A survey of the practice of computational science

Prakash Prabhu; Hanjun Kim; Taewook Oh; Thomas B. Jablin; Nick P. Johnson; Matthew Zoufaly; Arun Raman; Feng Liu; David P. Walker; Yun Zhang; Soumyadeep Ghosh; David I. August; Jialu Huang; Stephen Beard

doi:10.1145/2063348.2063374

A survey of the practice of computational science

Prakash Prabhu, Hanjun Kim, Taewook Oh, Thomas B. Jablin, Nick P. Johnson, Matthew Zoufaly, Arun Raman, Feng Liu, David P. Walker, Yun Zhang, Soumyadeep Ghosh, David I. August, Jialu Huang, Stephen Beard

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Abstract

Computing plays an indispensable role in scientific research. Presently, researchers in science have different problems, needs, and beliefs about computation than professional programmers. In order to accelerate the progress of science, computer scientists must understand these problems, needs, and beliefs. To this end, this paper presents a survey of scientists from diverse disciplines, practicing computational science at a doctoral-granting university with very high research activity. The survey covers many things, among them, prevalent programming practices within this scientific community, the importance of computational power in different fields, use of tools to enhance performance and software productivity, computational resources leveraged, and prevalence of parallel computation. The results reveal several patterns that suggest interesting avenues to bridge the gap between scientific researchers and programming tools developers.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	State of the Practice Reports, SC'11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2063348.2063374
State	Published - 2011
Event	State of the Practice Reports, SC'11 - Seattle, WA, United States Duration: Nov 12 2011 → Nov 18 2011

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Country/Territory	United States
City	Seattle, WA
Period	11/12/11 → 11/18/11

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Computer Networks and Communications
Computer Science Applications

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Prabhu, P, Kim, H, Oh, T, Jablin, TB, Johnson, NP, Zoufaly, M, Raman, A, Liu, F, Walker, DP, Zhang, Y, Ghosh, S, August, DI, Huang, J & Beard, S 2011, A survey of the practice of computational science. in State of the Practice Reports, SC'11., 19, State of the Practice Reports, SC'11, State of the Practice Reports, SC'11, Seattle, WA, United States, 11/12/11. https://doi.org/10.1145/2063348.2063374

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