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Research software engineering at UiT

research-software.uit.no

Software-related challenges in research

Software-related challenges in research

Research software engineers

.. are people who combine .emph[professional software expertise] with an .emph[understanding of research] .cite[https://researchsoftware.org/]

Often people who grew up in research and liked computing and programming
... or people who come from software development drawn towards meaningful and impactful work of academia

Resources

Society of Research Software Engineering
Recent conference: RSECon 2023
https://nordic-rse.org/
Nordic-RSE unconference 2023

Help with improving your scripts/code

.emph[Code review] (we discuss code in a constructive way)
Making code .emph[more reusable]
Good practices for documentation

Help with organising your code

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Git, GitHub, and GitLab
Moving your work/project/code/data to Git
Modularizing your code
Organization of reusable Python/R notebooks ]

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Help with sharing your code

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Help with software licenses and open sourcing
Publishing code
Packaging and sharing software
Containerization (Singularity, Docker)
PyPI and Conda ]

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Getting results sooner

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Improving scaling, CPU, and memory optimization
Porting to GPU
Moving from local computer to cloud or HPC
Helping with running independent steps in parallel ]

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Our vision

Short term

Provide consulting: good advice is not expensive
.emph[Code review] sessions
Work on "smaller" projects and .emph[document use cases]
Focus on UiT
Attract more projects

Longer term

Be part of funding applications (successful applications with Hylleraas Centre and Framsenteret)
Research groups have access to best in class RSE services
Hire more staff who collaborate on projects
"Proper" application procedure
Going beyond UiT
.emph[Career path opportunities]

RSE is an established field

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Office hours: Wednesday 13:00 - 15:00

https://research-software.uit.no/contact/

Email: rse@uit.no