<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div>Please consider submitting a whitepaper to this workshop. The deadline for whitepapers is June 12. See details below.<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Lois</div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"Heroux, Michael A" <<a href="mailto:maherou@sandia.gov">maherou@sandia.gov</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>[SIAM-SC] CSESSP Challenges: Call for Participation</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">May 16, 2015 11:11:12 AM EDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">SIAM-SC list <<a href="mailto:siam-sc@siam.org">siam-sc@siam.org</a>>, SIAM CSE <<a href="mailto:siam-cse@siam.org">siam-cse@siam.org</a>><br></span></div><br>
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<div>The Computational Science & Engineering Software Sustainability and Productivity Challenges (CSESSP Challenges) Workshop will provide an opportunity for multi-agency collaboration on the common software challenges the CSE community faces.</div>
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<div class="">Computational Science & Engineering Software Sustainability and Productivity Challenges (CSESSP Challenges)</div>
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<div class="">An inter-agency workshop sponsored by the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) / Software Design and Productivity (SDP) Coordinating Group (CG).</div>
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<div class="">October 15th-16th 2015, Washington DC, USA</div>
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<div class="">Software has emerged as a critical technology in all sectors including defense, health systems, banking, transportation, energy, science and engineering, and manufacturing. However, software lifecycle cost is increasingly becoming the dominant
fraction of the total information technology investment. Additionally, software activities have been a major factor in large-scale project delays, failures, cost overruns, and productivity bottlenecks. There is a general consensus that current approaches produce
software that is difficult to maintain, upgrade, and scale, especially in the face of rapidly changing machine architecture and new system requirements. </div>
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<div class="">The CSESSP Challenges workshop will identify the unique issues around software productivity and sustainability faced by the NITRD computational science and engineering (CSE) communities, bringing together experts from academia, industry, government,
and national laboratories. The workshop will focus on general issues and challenges of software systems sustainability and productivity with the aim of making software a first-class issue in the specification, design, cost and lifecycles management of science
and engineering infrastructures. In this context, the workshop will discuss technical issues that impact software sustainability, such as software requirements engineering, high-productivity software engineering, reproducibility, software maintenance processes,
and scalable, reusable, and portable software system architectures, to name a few. </div>
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<div class="">We invite short (1 or 2 page) papers from computational science software developers, software system engineers, computer system engineers and architects, software managers, experts in related scientific software fields and government agency representatives.
In the context of improving CSE software sustainability and productivity, these papers should identify and describe challenges, new approaches and strategies, best practices or experiences in related fields, and non-technical issues such as science policies
and economic factors. These papers will be used by the program committee to structure the workshop, provide background material, and contribute to selecting attendees. </div>
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<div class="">Areas of interest for the CSESSP Challenges Workshop include but are not limited to the following: </div>
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<div class="">- Characterization of the emerging sustainability and productivity crisis from laptops to extreme-scale systems.</div>
<div class=""> o Software as a critical national infrastructure and as a virtual facility for computational science and engineering.</div>
<div class="">- New approaches to scientific software that significantly improve sustainability and productivity, including leveraging software engineering research:</div>
<div class=""> o Strategies and technologies for minimizing the impacts of rapidly changing architectures and languages on large software systems</div>
<div class=""> o Facilitating software performance, portability, legacy software factoring, interoperability and reusability.</div>
<div class="">- Understanding the economics of CSE software and opportunities and new models of partnership between academia, independent software vendors, the manufacturing industry and government:</div>
<div class=""> o Understanding licensing and governance issues.</div>
<div class=""> o Opportunities for economic sustainment of software tools.</div>
<div class="">- Encouraging and developing software ecosystems to support and advance sustained scientific innovation and discovery:</div>
<div class=""> o Supporting and leveraging changes in computing technologies, science methods and algorithms.</div>
<div class=""> o Understanding how software tools can contribute to sustainability & productivity.</div>
<div class="">- Supporting and encouraging CSE user and developer communities; education and building a CSE software workforce.</div>
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<div class="">Submissions of up to two pages should be formatted to be easily readable and submitted as a PDF document using Easychair at </div>
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<div class="">12 June 2015 (any time of day)</div>
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<div class="">Some limited travel support may be available, please check the workshop web page.</div>
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<div class=""> - June 12, 2015 <span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Paper submission deadline</div>
<div class=""> - July 24 2015 <span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Workshop attendees invited</div>
<div class=""> - September 11, 2015 <span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Deadline for acceptances</div>
<div class=""> - October 15-16, 2015 <span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>CSESSP Challenges Workshop</div>
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<div class=""> - Dai Hyun Kim, Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD)</div>
<div class=""> - Daniel S. Katz, National Science Foundation</div>
<div class=""> - James Kirby, Naval Research Laboratory</div>
<div class=""> - Sol Greenspan, National Science Foundation</div>
<div class=""> - Steven Drager, Air Force Research Laboratory</div>
<div class=""> - T. Ndousse-Fetter, Office of Science, US Department of Energy</div>
<div class=""> - Vivien Bonazzi, NIH/OD/Senior Advisor for Data Science Technologies ADDs Team</div>
<div class=""> - Walid Keyrouz, National Institute of Standards and Technology</div>
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<div class=""> - Jeff Carver, U of Alabama</div>
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<div class=""> - Merle Giles, U of Illinois </div>
<div class=""> - Lois McInnes, Argonne </div>
<div class=""> - Manish Parashar, Rutgers University</div>
<div class=""> - Doug Post, DOD </div>
<div class=""> - Roldan Pozo, NIST </div>
<div class=""> - Ethan Coon, LANL</div>
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