This document summarizes a planning workshop on Climate Computing and Applied Software Research. The workshop aims to develop a community of practice around software and climate change by exploring new ways of collaboration. It brings together organizers from various universities, climate model experts from NASA and Argonne National Laboratory, and software researchers from UC Davis and Tsinghua University. The agenda involves climate scientists presenting their major software problems, and software researchers discussing potential contributions with their techniques to help climate computing. The workshop also discusses future workshops to sustain this collaboration.

1. CCASR
Planning workshop on
Climate Computing and Applied Software Research

2. Introductions
•Organizers:
• Jon
Pipitone,
U.
Toronto
• Neil
Ernst,
U.
Toronto
• Steve
Easterbrook,
U.
Toronto
• Jorge
Aranda,
U.
Victoria
•Climate
model
experts:
• Tom
Clune,
NASA
GSFC
Software
Integration
and
Visualization
Office
• Robert
Jacob,
Argonne
N.L.
• Jay
Larson,
Argonne
N.L.
•Software
researchers:
• Abram
Hindle,
UC
Davis
• He
Zhang,
Tsinghua
U.,
Beijing
(via
email)

3. Workshop Objective
•Develop
a
community
of
practice
around
software
and
climate
change
•
Need
a
strong
applied
software
research
community
that
can
contribute
to
the
efforts
of
climate
scientists,
policy
makers,
and
the
general
public.
•Explore
new
ways
of
collaborating
and
working
in
the
software
research
community
• Having
to
travel
to
go
to
a
workshop
is
unsustainable
and
exclusionary,
workshop
papers
are
hard
to
republish,
and
presentations
are
unfortunately
often
dull
and
unproductive.

4. Workshop agenda
•Brief
introduction
•Climate
scientists
present
their
major
requirements/problems
• Q:
what is the major software pain point from your POV?
•Software
researchers
discuss
possible
contributions
• Q:
what
software
technique
do
you
think
can
help
climate
computing?
•Discussion
about
future
workshops