Abstract
With the ever-increasing size of scientific collaborations and complexity of scientific instruments, the software needed to acquire, process and analyze the gathered data is increasing in both complexity and size. Unfortunately the role and career path of scientists and engineers working on software R&D and developing scientific software are neither clearly established nor defined in many fields of natural science. In addition, the exchange of information between scientific software development and computer science departments at universities or computing schools is scattered and fragmented into individual initiatives. To address the above issues we propose a new effort on a European level, which concentrates on strengthening the role of software developers in natural sciences, acts as a hub for the exchange of ideas among different stake-holders in computer science and scientific software and forms a lobbying forum for software engineering in natural sciences on an international level. This contribution discusses in detail the motivation, role and interplay with other initiatives of a “Software Institute for Data-Intensive Sciences”, which is currently being discussed between research institutes, universities and funding agencies in Europe. In addition to the current status, an outlook on future prospects of this initiative will be given.
Highlights
We discuss a new idea of a "Software Institute for Data-Intensive Sciences" [1, 2] to connect software and computing activities in natural sciences with academia, such as university institutes and engineering schools concentrating on fundamental research in those fields
This paper proposes to set up a structure to establish interaction on computer science and software engineering in natural sciences and academic institutions, such as computer science departments or software engineering schools, in the form of an institute for scientific software in data-intensive sciences, described in a one-page statement [1]
E.g. it can collaborate with CERN openlab in the context of a scientific / industrial partnership, it can collaborate with IRIS-HEP on a geographical level in a US / European partnership and work with the HEP Software Foundation (HSF) and Wide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) to receive ideas of current problems in high energy physics software and computing
Summary
We discuss a new idea of a "Software Institute for Data-Intensive Sciences" [1, 2] to connect software and computing activities in natural sciences with academia, such as university institutes and engineering schools concentrating on fundamental research in those fields. A summary in Section 5 concludes this paper. The scope of the institute shall span over all areas of natural science and computing
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