TY - GEN
T1 - Scaling a code in the human dimension
AU - Turk, Matthew J.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2013 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - As scientists' needs for computational techniques and tools grow, they cease to be supportable by software developed in isolation. In many cases, these needs are being met by communities of practice, where software is developed by domain scientists to reach pragmatic goals and satisfy distinct and enumerable scientific goals. yt is a visualization and analysis toolkit built around physically-motivated in- quiry of astrophysical data, deployed widely across XSEDE systems. Enzo is an adaptive mesh refinement platform for astrophysical simulations. We present techniques that have been successful in growing and engaging communities of practice, specifically in the yt and Enzo communities, and suggest that their successful application in the relatively small computational astrophysics community be viewed as a testbed for wider deployment in the computational science and XSEDE communities.
AB - As scientists' needs for computational techniques and tools grow, they cease to be supportable by software developed in isolation. In many cases, these needs are being met by communities of practice, where software is developed by domain scientists to reach pragmatic goals and satisfy distinct and enumerable scientific goals. yt is a visualization and analysis toolkit built around physically-motivated in- quiry of astrophysical data, deployed widely across XSEDE systems. Enzo is an adaptive mesh refinement platform for astrophysical simulations. We present techniques that have been successful in growing and engaging communities of practice, specifically in the yt and Enzo communities, and suggest that their successful application in the relatively small computational astrophysics community be viewed as a testbed for wider deployment in the computational science and XSEDE communities.
KW - Community
KW - Open source
KW - XSEDE proceedings
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U2 - 10.1145/2484762.2484782
DO - 10.1145/2484762.2484782
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84882406815
SN - 9781450321709
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
BT - Proceedings of the XSEDE 2013 Conference
T2 - Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, XSEDE 2013
Y2 - 22 July 2013 through 25 July 2013
ER -