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Open Source Initiative for Scientific Development Tools (preliminary phase)

Objectives

Several universities, research facilities and companies still use and develop Eclipse RCP applications to solve problems within a certain scientific scope. This page shall give an overview of existing applications. Moreover, it demonstrates that Eclipse applications are well suited for the needs of scientific research both in non-commercial/educational and commercial context. Hence, the intention is to enable a vivid scientific community within the Eclipse Foundation. The goals of such a working group and community are the following:

• To provide an infrastructure for interoparibility between various scientific applications
• To prevent reinventing the wheel over and over again
• To enable an interdisciplinary research and development
• To solve problems as a community and hence to lower the costs of development
• To inspire students and scientists to use and utilize open source software
• To help industrial partners to get better products

Roadmap

Goal of this initiative is to establish an Industry Working Group with a scientific scope. At the current stage, we're collecting projects and interested partners. The aim is to find as much interested parties as possible. A wide range of applications and needs allows us to create a common roadmap that fits the needs of all of its participants.

• Preliminary phase of collecting projects and partners (we are here)
• Commit to write a proposal to establish a Science IWG
• Start of an official Eclipse Industry Working Group
• Recruiting of new participants and industrial partners
• Being a proud part of the Eclipse Community
• Being curious of what's coming next

Organization and Contact

For more information, please contact:

• Philip Wenig "philip (dot) wenig (at) gmx (dot) net"
• Ralph Müller "ralph (dot) mueller (at) eclipse (dot) org"

Please subscribe to the mailing list to get the latest news and discussions:

Science IWG Mailing List

Alphabetical List of Open Source RCP Projects

• Atomic - Linguistics
• Bioclipse - Biology, Chemistry, Bioinformatics
• BioExtrac Biobank, Medical Research
• Bio7 - Ecological Modeling, Scientific Image Analysis, Statistical Analysis
• Control System Studio - Physics
• DAWN - Physics
• Elexis - Practice Management, EMR, Healthcare
• GDA - data acquisition software for science facilities such as neutron and x-ray sources
• GumTree - Physics
• KNIME - Data and Image Analysis in Chemistry and Biology
• Maltcms - Chemistry
• NiCE - Integrated Computational Environment for advanced modeling and simulation
• OpenChrom - Chemistry
• openMASP - Chemistry
• Passerelle - open workflow solution platform. Applied for data acquisition and control in synchrotron beamlines and similar facilities. Also integrated in DAWN for data analysis workflows.
• Remote Component Environment (RCE) - Workflow-driven integration environment; aerospace and transport research
• StatET - Integrated development environment (IDE) and GUI for R
• STEM - Epidemiology, Healthcare
• uDig - Geospatial Information System (GIS), hosted by the Eclipse Foundation's LocationTech working group which focuses on location aware technology.
• UOMo - Units of Measurement, UCUM (HL7)

Alphabetical List of Proprietary RCP Projects

• IDL Development Environment - Data visualisation
• Mathematica Workbench - Mathematics
• Nsight Eclipse edition - CUDA GPU development
• OpenflowSuite - Geology, Petroleum
• SIMA - Marine operations simulation

Nonbinding List of Interested Partners

• University of Hamburg - OpenChrom
• Diamond Light Source, ESRF - DAWN
• German Aerospace Center (DLR) - RCE
• Paul Scherrer Institute - DA+
• Diamond Light Source - GDA
• Tech'Advantage - OpenflowSuite
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory - NiCE
• iSencia - Passerelle
• Uppsala University - Bioclipse
• MARINTEK - SIMA

Alphabetical List of Miscellaneous Other Projects

• Elastic-R - Using R in the cloud
• Scientific Linux - Linux for Scientists
• RJ/RServi - Easy integration of R e.g. in RCP applications

Meeting Minutes, BoF EclipseCon 2013

• Target: Definition and Vision

• Contribution
  • 3D visualization, OpenGL Viewer
  • dynamic 2d visualiatzion, oscilloscope widget
  • model and mapper for graph models
  • access to Experiment Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS)
  • TeXmark algorithm for xygraph
  • 2d image viewing, histographic algorithms
  • tool system
  • slicing system, EP for slicing different ways of n-dimensional data
  • figures for selecting data
  • 3d and surface visualization
  • STEM: use of gis data visualization in form of shape files
  • Workflow systems - Integration barrier?

• Interested in
  • better visualization tools for 2d plots
  • jobs management, simulation management
  • periodic system classes, scientific constants
  • file bugs for swt xygraph
  • Matlab replacement designed by the working group
  • improve xy plotting functionality, work together to get this done
  • performant visualization for dynamic mesh
  • Funding for research projects
  • teaching exchange
  • state-of-the-art knowledge exchange

• Need
  • 3d rendering on huge 3d models
  • ISO surface renderer
• Dimensions/units -> UoMo

• Other
  • wrapping up algorithms and libraries to java and as eclipse bundles
  • matlab -> python it provides a broader set of scientific libraries
  • python integration, pydev
  • EASE
  • Rapidminer, Gridminer

• Contact
  • swtchart

• Distributed Execution
  • Remark: University Of Innsbruck

• 2D Plot, xygraph contribution
• Support for graphing algorithms
• Visualization - common visualization working group
• System Engineering - numerical part
• Crystal structures

• Conclusion

• Further steps