This event is a part of the "Best Practices for HPC Software Developers" webinar series, produced by the IDEAS Productivity Project. The HPC Best Practices webinars address issues faced by developers of computational science and engineering (CSE) software on high-performance computers (HPC) and occur approximately monthly.
| Resource Information | Details |
|---|---|
| Webinar Title | Software Engineering Challenges and Best Practices for Multi-Institutional Scientific Software Development |
| Date and Time | 2021-08-04 01:00 pm EDT |
| Presenter | Keith Beattie (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) |
| Registration, Information, and Archives | https://ideas-productivity.org/resources/series/hpc-best-practices-webinars/#webinar055 |
Webinars are free and open to the public, but advance registration is required through the Event website. Archives (recording, slides, Q&A) will be posted at the same link soon after the event.
Abstract
Scientific software is increasingly becoming the backbone of obtaining and validating scientific results. This is no longer just the case for traditionally computationally intensive areas but is now true across a wide variety of scientific disciplines. This circumstance elevates how scientific software is developed, independent of the field, to a new level of importance. Further, the multi-institutional nature of many science projects presents unique challenges to how scientific software can be effectively developed and maintained over the long term. In this webinar we present the challenges faced in leading the development of scientific software across a distributed, multi-institutional team of contributors, and we describe a set of best-practices we have found to be effective in producing impactful and trustworthy scientific software.
Presenter Bio
Keith Beattie is a computer systems engineer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) with experience in bringing modern, open-source software engineering practices to academic and research contexts. His interests are in understanding and addressing the unique challenges in leading multi-institutional, geographically dispersed scientific software development teams while still producing effective and usable software, particularly teams composed of members from scientific but not necessarily software engineering backgrounds. He has worked in industry as a software engineer and release manager and has been at LBNL for the past 20 years. He also tortures local music venue attendees playing bass in rock bands.
