Scientific libraries and tools have been developed for decades, providing value to the scientific community, primarily via distinct and independent efforts. PESO provides a mechanism to bring these efforts together, to provide a more coherent and comprehensive set of capabilities to the scientific community. By providing a curated portfolio of high-quality scientific libraries and tools, PESO will enable accelerated scientific advances for applications that can depend upon the capabilities we provide. PESO will also provide a mechanism for the scientific community to engage with the developers of these libraries and tools, to provide feedback and to influence the direction of the development of these capabilities. PESO will also provide a mechanism for the scientific community to engage with the developers of these libraries and tools, to provide feedback and to influence the direction of the development of these capabilities.
The PESO Project is led by the leadership team from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Software Technology (ST) Focus Area and by the key technical leaders of the Spack project, the E4S, and the Software Development Toolkits (SDKs).
As part of ECP efforts, we have facilitated the efforts of about 250 scientists from DOE labs, universities, and partner commercial software companies to create a first-of-a-kind software ecosystem for scientific software sponsored by DOE. The team has also been heavily involved in the IDEAS Project, the Better Scientific Software (BSSw) project, Sustainable Research Pathways (SRP), and more, as part of creating a vibrant community around the productive and sustainable creation and use of software to advance scientific discovery in service of the DOE mission.
PESO intends to participate in the extension and expansion of software-ecosystem sustainment toward the continuation of the success that ECP has started.