IDEAS: Software Productivity and Sustainability Improvement Plans

Poster presented at SIAM CSE17 PP108 Minisymposterium: Software Productivity and Sustainability for CSE and Data Science<div><br></div><div><div>Scientific software is playing an increasingly important role in both accelerating scientific discovery, and developing a predictive understanding of complex systems needed to inform policy decisions.  To support this role amidst the increasing complexity of the system models, and the disruptive changes in hardware and software, improvements in software development productivity and sustainability are needed. To address this critical need, the Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) has have begun exploring the development and use of Software Productivity and Sustainability Improvement Plans (PSIPs) within its Subsurface Biogeochemical Research Program and the Interoperable Development of Extreme-scale Software Applications (IDEAS) project.</div></div