Simon Hettrick
Professor Simon Hettrick is Deputy Director of the Software Sustainability Institute, and a Director of the Southampton Research Software Group.
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Simon Hettrick
ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195
*Refs [1]
Use
software
Fundamental to
results
Develop own code
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92%
56%
code... is reused... The error is in the code that converts a 64-bit floating-point number to a 16-bit signed integer... the 64-bit numbers [are] larger... than [the previous code], triggering an overflow condition...
...[the] backup computer crashes, followed 0.05 seconds later by a crash of the primary computer.
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References
[1] "It's impossible to conduct research without software, say 7 out of 10 UK researchers"http://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2014-12-04-its-impossible-conduct-research-without-software-say-7-out-10-uk-researchers
[2] Hannay JE, Langtangen HP, MacLeod C, Pfahl D, Singer J, et al.. (2009) How do scientists develop and use scientific software? In: Proceedings Second International Workshop on Software Engineering for Computational Science and Engineering. pp. 1–8. doi:10.1109/SECSE.2009.5069155.
[3] Prabhu P, Jablin TB, Raman A, Zhang Y, Huang J, et al.. (2011) A survey of the practice of computational science. In: Proceedings 24th ACM/IEEE Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. pp. 19:1–19:12. doi:10.1145/2063348.2063374.
[4] "Retraction" http://www.sciencemag.org/content/314/5807/1875.2.long
[5] Stefik A, Siebert A, Stefik M, Slattery M, "An empirical comparison of the accuracy rates of novices using the quorum, perl, and randomo programming languages", Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Evaluation and usability of programming languages and tools
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Professor Simon Hettrick is Deputy Director of the Software Sustainability Institute, and a Director of the Southampton Research Software Group.