Better Scientific Software Fellowship Program

解决国家面临的科学软件挑战需要广泛的协作来促进实践、过程和工具，以提高软件开发人员的生产力和软件的可持续性。这两者都是确保计算结果完整性和提高科学生产力的关键方面。更好的科学软件（BSSw）奖学金计划于2018年在美国能源部（DOE）的支持下启动，为高质量科学软件的领导者和倡导者提供认可和资助。该项目将使NSF能够合作赞助BSSw奖学金计划并参与该计划的管理。该项目将在今年试点，NSF将支持一名BSSw研究员和一名荣誉奖获得者，目标是在未来几年扩大到2名或更多的BSSw研究员和荣誉奖获得者。BSSw研究员将获得一笔津贴，可用于促进科学软件改进的各种活动，如组织研讨会或创建教程。BSSw研究员和荣誉奖获得者都将获得旅行支持，与科学界成员一起工作，形成一个团队。美国国家科学基金会（NSF）和美国能源部是先进计算领域的领导者，推动计算和数据驱动科学和工程的发展，作为科学和技术进步的重要推动力。此外，NSF和DOE的研究人员已经开发了广泛的高影响力科学软件，用于高级建模、仿真、发现和分析。然而，由于计算机架构的颠覆性变化和下一代计算科学的日益复杂，该国面临着软件危机。NSF赞助BSSw奖学金计划的合作伙伴关系将为开拓先进计算生态系统的未来提供更强大的方法，以支持美国在科学和工程领域的领导地位。该项目的一个重要组成部分是探索扩大该计划的可行性，以更充分地解决NSF科学界的问题。BSSw奖学金计划加强了劳动力的发展和通往NSF和DOE软件社区的途径，虽然培育了一个将软件实践作为提高整体科学生产力的基本方面的人的网络。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Addressing the scientific software challenges facing the nation requires broad collaboration to foster practices, processes, and tools to improve software developer productivity and software sustainability. Both of those are key aspects of ensuring the integrity of computational results and increasing scientific productivity. The Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Fellowship Program, launched in 2018 with support from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), provides recognition and funding for leaders and advocates of high-quality scientific software. This project will enable NSF to collaborate in sponsorship of the BSSw Fellowship Program and participate in managing the program. The project will be piloted in the current year with NSF support of one BSSw Fellow and one Honorable Mention, with the goal of expanding in future years to 2 or more BSSw Fellows and Honorable Mentions. The BSSw fellow will receive a stipend that can be used for various activities that promote improved scientific software, such as organizing a workshop or creating a tutorial. Both the BSSw fellow and the honorable mention receive travel support to work with scientific community members and form a cohort.The National Science Foundation (NSF) and DOE are leaders in advanced computing, pushing the growth of computational and data-enabled science and engineering as an essential driver of scientific and technological progress. Moreover, NSF and DOE researchers have developed a wide range of high-impact scientific software for advanced modeling, simulation, discovery, and analysis. The country faces a software crisis, however, due to disruptive changes in computer architectures and increasing complexity in next-generation computational science. NSF partnership in sponsoring the BSSw Fellowship Program will enable a more robust approach toward pioneering the future of advanced computing ecosystems in support of American leadership in science and engineering. An important element of the project is exploring the feasibility to expand the program to more fully address the NSF scientific community. The BSSw Fellowship Program enhances workforce development and pathways to the NSF and DOE software communities, though nurturing a network of people who advance software practices as a fundamental aspect of increasing overall scientific productivity.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.