Lessons from industry for science cyberinfrastructure Simplicity, scale, and sustainability via SaaS/PaaS
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But most labs have extremely limited resources Heidorn: NSF grants in 2007 < $350,000 80% of awards 50% of grant $$
Do you use research software? What would happen to your research without software? Survey of researchers from 15 UK Russell Group universities conducted by SSI between August - October respondents covering representative range of funders, discipline & seniority. Source: Carole Goble
42% of the time spent by an average PI on a federally funded research project was reported to be expended on administrative tasks related to that project rather than on research — Federal Demonstration Partnership faculty burden survey, 2007
Ad-hoc solutions Inadequate software, hardware & IT staff Data plan mandates
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Communicate with colleagues Publish papers Find, configure, install relevant software Find, access, analyze relevant data Document research Order supplies …
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Communicate with colleagues Publish papers Find, configure, install relevant software Find, access, analyze relevant data Document research Order supplies …
Communicate with colleagues Publish papers Find, configure, install relevant software Find, access, analyze relevant data Document research Order supplies …
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Cloud? What cloud? 1 : 1 : 0 UX : Dev : Ops
Informatics Analysis Tools Informatics Analysis Tools High-throughput Experiments High-throughput Experiments Problem Specification Problem Specification Modeling and Simulation Modeling and Simulation Analysis & Visualization Analysis & Visualization Experimental Design Experimental Design Analysis & Visualization Analysis & Visualization Integrated Databases Integrated Databases
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£840m Investment in financial year, an amount that has risen by 3% on average over last four years 30% Of total research investment has been spent on research which relies on software over the last four financial years Analysis of data from 49,650 grant titles and abstracts published on Gateway to Research covering How much is wasted?
scientific software is important for their own research 91% developing scientific software is important for their own research 84% claimed to spend more time developing scientific software than they did 10 years ago 53% spend at least one fifth of their time developing software 38% 2000 scientists. J.E. Hannay et al., “How Do Scientists Develop and Use Scientific Software?” Proc. ICSE Workshop Software Eng. for Computational Science and Eng., 2009, pp. 1–8.