Who Are The RSG?

• One of the oldest in the country
• First Professor of Research Software Engineering, Simon Hettrick
• Multidisciplinary
• Part of ECS
• Can be hired directly or costed into bids
• Active and growing

Skills

• C, C++
• FORTRAN (classic & modern)
• MPI-Python
• Legacy Codes
• Containerisation & deployment
• Profiling & optimisation
• Documentation

Backgrounds

• Computational Chemistry
• Computational Physics & Astrophysics
• Computational Biology

Example Projects

METHOD

• Multifluid Electromagneto-HydroDynamics for gravity group

• Modern C++ code
• Implement MPI & CUDA parallelism
• Profiling for hardware selection
• Documentation & testing
• HDF5 output

QCD Solver Feasibility Study

• Exascale HPC solver for QCD equations
• Cutting-edge modern C++
• Feasibility study into applying solvers designed for multidimensional problems to equations in finance
• Undocumented, heavily metaprogrammed code
• Submitted pull requests back to fix issues

Python
[Not That One]

• Astrophysical Monte Carlo radiative transfer & ionisation code
• Legacy code from 1997 in pre-ANSI C
• Documentation
  • Sphinx, Doxygen, user docs
• Maintenance & bugfixing
  • Updating dependencies

ForestGrowth SRC

• Predicts biomass yield of woody plants
• Undocumented FORTRAN, C++
• Not version-controlled
• Special compiler dependency
• Ported from desktop code to be submittable to HPC cluster
• Developed REST API & web interface