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。该项目使NSF能够合作赞助BSSw奖学金计划并参与管理该计划。该项目在NSF的一名BSSw研究员和一名荣誉奖的支持下试点了一年。该奖项扩大了NSF对该计划的参与，每年支持三名BSSw研究员和三名荣誉奖，为期两年，与能源部提供的支持水平相同。每位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，例如组织研讨会或创建教程。所有BSSw研究员和荣誉奖获得者都获得旅行支持，与科学界成员一起工作并形成一个队列。NSF和DOE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驱动力。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。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 enables NSF to collaborate in sponsorship of the BSSw Fellowship Program and participate in managing the program. The project was piloted for one year with NSF support of one BSSw Fellow and one Honorable Mention. This award expands NSF's participation in the program to support three BSSw Fellows and three Honorable Mentions each year for two years, the same level of support provided by DOE. Each 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. All BSSw fellows and honorable mentions receive travel support to work with scientific community members and form a cohort.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. 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.