[Imsa-hpc-list] Fwd: Software sustainability proposal

[Steve Stevenson]

Y'all,

We have a great opportunity to collaborate with the White Rose Grid in  
the UK in an important area of computational and computer science:  
sustainability. This opportunity grows out of my collaboration with  
Mike Griffiths and Deniz Savos of Sheffield University. Mike is the  
director of White Rose. He is making contact with Graham Sykes at  
Sheffield, who is their coordinator of such projects. I'm not sure who  
has to sign documents here: I'm assuming at least the department heads  
and Deans.

Meantime and given the below information, if you are interested in  
participating please email me.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Mike Griffiths <m.griffiths at sheffield.ac.uk>
> Date: May 29, 2009 5:26:05 AM EDT
> To: Steve Stevenson <fatmarauder at me.com>, Deniz Savas <d.savas at sheffield.ac.uk 
> >
> Cc: mikeg2105 at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: Software sustainability proposal
>
> Dear Steve
> Here is some information about our outline proposal  that we are  
> submitting
>
> 1. The project is about software sustainability
>   the focus is enabling high quality research through the use and  
> developement of high quality software
>
> We are proposing a platform for delivering such applications.
> Clemson would be involved because
>   1. They would test the infrastructure
>   2. We would use the infrastructure to access services hosted by  
> Clemson
>        example services may be developed for example using Matt  
> Saltznman's AMPL optimisation library
>        e.g. training examples
>   3. Through the shared training courses  we are promoting good  
> software development practice
>       using   http://www.swampfox.ws/2008/10/20/open-source-development-course-clemson
>
> I guess that what we require is some more formalised confirmation  
> from Clemson that this would be OK.
> Please let me know what you think.
>
> I will contact Graham Sykes about are intentions with both the  
> current project and our proposed sustaiability bid.
> (I will pass on Bruce Raferts contact details to Graham Sykes as  
> well )
> (I got the contact details from http://profiles.asee.org/profiles/3527/screen/1?school_name=Clemson+University 
>  )
>
>
> Regards
> Mike
> Steve Stevenson wrote:
>>
>> On May 15, 2009, at 10:58 AM, Mike Griffiths wrote:
>>
>>> Steve
>>> 1.  Collaboration agreement clemson-sheffield
>>
>> You listed Graham Syskes as the contact at Sheffield. Do he and  
>> Bruce Rafert know one another? If not, send me contact information  
>> and I'll get  with Bruce.
>>>
>>>
>>> Deniz has a crazy idea!
>>>
>>> 2. Sheffield would support Matt Saltznman's AMPL optimisation  
>>> library
>>> by hosting it on the proposed repository and providing services  
>>> that utilised this
>>> (through our IOME service|)
>>>
>>> we would provide this internationally recognised code on the  
>>> repository
>>> we are going to establish as part of this call
>>>
>>> Can we massage this into a more mutually acceptable form?
>>>
>>>
>>> a reference letter from clemson supporting this would be  
>>> useful..... would that be OK
>>> (this would strengthen our bid)
>>
>> What do we need? Matt's letter? I can  get to Matt. He was going to  
>> be on yesterday, but waited too long to get an AG client. I'll have  
>> a session with Dan Warner and Matt before our next get-together.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>>
>>> Steve Stevenson wrote:
>>>> What do you need from us?
>>>>
>>>> Steve
>>>> --------
>>>> D. E. Stevenson, Department of Computer Science
>>>> Director, Institute for Modeling and Simulation Applications
>>>> Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0974
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On May 14, 2009, at 11:13 AM, M K Griffiths wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear All
>>>>> Thank you for the responses regarding the software  
>>>>> sustainability call.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here are some of the call objectives that we satisfy
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. The software that has been presented satisfies the objective  
>>>>> of enabling
>>>>> high quality research.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. Facilitates maintenance and development of high quality  
>>>>> software
>>>>>
>>>>> 3. Enables delivery of applications in a sustainable manner,  
>>>>> independent of the
>>>>> underlying service infrastructure
>>>>>
>>>>> 4. Work with Clemson University in South Carolina is enabling us  
>>>>> to develop and
>>>>> test our techniques for sharing applications provided by  
>>>>> different compute
>>>>> resources spread across the international community
>>>>>
>>>>> Additionaly, the multidisciplinary nature of our projects within  
>>>>> Sheffield and
>>>>> the White Rose Grid will enable us to explore the variety of  
>>>>> approaches for
>>>>> enabling access to software in a sustainable fashion
>>>>>
>>>>> Please find attached further questions provided by Merlyne.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mike Griffiths
>>>>> Research Computing Support
>>>>> Corporate Information and Computing Services<Details-sscall.doc>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>

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Steve Stevenson