NCSA Software

Mission:  To develop teams of research software engineers who amplify and advance scientific/industrial endeavors requiring software/data through the development of innovative software paradigms, platforms, and capabilities

Vision: World-leading Research Software Engineers who enable new capabilities and advance discovery through innovative software/data solutions

Directorate Information

• Welcome to the Software Directorate
• Software & Services
• Publications (Overview Publications per Topic)
• Software Seminars
• Software Working Group
• Student Internship Ideas
• Project Development
• Relevant Venues
• Meeting notes
• Documentation
• Discussions
• Archived

Organization

• NCSA Leadership
• Software Management Committee (MC)
• Research Software Applications and Learning Technologies (ReSALT)
• Software Applications and Data Laboratory (SADL)
• Software Design, Delivery and Deployment (SD3)
• Tools for Research Institutions and Infrastructure (TRI)
• Visual Analytics (VA)

Staff

• Directory
• Where are my boss & colleagues?
• Onboarding - being updated
• Career Paths

• Staff Support:

  • New ideas: Center Directed Discretionary Research (CDDR)
  • New collaborations: NCSA Fellows (wiki)
    
    • NCSA Fellows Requests
  • Student outreach: SPIN
  • Staff Development
    • NCSA Staff Development
    • Campus Staff Development
• Kenton's Corner

Dissemination

• Webpage: http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/enabling/software
• Software directorate mailing list: sd@lists.ncsa.illinois.edu
• Public mailing list: software@ncsa.illinois.edu
  • To be added to the software mailing list visit https://lists.ncsa.illinois.edu/lists/info/software and login with your Illinois username/password
• Chat:
  • NCSA Slack: https://ncsa-at-illinois.slack.com
    
    • Directorate channel, for directorate discussions: #sd-general
    • Public channel, for general software discussions: #software
  • US-RSE (US Research Software Engineering community)
    • Slack: https://usrse.slack.com
    • Signup: https://us-rse.org/join/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGIXAeNEa2v7Gt-tvfdJPvw
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/NCSASoftware
• Publications:
  • Zotero: https://www.zotero.org/groups/11520/ncsa_software

Resources

• Repositories (see Repositories for details):
  • GitHub: https://github.com/ncsa/
  • Atlassian suite: https://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu (opensource software only!)
    
  • DockerHub: https://hub.docker.com/u/ncsa
  • Harbor: https://hub.ncsa.illinois.edu
  • npmjs: https://www.npmjs.com/org/ncsa
• Infrastructure (Computation & Storage):
  • Condo - Storage resource (Jim Glasgow)
    • 10+ PB of storage accessiable via GridFTP, NSF, and native GPFS
  • Open Storage Network - Distributed object store storage resource (Jim Glasgow, Kenton McHenry)
    • 5 PB of storage (1 PB locally) accessible via S3 API
  • Radiant - 2nd generation elastic compute resource with nearby data storage (Amy Schuele, Jong Lee, Kenton McHenry)
    • 140 nodes (3360 cores), 35 TB memory, 185 TB flash capacity, with access to 10PB+ of storage
  • HAL - deep learning resource (Vlad Kindratenko) - pilot phase!
    • 81,920 NVIDIA V100 GPU cores, 640 CPU core, 4 TB memory, 230 TB of flash storage (Spectrum Scale/GPFS)
  • iForge - HPC resource in support of industry activities (Neil Andrews) - industry activities!
    • 84 nodes (2,208 cores), 15 TB memory, 700 TB storage