SE4HPCS´15: The 2015 International Workshop on Software Engineering for High Performance Computing in Science

HPC software is developed and used in a wide variety of scientific domains including nuclear physics, computational chemistry, crash simulation, satellite data processing, fluid dynamics, climate modeling, bioinformatics, and vehicle development. The increase in the importance of this software motivates the need to identify and understand appropriate software engineering (SE) practices for HPC architectures. Because of the variety of the scientific domains addressed using HPC, existing SE tools and techniques developed for the business/IT community are often not efficient or effective. Appropriate SE solutions must account for the salient characteristics of the HPC, research oriented development environment. This situation creates a need for members of the SE community to interact with members of the scientific and HPC communities to address this need. This workshop facilitates that collaboration by bringing together members of the SE, the scientific, and the HPC communities to share perspectives and present findings relevant to research, practice, and education. A significant portion of the workshop is devoted to focused interaction among the participants with the goal of generating a research agenda to improve tools, techniques, and experimental methods regarding SE for HPC science.