(master_clump, c_min, c_max, step)
File "/home/stuart/BitBucket/yt/yt/analysis_modules/level_sets/clump_handling.py", line 171, in find_clumps
clump.find_children(min_val)
File "/home/stuart/BitBucket/yt/yt/analysis_modules/level_sets/clump_handling.py", line 110, in find_children
nj, cids = identify_contours(self.data, self.field, min_val, max_val)
File "/home/stuart/BitBucket/yt/yt/analysis_modules/level_sets/contour_finder.py", line 36, in identify_contours
for (g, node, (sl, dims, gi)) in data_source.tiles.slice_traverse():
File "/home/stuart/BitBucket/yt/yt/utilities/amr_kdtree/amr_kdtree.py", line 189, in slice_traverse
raise NotImplementedError
NotImplementedError
```
4 years, 8 months
