A Survey of Computational Tools in Solar Physics

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dc.contributor.authorBobra, Monica G.en
dc.contributor.authorMumford, Stuart J.en
dc.contributor.authorHewett, Russell J.en
dc.contributor.authorChriste, Steven D.en
dc.contributor.authorReardon, Kevinen
dc.contributor.authorSavage, Sabrinaen
dc.contributor.authorIreland, Jacken
dc.contributor.authorPereira, Tiago M. D.en
dc.contributor.authorChen, Binen
dc.contributor.authorPerez-Suarez, Daviden
dc.contributor.departmentMathematicsen
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-05T14:13:20Zen
dc.date.available2021-01-05T14:13:20Zen
dc.date.issued2020-04-20en
dc.description.abstractThe SunPy Project developed a 13-question survey to understand the software and hardware usage of the solar-physics community. Of the solar-physics community, 364 members across 35 countries responded to our survey. We found that 99 +/- 0.5 of respondents use software in their research and 66% use the Python scientific-software stack. Students are twice as likely as faculty, staff scientists, and researchers to use Python rather than Interactive Data Language (IDL). In this respect, the astrophysics and solar-physics communities differ widely: 78% of solar-physics faculty, staff scientists, and researchers in our sample uses IDL, compared with 44% of astrophysics faculty and scientists sampled by Momcheva and Tollerud (2015). 63 +/- 4 of respondents have not taken any computer-science courses at an undergraduate or graduate level. We also found that most respondents use consumer hardware to run software for solar-physics research. Although 82% of respondents work with data from space-based or ground-based missions, some of which (e.g. the Solar Dynamics Observatory and Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope) produce terabytes of data a day, 14% use a regional or national cluster, 5% use a commercial cloud provider, and 29% use exclusively a laptop or desktop. Finally, we found that 73 +/- 4 of respondents cite scientific software in their research, although only 42 +/- 3 do so routinely.en
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-020-01622-2en
dc.identifier.eissn1573-093Xen
dc.identifier.issn0038-0938en
dc.identifier.issue4en
dc.identifier.other57en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/101738en
dc.identifier.volume295en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectInstrumentation and data managementen
dc.titleA Survey of Computational Tools in Solar Physicsen
dc.title.serialSolar Physicsen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
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