The goal of this workshop is to bring together community leaders and practitioners in scientific software from academia, industry and labs for the purpose of identifying the challenges and priority research direction for improving developer productivity for scientific software. We want to explore, characterize and articulate scientific software practices from industry, research labs and academia and identify common requirements and essential differences in these communities.

We believe this workshop to be distinct in its efforts to bring academic, industry and lab community members to explore both the common and unique challenges of these communities.

The first day, July 21, will focus on productivity definitions and challenges; the second day on technical strategies for improvement; the third on cultural approaches for improvement.

Artifacts from the workshop will include submitted white papers, recorded presentations, live panels and discussions, recordings of live sessions and blog articles from selected workshop contributions. We hope these artifacts will advance community progress in developer productivity for scientific software, especially toward better usability across industry, lab and academic institutions. We anticipate that the diverse experience of the workshop attendees will lead to a deeper awareness and understanding of how the represented communities can benefit from collaboration, coordination and complementarity.

Organizers

• Mike Heroux (Sandia National Laboratories and St. John’s University)
• Wolfgang Bangerth (Colorado State University)
• Eric Bavier (Cray, Inc.)
• Vadim Dyadechko (ExxonMobil Corporation)
• Jacob Hemstad (Nvidia Corp.)
• Daniel S. Katz (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
• Sarah Knepper (Intel Corp.)
• Lois Curfman McInnes (Argonne National Laboratory)
• Pat Quillen (MathWorks, Inc.)
• Siva Rajamanickam (Sandia National Laboratories)
• Elaine Raybourn (Sandia National Laboratories)
• James Willenbring (Sandia National Laboratories)