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event_url: https://mde-network.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Call-for-EOI-workshop-Research-Software.pdf
- summary: Cambridge RSE Seminar - Code Execution during peer review with CODECHECK - Daniel Nust
description: |
Data and software are the foundation for a vast variety and volume of computational
research in all scientific disciplines. This is how we make sense of small and huge
datasets using everything from one-off scripts to high-performance computing
infrastructures. Nowadays, most of these works are eventually presented to a
scientific community in form of a paper for the recognition of research outputs and
career advancement. Research papers are increasingly accompanied by data and
software to ensure transparency, reproducibility, and reusability. This change
is driven by shifting community practice as well as by publisher guidelines.
However, the actual inspection of these building blocks is not a common part
of the publication and peer review process. The CODECHECK initiative tries to make
code execution standard practice in peer review using a particular focus and a set
of principles. We present variants of CODECHECK and highlight the possibilities
for research software engineers to participate in academic peer review as codecheckers.
Furthermore, we demonstrate the AGILE conference’s Reproducibility Review as a
concrete implementation of CODECHECK . The Reproducible AGILE initiative
demonstrates how good scientific and development practices can be encouraged
and spread through communication and collaboration.
Daniel is a research software engineer and postdoc at the Chair of Geoinformatics,
TU Dresden, Germany. He develops tools for open and reproducible geoscientific
research and is a proponent for open scholarship and reproducibility in the projects
NFDI4 Earth (<https://nfdi4earth.de/>), OPTIMETA (<https://projects.tib.eu/optimeta>), and CODECHECK (<https://codecheck.org.uk/>).
location: West Cambridge and online via Zoom
begin: 2023-10-19 13:00:00
duration: { hours: 1 }
event_url: "https://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/69831"
- summary: "Cambridge RSE Seminar - Fortran 77: It's really C with none of the safeguards - Simon Clifford"
description: |
Fortran was summoned by IBM ’s warlocks nearly 70 years ago. So should we still be
interested in this crusty old programming language?
Come with crusty old Simon as he opens the vault and delves into some
distinctly not-modern Fortran.
GASP as we use pointers in a language that doesn’t have pointers.
THRILL as we cast between types without knowing we’re doing it.
GROAN as we make whitespace important years before Python thought of it.
location: West Cambridge and online via Zoom
begin: 2023-10-26 13:00:00
duration: { hours: 1 }
event_url: "https://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/69831"
- summary: Cambridge RSE Seminar - Widening Participation in the R Project - Heather Turner
description: |
The R Project is over 20 years old, but its future is not secure – many of the
R Core Team are nearing or post retirement and there are not enough new contributors
to sustain the work. In this talk, I will present a number of initiatives, fostered
under my EPSRC RSE Fellowship: ‘Sustainability and EDI (Equality, Diversity and
Inclusion) in the R Project’, that are designed to encourage and train a new, more
diverse, generation of contributors.
The initiatives vary from regular support on the R Contributor Slack and in R
Contributor Office Hours, to one-off events aimed at new contributors such as a
Collaboration Campfire series and a Bug BBQ . I will report back on the recent R
Project Sprint 2023, hosted at Warwick University, which brought members of the R
Core Team together with both novice and experienced contributors to work in
collaboration – the first event of this kind in the R community. I will discuss how
we hope to keep the momentum going and how RSEs might contribute to the R Project
and other fundamental open source projects.
location: West Cambridge and online via Zoom
begin: 2023-11-02 13:00:00
duration: { hours: 1 }
event_url: "https://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/69831"
- summary: Cambridge RSE Seminar - Sustainability at The Netherlands eScience Center - Niels Drost
description: |
The Netherlands eScience Center is the Dutch national expertise center for research
software. We work with researchers from across the Netherlands and beyond, in all
fields of research on creating and using research software, as well as building
capacity through teaching, fellowships, and other community efforts.
We are passionate about making software sustainable (as in durable) so that it can
be used by as many researchers as possible. To facilitate this we created the
Research Software Directory (<https://research-software-directory.org/>), a service
to show the impact of research software.
