Introduction to the Research Software Engineering Summerschol

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www.simtech-summerschool.de

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Last minute organization issues

Benedikt has Corona since last week - he hopes to make it. He hopes to give this talk hybrid, but we’ll see!
Some words on what can be paid: All lunch + Food Mo + We + Bowling Entry+Shoes. No food/drinks on any other days unfortunately.

Structure of the summer school

Check out the schedule
In the beginning we will focus on the Research Software Engineering part.
Advanced Julia, later this week and by custom request. We hope we put enough slack time in!

Your teaching staff I

Your teaching Staff II

Introduction to Research Software Engineering

Starting Points

DORA declaration in 2012: reshape how research impact should be assessed underlining importance of software

For the purposes of research assessment, consider the value and impact of all research outputs (including datasets and software) in addition to research publications …

UK survey in 2014: 7 out of 10 researchers could not conduct research without software.
DFG funding calls on research software sustainability in 2016 & 2019 & 2023
Nationale Forschungsdaten Infrastruktur, NFDI since 2020
BUT Lack of careers for software developers in academia
BUT Lack of reproducibility of research that uses software (“works for me on my machine” vs. “works for everyone everywhere”)

RSE Movement

… academic software developers needed a name: Research Software Engineers

UK Society of RSE:

A Research Software Engineer (RSE) combines professional software engineering expertise with an intimate understanding of research.

“Movement” started in the UK, first UK RSE conference in 2016
First conferences in Germany and the Netherlands in 2019
de-RSE position paper in 2020
Second Thursday of October is the International RSE Day
Why be an RSE? Interesting and novel projects, technical freedom, RSEs come from varied backgrounds, development for social good

Do I need this in Industry?

Yes. Research also happens in industry.
All RSE things we learn (Git, packaging, CI/CD, virtualization, documentation, …) is also highly relevant for non-research software.
Companies use (more and more) the same workflows and tools.
- It is not just about coding. It is about collaborative work.
Open-source development excellent door opener for industry.
Some companies use open-source software and need to make contributions.
Some companies develop their software as open-source software.

Why RSE+Julia?

RSE is comparatively easy in Julia
Julia resolves 2-language problem: “normalish” Scientists can write¹ fast tools
Hendrik will dive into details

Footnotes

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