Report on the Third Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE3)

This report records and discusses the Third Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE3). The report includes a description of the keynote presentation of the workshop, which served as an overview of sustainable scientific software. It also summarizes a set of lightning talks in which speakers highlighted to-the-point lessons and challenges pertaining to sustaining scientific software. The final and main contribution of the report is a summary of the discussions, future steps, and future organization for a set of self-organized working groups on topics including developing pathways to funding scientific software; constructing useful common metrics for crediting software stakeholders; identifying principles for sustainable software engineering design; reaching out to research software organizations around the world; and building communities for software sustainability. For each group, we include a point of contact and a landing page that can be used by those who want to join that group’s future activities. The main challenge left by the workshop is to see if the groups will execute these activities that they have scheduled, and how the WSSSPE community can encourage this to happen. (1) Computation Institute, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, IL, USA; [email protected]. (2) NORC at the University of Chicago and Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA; [email protected]. (3) School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA; [email protected]. (4) Research Software Development Group, University College London, UK; [email protected]. (5) Center for Computation & Technology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA; {knarf,sbrandt}@cct.lsu.edu. (6) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA; [email protected]. (7) RENCI, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; [email protected]. (8) University of California, San Diego, CA, USA; [email protected]. (9) Center for Research Computing, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA; [email protected]. (10) New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI), University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ; [email protected]. (11) University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; [email protected]. (12) Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA; [email protected]. (13) National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA; [email protected]. (14) College of Computer Engineering & Computer Science, California State University, Long Beach, CA, USA; [email protected]. (15) School of Computing and Engineering, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK; [email protected]. (16) UCAR Unidata, Boulder, CO, USA; [email protected]. (17) University of California, Davis, CA, USA; [email protected]. (18) Science & Technology Facilities Council, UK; [email protected]. (19) Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA; [email protected]. (20) Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA; [email protected]. 1 ar X iv :1 60 2. 02 29 6v 1 [ cs .S E ] 6 F eb 2 01 6