Organizing Simulation Code Collectives
Organizing Simulation Code Collectives
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组织模拟代码集体
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2010
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Mikaela Sundberg
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作者：
Mikaela Sundberg
本文探讨了研究人员开发和使用计算机程序进行数值模拟的方式，以及为这些活动创建框架所涉及的不同社会关系。在天体物理学、海洋学和气象学（包括气候建模）数值模拟实践的人种学案例研究的基础上，本文讨论了如何通过模拟代码集合的类型来讨论模拟代码的工作。这种类型学系统地描述了软件开发和使用的特定且日益重要的形式如何在科学中发生。它还有助于当前关于技术生产者和使用者之间关系的讨论，建议可以通过与他们一起工作的人（模拟主义者）所嵌入的社会关系来理解它们作为经验类别的定义。
This article examines the ways researchers develop and use computer programs for numerical simulations and the different social relationships that are involved in creating the frames for these activities. On the basis of ethnographic case studies of numerical simulation practice in astrophysics, oceanography, and meteorology, including climate modelling, the present article discusses how work with simulation codes can be discussed by means of a typology of simulation code collectives. This typology provides a systematic account of how a particular and increasingly important form of software development and use takes place in science. It also contributes to current discussions on the relation between producers and users of technology by suggesting that the defi nition of them as empirical categories can be understood through the social relationships that the people (simulationists) working with them are embedded in.