{"id":1256,"date":"2016-10-28T19:38:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T19:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/collaboration-yields-open-source-technology-for-computational-science.html"},"modified":"2016-10-28T19:38:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T19:38:11","slug":"collaboration-yields-open-source-technology-for-computational-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/collaboration-yields-open-source-technology-for-computational-science.html","title":{"rendered":"Collaboration yields open source technology for computational science"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n The Eclipse Integrated Computational Environment (ICE) is a scientific workbench and workflow environment developed to improve the user experience for computational scientists. Credit: ORNL
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The gap between the computational science and open source software communities just got smaller – thanks to an international collaboration among national laboratories, universities and industry.\n <\/p>\n


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The Eclipse Science Working Group (SWG), a global community for individuals and organizations who collaborate on commercially-friendly open source software<\/a>, recently released five projects aimed at expediting scientific breakthroughs by simplifying and streamlining computational science workflows.<\/p>\n

While computational science has made a great impact across the scientific spectrum, from climate change to astrophysics to genomics, today’s data-centric simulation environments require enhanced analysis, visualization, and workflow management to further reduce time to solution and increase the frequency of research breakthroughs. Hence Eclipse’s software release.<\/p>\n

“Oak Ridge National Laboratory is renowned for its hardware\u2014like Titan, the world’s third fastest supercomputer\u2014but we are also leaders in scientific software development,” said Jay Billings, the SWG Chair and a research scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. “The Science Working Group has not only helped us create software to simplify complex computational science<\/a> but it has also allowed us to become a part of a thriving community that focuses on collaboration, interoperability, and cutting edge research.”<\/p>\n

That community extends far beyond Oak Ridge into the wider national laboratory complex.<\/p>\n

“The Eclipse Science Working Group provides an open, international forum for design and development of critical components of scientific software, bringing together a diverse set of application requirements drivers and software architects to address the challenges of next-generation scientific computing,” said Robert Clay of Sandia National Laboratory.<\/p>\n

Likewise, small businesses are also engaged as either members of the group or consumers of its software. Dr. Gerald Sabin from RNET Technologies, Inc., a Dayton Ohio-area firm focused on high-performance computing research noted: “The ICE workflow environment is an ideal platform for us to develop a cutting-edge, cloud-based collaboration environment to support scientific computing. The licensing model and openness of the Science Working Group is to our advantage.”<\/p>\n

The open source projects, which represent years of development and thousands of users, are the product of intense collaboration among SWG members including ORNL, Diamond Light Source, Itema AS, iSencia, Kichwa Coders, Lablicate GmbH and others. The five projects are:<\/p>\n