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Science WG
Open Source Initiative for Scientific Development Tools (preliminary phase)
Contents
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)
- Get together at the EclipseCon 2013 in Boston?
- 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"
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Alphabetical List of Open Source RCP Projects
- Atomic - Linguistics
- Bioclipse - Biology, Chemistry, Bioinformatics
- Bio7 - Ecological Modeling, Scientific Image Analysis, Statistical Analysis
- Control System Studio - Physics
- DAWN - Physics
- 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
- Remote Component Environment (RCE) - Workflow-driven integration environment; aerospace and transport research
- STEM - Epidemiology
- uDig - Geology
Alphabetical List of Proprietary RCP Projects
- IDL Development Environment - Data visualisation
- Mathematica Workbench - Mathematics
- Nsight Eclipse edition - CUDA GPU development
- OpenflowSuite - Geology, Petroleum
Nonbinding List of Interested Partners
- University of Hamburg - OpenChrom
- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility - Dawn
- German Aerospace Center (DLR) - RCE
- Paul Scherrer Institute - DA+
- Diamond Light Source - GDA
- Tech'Advantage - OpenflowSuite
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory - NiCE
Alphabetical List of Miscellaneous Other Projects
- Elastic-R - Using R in the cloud
- Scientific Linux - Linux for Scientists