A re-occurring theme in our projects is that of sustainability (as in climate change).
Over the years we have contributed to a number of projects and software related to
sustainability, including ESM Valtool (<https://esmvaltool.org/>), software supporting
the evaluation of Earth system models, and used in the latest IPCC report.
In my presentation I will explain the structure of the eScience Center and how it
came to be, introduce the research software directory, and provide some examples
of projects in the area of sustainability we contribute to.
Niels Drost is a Research Software Engineer from the Netherlands. He is currently
the Programme Manager for Environment and Sustainability at the Netherlands eScience
Center. He has a background in Computer Science in the area of High Performance
Computing, helped establish the Dutch chapter of the RSE community (NL-RSE,
<https://nl-rse.org/>), and has worked on many different research projects over
the years, mostly in the fields of Climate Science and Hydrology.
location: West Cambridge and online via Zoom
begin: 2023-11-09 13:00:00
duration: { hours: 1 }
event_url: "https://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/69831"
- summary: Cambridge RSE Seminar - Teaching RSE for Digital Humanities - Mary Chester-Cadwell
description: |
Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) runs a variety of learning opportunities that
introduce RSE practices to students, researchers and staff in the arts, humanities,
archives, libraries and museums. The CDH Learning programme offers a 'Best Practices
in Coding for Digital Humanities' series and runs a RSE Methods Fellows programme
for RSEs (of any discipline) to teach workshops and prepare online tutorials.
CDH also hosts a Digital Humanities (DH) RSE Summer School (together with several
partner institutions) with the aim of introducing those who code in research to
beginner and intermediate RSE practices. This is an exciting time for RSE in DH
and these recent initiatives are still in the process of active development. In
this talk I will discuss some of the challenges and opportunities of making RSE
relevant to the various types of research under the ‘DH umbrella’, how best to
engage DH scholars and RSEs from other disciplines in this joint endeavour, and
where this might take us next.
location: West Cambridge and online via Zoom
begin: 2023-11-16 13:00:00
duration: { hours: 1 }
event_url: "https://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/69831"
- summary: Cambridge RSE Seminar - How not to write a convection parameterisation code? - Mike Whitall
description: |
Convection parameterisations are a crucial element of global atmospheric models.
They simulate the vertical transport of heat, moisture and momentum by convective
clouds, and associated rainfall. The majority of Tropical rainfall is associated
with these clouds, which are too small-scale to explicitly resolve on the model’s
grid and so need to be parameterised.
Most global atmosphere models use a so-called 'mass-flux' form of convection
parameterisation, which consists of a diagnostic vertical integral to compute the
properties of the clouds and the amount of heat / moisture entrained / detrained
at each height. The calculations in a given vertical column of model grid-points
are completely independent of those in other neighbouring columns, so it would be
simplest to write the code so that it only considers a single column at a time.
However, since we are performing a vertical integral the calculations at a given
height within each column depend on the results from those calculations at the
level below, so the scheme must be structured in a vertically sequential manner
considering a single height-level at a time.
Considering only a single column and a single height-level at a time amounts to
computing only a single grid-point at a time. On CPU architectures, this is
extremely inefficient; far greater computation speeds are obtained by doing many
identical calculations simultaneously, via vectorisation. Another challenge/opportunity
is the sparsity of the required calculations, since convective clouds only occupy a
small fraction of the atmosphere’s volume.
In this talk I discuss routes to exploiting both vectorisation and shared memory
parallelisation, and how to make efficient use of memory given the sparsity, in the
comorph convection parameterisation fortran code currently under development at the
Met Office.
However, current and future changes in software and HPC architectures (such as GPUs)
may radically change the optimal code structure. Is there any way to adapt our
convection code to these changes without completely rewriting it, or write it in a
'future proof' way?
location: West Cambridge and online via Zoom
begin: 2023-11-23 13:00:00
duration: { hours: 1 }
event_url: "https://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/69831"

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