Programming for the Planet

Opening with @neurocy.bsky.social explaining the 'working group' model we're doing for the 3rd PROPL

Mark Piper works with @csdms.bsky.social to do atmospheric science and promote open source software. They focus on model coupling which is crucial to building ensembles of climate predictions. The BMI is a language agnostic, self-describing and extensible method to use for this

Opening with @neurocy.bsky.social explaining the 'working group' model we're doing for the 3rd PROPL

"Mind the gap" applies to science says @dorchard.bsky.social: code has an abstract model that's lost on the way to getting results. Why don't we communicate via the code? Programming languages are *too* general purpose to help here. Names have no intrinsic meaning in PLs but are helpful to humans.

Opening with @neurocy.bsky.social explaining the 'working group' model we're doing for the 3rd PROPL

@dorchard.bsky.social advertises the @iccs.bsky.social 'hacktoberfest' to collaborate with people on climate science projects; sign up later this year!

Opening with @neurocy.bsky.social explaining the 'working group' model we're doing for the 3rd PROPL

Enzyme is useful in real climate problems like the shallow water equations. It saves both execution time and storage costs by smart checkpointing in the compiler pipeline and can run for large tasks. Scientists don't write TPU code typically, but code can be compiled using a parallel.for in Enzyme

Opening with @neurocy.bsky.social explaining the 'working group' model we're doing for the 3rd PROPL

Next William S. Moses talks about an enormously ambitious compiler-first planetary compute engine! How can we automatically differentiate in a performance portable Earth System Modeling engine? agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... - Core problem is differentiation is compute intensive

Opening with @neurocy.bsky.social explaining the 'working group' model we're doing for the 3rd PROPL

Since it's a big storage system, stability is super important for a cloud-native weather format. Public providers are moving to it, for example for weather forecasts and cloud data. It supports 'virtual' datasets built from piles of other data so you can compose vast datasets via 'symlinking'

Opening with @neurocy.bsky.social explaining the 'working group' model we're doing for the 3rd PROPL

Oceanography has an inspiring history of open source from the 90s zenodo.org/records/1061... but more sophisticated ideas and services never built a network effect and so we've ended up with 'standard compliant self-describing metadata-rich piles of files'

Opening with @neurocy.bsky.social explaining the 'working group' model we're doing for the 3rd PROPL

Deepak's a great example of someone who wouldn't ordinarily attend @sigplan-pldi.bsky.social; he's a 'professional scientist' who has worked on terabyte scale oceanic models, and now maintains important scientific infrastructure like xarray

Opening with @neurocy.bsky.social explaining the 'working group' model we're doing for the 3rd PROPL

We need to get out into the wider world and consider the incentive structures for who will actually use these systems. The benefits of this new structure cannot just go towards those regions that don't need it help.

Opening with @neurocy.bsky.social explaining the 'working group' model we're doing for the 3rd PROPL

While there are many digital commons out there for scientific data, the future digital commons must also *compute* using FAIR principles, says @neurocy.bsky.social doi.org/10.1145/3759...

Opening with @neurocy.bsky.social explaining the 'working group' model we're doing for the 3rd PROPL

There are clear roles for computer scientists to have a role in managing planetary health, and we can win! #propl26

The 2nd PROPL is today, and will be livestreaming from www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIRJ... in an hour! Full program here conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-sp... and an overview of the program at dl.acm.org/action/showF...

Michael Dales is up speaking about Yirgacheffe, a declarative library for geospatial python dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1... #icfpsplash25

The 2nd PROPL is today, and will be livestreaming from www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIRJ... in an hour! Full program here conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-sp... and an overview of the program at dl.acm.org/action/showF...

Aadi Seth is back on stage demonstrating the STACD dataflow pipeline for resource planning #icfpsplash25

The 2nd PROPL is today, and will be livestreaming from www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIRJ... in an hour! Full program here conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-sp... and an overview of the program at dl.acm.org/action/showF...

Lots of languages in Chinmayi’s talk; climate models in Fortran, with an OCaml static analyser for C to bridge these worlds without losing model fidelity #icfpsplash25

The 2nd PROPL is today, and will be livestreaming from www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIRJ... in an hour! Full program here conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-sp... and an overview of the program at dl.acm.org/action/showF...

Chinmayi Baramashetru on the diverging architectures of climate models and how they could interoperate #icfpsplash25

The 2nd PROPL is today, and will be livestreaming from www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIRJ... in an hour! Full program here conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-sp... and an overview of the program at dl.acm.org/action/showF...

@neurocy.bsky.social defines the core problem as bad defaults in scientific code tools like Jupyter that make it hard to be FAIR without lots of work #icfpsplash25

The 2nd PROPL is today, and will be livestreaming from www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIRJ... in an hour! Full program here conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-sp... and an overview of the program at dl.acm.org/action/showF...

@patrick.sirref.org shows us a sneak preview of his new “shelter” shell that permits reuse and replay of command fragments to go back and forward in time! #icfpsplash25

The 2nd PROPL is today, and will be livestreaming from www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIRJ... in an hour! Full program here conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-sp... and an overview of the program at dl.acm.org/action/showF...

@patrick.sirref.org up next discussing the essence of scientific programming: what does it even mean? #icfpsplash25

The 2nd PROPL is today, and will be livestreaming from www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIRJ... in an hour! Full program here conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-sp... and an overview of the program at dl.acm.org/action/showF...

Roly Perera telling us about @f.luid.org which tracks data provenance and enriches web outputs with this richer context #icfpsplash25

The 2nd PROPL is today, and will be livestreaming from www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIRJ... in an hour! Full program here conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-sp... and an overview of the program at dl.acm.org/action/showF...

The first session had an overview of programming challenges in biodiversity, climate science and data management! #icfpsplash25

The 2nd PROPL is today, and will be livestreaming from www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIRJ... in an hour! Full program here conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-sp... and an overview of the program at dl.acm.org/action/showF...