• SGX3 Webinar March 21 on OSPool
• Are you an undergraduate interested in learning to code? Join us at the next Summer 2024 SGX3 Coding Institute (virtual)
• Upcoming ModelShare Workshop on March 25, 2024
• ACCESS Science Gateways Integration
• HICSS-58 Call for Papers - Software Sustainability: Research on Usability, Maintainability, and Reproducibility Minitrack
• List of upcoming events & open job positions

What's New

SGX3 Webinar: Expandable Computing Through the OSPool

Summer 2024 SGX3 Coding Institute 

ModelShare: Workshop on Guidance and Standards

The Open Modeling Foundation is happy to announce the first of seven workshops aimed at developing good practices and recommendations for improving metadata in computational model-sharing and publishing platforms.

The next ModelShare event will be on preserving and publishing computational models (March 25) with Lauren Cadwallader (PLOS) and Lars Nielsen (CERN), moderated by Michael Barton (OMF) ’

Zoom registration: https://ucsd.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvd-GprzMsHtGvnPvHgroR-mk3Y5ldQmm2#/registration

ACCESS Science Gateways Integration

The ACCESS program is delighted to announce documentation and consultant support for integrating ACCESS allocated science gateways into the ACCESS cyberinfrastructure environment. The Science Gateway Integration Roadmap documentation is available through the Operations portal at  https://operations.access-ci.org/pub/access-infrastructure-integration.

This comprehensive documentation provides detailed instructions on how to integrate and operate science gateways in ACCESS. It covers a range of tasks, including describing the science gateway to enable research discovery, requesting ACCESS allocations and community accounts, creating affinity group where gateway users can interact, and reporting which gateway users consumed allocated resources. A science gateways integration concierge/consultant is available to assist with the integration process, and the integration roadmap documentation.

In addition to publishing the roadmap documentation for science gateways, we have successfully registered the science gateways in CiDer. You can access the registered gateways at https://cider.access-ci.org/ under ORGANIZATIONS --> ACCESS.

If you need any help, submit a support ticket with the ACCESS Operations Integration Concierge Team.

HICSS-58 Call for Papers - Software Sustainability: Research on Usability, Maintainability, and Reproducibility Minitrack

This minitrack is dedicated to exploring the critical intersection of software usability, sustainability, and reproducibility, acknowledging the expanding role of software in shaping research across diverse domains. The three concepts usability, sustainability and reproducibility are interconnected with each other and cover a wide range of application areas. They affect all layers of the software process – from enabling reproducing experiments via an easy user interface to using containerization for application portability. Such concepts are also relevant in the building of Science Gateways (also known as virtual laboratories or virtual research environments), which by definition serve communities with end-to-end solutions tailored specifically to their needs. The mini-track will focus on the broad spectrum of submissions that deal with complex scenarios such as containerization, strategies for long-lasting software, usability and user interface issues, handling data curation and provenance and more.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Web-based solutions (web sites, science gateways, virtual labs, etc.)
• Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
• Computational and Data-Intensive Workflows
• Novel approaches in containerization
• Sustainability practices in software development
• System architectures for testing and continuous integration
• Emerging best practices in Machine Learning software
• Best practices and Key Success Factors for usability, sustainability and reproducibility
• Community building practices
• Sustainability practices in software development, with a focus on AI applications
• System architectures for testing and continuous integration in AI systems
• Emerging best practices in AI and Machine Learning software
• Addressing ethical considerations in AI-related software
• Best practices and Key Success Factors for usability, sustainability, and reproducibility in the context of AI

Opportunities

Upcoming events

• IWSG 2024 Workshop will take place from June 18-20, 2024 in Toulouse, France. The Call for Papers is open with Papers due March 25.
• Summer 2024 SGX3 Coding Institute will take place virtually from June 3-27, 2024. Undergraduate students are encouraged to apply by April 30, 2024.
• PEARC24 will take place from July 21-25, 2024 in Providence, RI. The Call for Participation is open.
• TrustedCI 2024 Cybersecurity Summit will take place from October 7-10, 2024 in Pittsburgh, PA.
• Gateways 2024 will take place from October 8-10, 2024 in Bozeman, MT. The Call for Participation will be out soon!
• US-RSE 2024 will take place from October 15-17, 2024 in Albuquerque, NM.
• Call for Papers for HICSS-58 - deadline June 15, 2024 11:59 PM HST

Interested in a position change?

• Rice University is seeking a Infrastructure Specialist
• NCSA is seeking an Associate Director for Engagement and Director of Illinois Computes
• Purdue University is seeking an AI Research Scientist
• More listings are available on our job board listing.