Dr Sam Mangham
An Intro To
What Is The SRSG?
What Do We Do?
External-Facing
What Do We Do?
- 3 community staff
- Mostly coordinated with SSI
- Society of RSE
- RSE Conference
- Hidden REF
- RSE team
- Society of RSE
- RSE Conference
Community
- 1 policy researcher
- Hidden REF
- Industrial Engagement
Policy
- RSE team
- Intermediate Skills
- Testing, continuous integration, design patterns
- Demand-driven
- AI Skills
- HPC Skills
- Policy-driven
- Industry Skills
Training
Software Development
What Do We Do?
- 11 RSEs
- 8 cost-recovered from grants
- 3 funded via HPC
- Usually ~2 projects at ~50% to account for delays
- Very flexible with researchers
- Arguably too flexible...
Software Development Team
- C, C++, FORTRAN
- Python, R
- Webdev
- Legacy code
- Machine learning
- Testing
- Optimisation
- Containerisation
- Documentation
- Training
Skills
- Simulation & modelling
- Data science
- HPC
- Safety critical industry
- Chemistry
- Physics (Astro, Nuclear)
- Biology
- Psychology
- Maths
- Computer Science
Backgrounds
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Ad-hoc support
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~1 week free
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Advice, consultation, project design
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Governed projects
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1-12 weeks free
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Porting codes to HPC, optimisation, enhancement
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Free HPC
- Small (1-4 month FTE)
- Usually 'short' notice
- Impact Acceleration Fund
- Long (3-24 month FTE)
- Written into grants
- Sometimes hire off them
Grant-Funded
Data Science & ML
Web Platforms
High Performance
Computing
Software Archeology
MoleGazer
Swiftly
DAQ2
Sirocco[*]
Radii Devices
CilliaCatch
CSPDB
HEPMDB
METHOD
- 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
Local Training
What Do We Do?
- Regular customers!
- Machine Intelligence for Nanoelectronic Devices (MINDS)
- Sustainable AI CDT (SustAI)
- Quantum Biology (QuantBio)
- Quantum Technology Engineering (QTE)
- Software Carpentries
- Git, Bash, Python
- Commission material
- Managing an Academic Software Project
Centres for Doctoral Training
- Whole-university training
- Run regularly 1-2 a year, at the start of semesters
- Basic intro programme - Git/Bash/Python or Git/R
- Schools request specific training
- ML with SciKit Learn for Physics
- New material based on need
- Git GUI course