CCASR Planning workshop on

Climate Computing and Applied Software Research

Introductions•Organizers:

•Jon  Pipitone,  U.  Toronto•Neil  Ernst,  U.  Toronto•Steve  Easterbrook,  U.  Toronto•Jorge  Aranda,  U.  Victoria

•Climate  model  experts:•Tom  Clune,  NASA  GSFC  Software  Integration  and  Visualization  Office

•Robert  Jacob,  Argonne  N.L.•Jay  Larson,  Argonne  N.L.

•Software  researchers:•Abram  Hindle,  UC  Davis•He  Zhang,  Tsinghua  U.,  Beijing  (via  email)

Workshop Objective•Develop  a  community  of  practice  around  software  and  climate  change•  Need  a  strong  applied  software  research  community  that  can  contribute  to  the  efforts  of  climate  scientists,  policy  makers,  and  the  general  public.

•Explore  new  ways  of  collaborating  and  working  in  the  software  research  community•Having  to  travel  to  go  to  a  workshop  is  unsustainable  and  exclusionary,  workshop  papers  are  hard  to  republish,  and  presentations  are  unfortunately  often  dull  and  unproductive.

Workshop agenda•Brief  introduction•Climate  scientists  present  their  major  requirements/problems•Q:  what is the major software pain point from your POV?

•Software  researchers  discuss  possible  contributions•Q:  what  software  technique  do  you  think  can  help  climate  computing?

•Discussion  about  future  workshops