AFRD modeling and simulation meeting – 09/09/2013Introduction - J.-L. Vay

Snowmass CSS 2013 – Computing Frontier: accelerator science

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12113/nsf12113.pdfSoftware needs to transition from a set of individual research projects to a production infrastructure.

…and recognizing that the complexity of software has historically been underappreciated.

The NSF vision is to facilitate software infrastructure that works easily at scale, encourages reuse, and efficiently promotes innovation while retaining reliability.

High-level abstractions and frameworks that promote code reuse and sharing, model extensibility and interoperability, and simplify domain specific programming while achieving high performance.

Understanding issues that prevent reuse; and incentivizing reuse in the development process.

Widespread adoption of open source modelsfor software development and disseminationthat include high quality documentation andaccepted engineering practices, leading tosoftware that is accessible, understandable andreusable.