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Parsl Sustainability and RSEs

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: : Research software projects often are initially funded by a grant that supports development of the software. But when the grant ends, the projects have to shift to another model to support the required software maintenance, if the software is going to continue being used. This talk will look at the Parsl (https://parsl-project.org) software, which allows a user to decorate Python functions and calls to external functions so that they return futures, allowing them to be run asynchronously and in parallel. It will also look at the Parsl project and its effort to become sustainable, across a set of project phases, including the different kinds of RSE work that have taken place during the project. These activities, phases, and developer types appear to be useful concepts for planning or studying other research software projects, or research software as a whole.

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15018496

Authors: Katz, Daniel S., Clifford, Ben, Babuji, Yadu, Hunter Kesling, Kevin, Woodard, Anna Elizabeth, Chard, Kyle

Institutions: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Chicago

Language: English

Topic: Scientific Computing and Data Management

Subfield: Information Systems and Management

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W6893303439

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