Who Are The RSG?

Skills

• C, C++, FORTRAN
• Python, R
• Web development

• Legacy code
• Machine learning
• Testing
• Optimisation
• Containerisation
• Documentation
• Training

Backgrounds

• Simulation & modelling
• Data science
• High performance computing

• Chemistry
• Physics
• Astrophysics
• Biology
• Psychology
• Maths
• Computer Science

What Can We Do?

Consolidated Grant Funding

• 0.3 FTE for 2 years (Oct 2023-2025)
  • Can bring on multiple RSEs for short periods if needed (scheduling depending!)
• Support for Theory & Maths
• What do you want us to do?

METHOD

• Multifluid Electromagneto-HydroDynamics

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

Joining the Dots

• Kepler Mapper Python library
• Topological mapping of high-dimensional data
• Web interface & data management framework
• Added persistance homology
• Bugfixes and enhancements to Kepler Mapper

SPACE Labelling Tool

• SPectrogram Analysis & Cataloguing Environment
• ML on 10s of GB of satellite data
• Manual feature selection
• 10+ speedup within a week
• Huge space saving
• Extensible, multi-step pipeline
• Easy-to-use GUI*

Web Apps For Engineers

• MatLab scripts for wind turbine models
• Re-implemented in Python
• Web UI for ease of use
• Increased impact

Data Science & ML

Web Platforms

High Performance
Computing

Software Archeology

MoleGazer

Swiftly

DAQ2

Python[*]

Radii Devices

CilliaCatch

CSPDB

Software Training

• Intermediate Software Carpentry
  • Architecture, testing, packaging
  • Delivered at Oxford, CCFE, AstraZeneca
• DiRAC, Universe-HPC
  • Using HPC, parallelism, optimisation
• CDT intro courses
• Astronomy group
• CHEP (more in a moment!)

What would you want?

What Else Is On Offer?

Software Carpentry

• Funded by CHEP, sign up on StaffBook
• Intro courses:
  • Command-line terminal
  • Intro to Python
  • Intro to R
  • Version Control
  • Managing Academic Software Development
• Next dates:
  • 4-13th March
  • 12-16th August

HPC Support

• 3 fully-funded HPC Research Software Engineers
• Ad-hoc support
  • ~1 week free
  • Advice, consultation, project design.
• Governed projects
  • 1-12 weeks free
  • Porting codes to HPC, optimisation, enhancement
  • Requires submitting a project application
• Get in touch!
  • rsg.soton.ac.uk/hpc
  • rsg-hpc@soton.ac.uk

Costed Projects

• Can write RSEs into grants
• Can buy RSE time
• Dependent on availability!
• For large grants, we can hire new RSEs

Research Software Community

• Meeting once per semester
• Next: AI & GPUs in Research
  • 29th February
  • Talks from NVIDIA
  • HPC GPU updates
• Free lunch!
• Sign up to attend
• rsg.soton.ac.uk/community