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NERSC 3 Greenbook

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Scientific Applications: User Developed

 Many ER scientists utilize in-house developed applications to do their science. The recent down-size of all federally funded research efforts has strengthened the push to do better science at a reduced cost. Currently redundant efforts are funded, as they should be, because this allows different scientists and disciplines to investigate the same or similar problems thus expanding the scientific knowledge base. The cost reduction efforts include the reduction of some of this redundancy and minimizing reinvention of the same tools and methods. The NERSC facility should provide resources to share these in-house developed applications in addition to software repositories that research disciplines want to establish. Sharing the application software to others helps meet the cost reduction goals outlined here and also enables more robust application software. New users to any software suite uncover bugs and design limitations of that software.