End of Life Plans for Software

CW21 - 2021-03-30 Felix - CI6-CW21 Participants Eli Chadwick Iain Barrass Alice Minotto Yo Yehudi Context / Research Domain Planning for continuation of dissemination of research outputs is an established part of a research grant application. We frequently see requests for ongoing costs for website hosting, placement of datasets in repositories or hosting of developed code in an online version control system. However, it is less frequent that considerations are made of ongoing technical staff attention to support staff responsible for code sustainability, maintanence, or data updates....

3 min · 477 words · Eli Chadwick, Iain Barrass, Alice Minotto, Yo Yehudi

Squashing conceptual bugs when computational bugs have been exterminated

CW22 - 2022-04-04 Collaborative Ideas session group: C-Clover Participants Aman Goel, University of Delhi, aman.goel185@gmail.com Juncheng E, European XFEL, juncheng.e@xfel.eu Iain Barrass, Queen Mary University of London, i.barrass@qmul.ac.uk Jesper Dramsch, ECMWF, jesper@dramsch.net Eli Chadwick, STFC, eli.chadwick@stfc.ac.uk Jiada Tu, Durham University, jiada.tu@durham.ac.uk Group photo Collaborative Idea Title Squashing conceptual bugs when computational bugs have been exterminated Context / Research Domain In physics the theory behind the code is as complex as writing the code itself....

4 min · 760 words · Aman Goel, Juncheng E, Iain Barrass, Jesper Dramsch, Eli Chadwick, Jiada Tu

State of the Art

CW20 - 2020-03-31 to 2020-04-02 Idea 1 - CI1-CW20 - ‘State-of-the-Art’ Participants Dan Hobley Paddy McCann Emily Bell (chair) Jonathan Frawley (scribe) Reka Solymosi Iain Barrass Context / Research Domain Meta-research: the context is a user doing a literature review for any research software project (‘scientometrics’). We’re going to focus our proof-of-concept on speech to text research. Problem When starting a project on a topic outside current expertise, it can be difficult and time-consuming to ascertain the current state-of-the-art in terms of tools and techniques....

4 min · 788 words · Dan Hobley, Paddy McCann, Emily Bell, Jonathan Frawley, Reka Solymosi, Iain Barrass