SSI: The UK Software Sustainability Institute

SSI：英国软件可持续性研究所

• 批准号: EP/H043160/1
• 负责人: Neil Chue Hong
• 金额: $ 559.33万
• 依托单位: University of Edinburgh
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2010 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FH043160%2F1
• 关键词: SSI; UK; Software; Sustainability; Institute

This proposal seeks to gain support for the next five years for the UK Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) that will work in partnership with research communities to identify key software that needs to be sustained.Researchers today from many different disciplines rely on software to carry out high quality research. This software must be able to serve the changing needs of the researcher to remain relevant. It must be able to change, adapt, and travel with the researcher on the journey of exploration, innovation and discovery which embodies leading research.Software sustainability is the key to this journey; it is essential that software used in research is managed beyond the lifetime of its original funding cycle, and strengthened, adapted and customised for adoption by researchers within the founding community and outside, in other communities to create a impact which can be transferred to future generations of researchers.The sustainability of important research software requires partnership. Only through close collaboration between software developers and scientists can advances be made both in software development and domain sciences. This is not a radical view. One of the most successful aspects of Agile development methodologies is a focus on ongoing interactions between developers and customers: business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project. The benefits of Agile methods for scientific software development are greater than for business software; and our experiences through our work as OMII-UK underline this emphatically. Through programmes such as ENGAGE and eDIKT2 we have worked in partnership with researchers to improve their software. As each community's requirements are different, the system we have developed is well suited to communities and software of varying maturity: one size does not fit all. We propose a Software Sustainability Institute for the UK which will establish a national focal point - a facility for research software users and developers - based around specialist software engineering skills for driving the continued improvement and impact of research software, using as its foundation the concept of Practical Peer Partnerships: bringing together key research groups within the UK with the skilled team members from our consortium to deliver a series of genuine partnerships focused on the improvement of vital research software through consultative advice, such as test design or help with development tools; collaborative partnerships, e.g. by helping with code refactoring; and long-term engagement, for cultivating the relationships which grow communities and harness the momentum of other activities. This will build on the partners existing connections to many different research communities, and to infrastructure initiatives such as the NGS, EGI, NESSI and PRACE.Our approach will ensure that software used in research is managed beyond the lifetime of its original funding cycle: it will be strengthened, adapted and customised for adoption by researchers, within the founding community and elsewhere, to create an impact which can be built on by future generations of researchers - ultimately to deliver new high quality research.

该提案旨在为英国软件可持续发展研究所（SSI）提供支持，该研究将与研究社区合作，以确定需要维持的关键软件。高质量的研究。该软件必须能够满足研究人员不断变化的需求，以保持相关性。它必须能够与研究人员进行改变，适应和旅行，以体现领先的研究的探索，创新和发现的旅程。软件可持续性是这一旅程的关键。至关重要的是，在其原始资金周期的生命周期之外，必须对研究中使用的软件进行管理，并在创始社区和外部，在其他社区中加强，改编和定制，以供研究人员收养，以造成可以转移到子孙后代的影响研究人员的可持续性需要伙伴关系。只有通过软件开发人员和科学家之间的密切合作才能在软件开发和领域科学领域进行进步。这不是激进的观点。敏捷开发方法的最成功的方面之一是关注开发人员与客户之间正在进行的互动：商业人员和开发人员必须每天在整个项目中共同努力。敏捷方法对科学软件开发的好处大于商业软件。以及我们作为OMII-UK的工作的经验强调了这一点。通过参与和EDIKT2之类的计划，我们与研究人员合作，以改善其软件。由于每个社区的要求都不同，我们开发的系统非常适合社区和不同成熟度的软件：一个尺寸并不适合所有人。我们为英国提供了一个软件可持续性研究所，该研究所将建立一个国家焦点 - 研究软件用户和开发人员的设施 - 基于专业软件工程技能，以推动研究软件的持续改进和影响，以此作为其基础实用的同伴合作伙伴关系：将英国的主要研究小组与我们财团的熟练团队成员组合在一起，以通过咨询建议（例如测试设计或开发工具帮助）来提供一系列真正的合作伙伴关系，以改善重要的研究软件；合作伙伴关系，例如通过帮助代码重构；以及长期参与，以培养建立社区和利用其他活动的势头的关系。这将建立在与许多不同研究社区的合作伙伴之间的建立，以及与NGS，EGI，NESSI和PRACE等基础设施计划。研究人员将在创始社区和其他地方进行加强，改编和定制，以供研究人员采用，以创造一种影响，该影响可以由后代研究人员建立，最终提供了新的高质量研究。

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