Software Engineering for scientists and researchers

Dr Rad Suchecki1, Dr Nathan Watson-Haigh2, Dr Stuart  Stephen3, Dr Alex Whan4 1CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Urrbrae, Australia 2School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, The University of Adelaide, Urrbrae, Australia 3CSIRO Agriculture and Food, St. Lucia, Australia 4CSIRO Agriculture and...

Mr Anders Savill1 1Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, Kensington, Australia   In the digital age, Scientists are facing a number of new challenges. For example the emergence of high-throughput sequencing has pushed the study of some biology fields into the computer science...

Dr Paulus Lahur1 1CSIRO (IMT), Clayton South, Australia   A list of around ten major things that require relatively small effort to implement, but promise big reward towards the success of a scientific code. The list is drawn from references...

Mr Lance Holden1, Dr Antonio Giardina2, Mr Denis Shine1 1DSTG, Edinburgh, Australia, 2Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia   When the Defence Science Technology Group (DSTG) analyse close combat via simulations, they are required to generate a large amount of interaction data...

Mr Lachlan Hetherton1 1CSIRO, Northcote, Australia   Workspace is a proven platform for delivering software applications for commercial and research purposes. The Workspace framework provides a single environment to develop and reuse software components and libraries that are designed to...

Mr Juan Guzman1 1Csiro, Bentley , Australia   After a design phase of almost 5 years the SKA consortia are amidst their Critical Design Reviews (CDR). One of the most challenging elements is the Science Data Processor (SDP), that takes...

Mr Wael Farah1 1Swinburne University Of Technology, Melbourne, Australia   In the last decade, a new class of radio transients, called Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), have been discovered. FRBs, typically observed as one-off bright millisecond flashes, coupled with hints that...

Mr Kheeran Dharmawardena1, Mr Hamish Holewa2 1Cytrax Consulting, , Australia, 2Atlas of Living Australia, , Australia   Creating and sustaining eResearch platforms is a complex undertaking. Alongside the significant technical challenges of creating flexible, high performance platforms are a set...

Dr Thomas Close1,2, Dr Phillip Ward3,4, Mr Francesco Sforazzini1, Dr Zhaolin Chen1,5, Prof Gary Egan1,3,4 1Monash Biomedical Imaging (MBI), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 2National Imaging Facility (NIF), Melbourne, Australia, 3Centre for Integrative Brain Function (CIBF), Melbourne, Australia, 4Monash Institute of...

Mr Ben Leighton1, Mr Andrew Freebairn2, Mr Ashley Sommer3, Dr Jonathan Yu 1, Dr Simon Cox1 1CSIRO, Clayton, Australia, 2CSIRO, Canberra, Australia, 3CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia   Containers provide a lightweight way of creating and maintaining software system deployments as executable...