SI2 Meeting 2015

SI2 Meeting Notes: Feb 17-18, 2015 Arlington VA

CyberGIS - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Discussed building a GIS interface to CyberShake data, but we need to build a rest-based interface to the CyberShake DB first:
• CyberGIS

Group discussions recommended all projects make your code citable.

• GitHub has advice on the subject:
• Citable Code

The plenary was from the yt-project.org software

• YT Vis project

Stan Ahalt mentioned his presentation on forming a Water Resources Institute

• Water Resource Institute Talk

Group mentioned a site called hackershool.com

• Hackerschool site

UK version of SI2:

• WSSSPE Site

Discussion about the ASF, which is the Accelerating Studies foundation:

• ASF Web Site

Discussed projects for tracking software or tracking scientific data especially with RDF called myexperiment

• MyExperiment

Learned about the mechanical turk on amazon, apparently site for software help:

• Mechanical Turk Site

Discussed Models of sustainability including HDF5 group and ICERM

• ICERM
• HDF5 Group

Suggested book of Software Sustainability:

• Blue Ocean Strategies

Discussion of Diffusion of Innovations:

• Diffusion of Innovations

Speaker used these sites to track his/her impact:

• OpenHub
• Sciencetoolbox

NSF person suggested community needed to:

1. Define a reference architecture for scientific computing, and
2. Identify the key components, and
3. Converge (or reduce the options) on solutions for each component

Architecture might include MPI Libs, IO Libs, schedulers, and workflow tools.

SI2 PI Meeting 2013

• Taborda SI2 Meeting Summary - 2013

Related Entries

• CME Project
• SEISM Project