About SoftEng
The Software Engineering Group ( SoftEng ) is part of the Computational Science and Engineering Department of the Science and Technology Facilities Council and is based in Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
SoftEng has been involved in the development of numerical software for computational physics and the deployment of software engineering techniques for many years.
Its current research and development focus is on the use of advanced but pragmatic software engineering techniques to improve software quality and productivity in computational science and engineering.
Current Activities
- CCPForge - Administration, Maintenance and Development
- EURACE - An agent-based software platform for European economic policy design
- Software Engineering Support Programme
- Technology and software for agent-based simulations
Latest news
- EPSRC Review of CCP_ABM Statement of Needs The CCP_ABM Statement of Needs was submitted in December. We now know that EPSRC will be reviewing all the Statements ... Posted on Dec. 15, 2010
- Proposal for a new Collaborative Computation Project (CCP) on agent-based modelling Recently EPSRC has made a call for UK communities to make a "Statement of Needs" concerning their research area. At ... Posted on Sept. 10, 2010
Latest blog posts
- Collaborations Workshop At the Collaborations Workshop organised by Software sustainability Institute. Web site: http://www.software.ac.uk/home/cw11 Twitter hashtag #cw11. (You could try #cw2011 for something completely different.)
- Revision Control Systems on CCPForge CCPForge offers a range of revision control systems for projects. This post aims to shed some light on the choices and where to go for further information.
Latest publication
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Running FLAME On OPL (Fujitsu PRIMERGY) - Notes on Porting and Performance Benchmarks
This report documents the process of installing the FLAME Framework on a 432-core Fujitsu PRIMERGY machine. It also discusses the expected performance of a test model and presents results of ...
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