see also the Software Publications
Publications, Presentations, Selected Blog Posts
2023
- Lehnigk, R., Bruschewski, M., Huste, T., Lucas, D., Rehm, M. and Schlegel, F. (2023) Sustainable development of simulation setups and addons for OpenFOAM for nuclear reactor safety research. Kerntechnik. https://doi.org/10.1515/kern-2022-0107
2022
- Applications of Helmholtz AAI for FZJ IT-Forum, December 2022
- Aktueller Stand des Helmholtz Research Software Directory, 3. Helmholtz Open Science Forum: Forschungssoftware, online, November 2022, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7360386.
- The Research Software Directory in Helmholtz, The Research Software Directory: Improving the impact of research software, online, November 2022, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7347366.
- Integrated dataset placement service for scientists, IBERGRID 2022 Faro, October 2022. Preliminary version.
- Helmholtz Federated IT Services: Enabling innovative software and supporting services for research, IBERGRID 2022 Faro, October 2022. Preliminary version. Helmholtz Cloud and Helmholtz AAI for LRZ-DKRZ, October 2022
- Sichtbarkeit und FAIRness von Forschungssoftware erhöhen: das Research Software Directory, dini Workshop “Forschungssoftware managen”, Stuttgart, September 2022, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7083033.
- Scaling IT Services for Germany’s Largest Research Organisation - An Experience Report, DevOpsDays Berlin, September 2022.
- Recap: Workshop Let’s Talk FAIR for Research Software at SE2022, deRSE Blog post, June 2022.
- Research Software Development @Helmholtz, MPG Worskhop Future Opportunities for Software in Research (FORS2022), May 2022.
- Helmholtz AAI Info-Session, for HZB-IT, May 2022
- Helmholtz Digital Services for Science — Collaboration made easy., Helmholtz Open Science Forum Research Software, April 2022, DOI: 10.48440/os.helmholtz.045
- HIFIS: VO Federation for EFSS In 76. DFN Betriebstagung, March 2022
- Helmholtz Cloud Info-Session, HZB virtual IT-Open Office, March 2022
- From License Consultation to Software Spotlights, RDA Deutschland Conference, February 2022, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6248895.
- OpenSource im Spannungsfeld akademischer und wirtschaftlicher Interessen, Software Engineering Conference Deutschland (rSE22), February 2022.
- Helmholtz Federated IT Services: Innovative Cloud and Software Services for Science. In: Software Engineering (SE) 2022, Track rSE 22, February 2022.
- HIFIS: VO Federation for EFSS In CS3 2022 — Cloud Storage Synchronization and Sharing, January 2022.
2021
- HIFIS Survey 2021 Report, Blog Post, December 2021.
- Solutions for the Ages — a Short Crash Course on Sustainable Software Development. In: HIDA Annual Conference 2021, November 2021.
- Roles in Research Software Engineering (RSE) Consultancies. In: Research Software Engineers in HPC Workshop at SC21 (RSE-HPC-2021), November 2021.
- HIFIS: VO Federation for EFSS In: HEPiX Automn 2021 online Workshop, October 2021
- Helmholtz IT Services for Science: HIFIS In: HEPiX Automn 2021 online Workshop, October 2021
- Helmholtz AAI full presentation, in 75. DFN Betriebstagung, October 2021.
- Helmholtz Resonator Podcast on HIFIS. In Resonator-Podcast, October 2021
- Checkliste zur Unterstützung der Helmholtz-Zentren bei der Implementierung von Richtlinien für nachhaltige Forschungssoftware, September 2021.
- HIFIS: IT-Services für Helmholtz & Partner. In: DFN Mitteilungen, pp. 44–45, June 2021.
- Easy Diagram creation in Gitlab, Blog post, June 2021.
- Indikatoren für Open Science: Report des Helmholtz Open Science Forum, June 2021.
- Solutions for the Ages — a Short Crash Course on Sustainable Software Development. In: International Virtual Covid Data Challenge 2021, April 2021.
- Helmholtz AAI Update. Presentation on the role of Helmholtz AAI in the context of AARC, EOSC, and NFDI, April 2021.
- Workshop material Using Containers in Science, March 2021.
- Helmholtz Federated IT Services. In: National and International Trends in Research Storage at Scale, Open Storage Network Concept Paper, March 2021.
- Helmholtz AAI. Teaser talk, In: 74. DFN Betriebstagung, March 2021.
- HIFIS transfer service: FTS for Helmholtz. In: ISGC 2021 — International Symposium on Grids & Clouds, March 2021.
- HIFIS: Sync&Share Federation for Helmholtz. In: CS3 2021 — Cloud Storage Synchronization and Sharing, January 2021.
2020
- Digitale Dienste für die Wissenschaft — wohin geht die Reise?, December 2020
- German version: 10.5281/zenodo.4301924
- English version: 10.5281/zenodo.4301947
- HIFIS Software Survey 2020 Evaluation, Blog Post Series, Nov 2020-Jan 2021.
- Federated data storage for Helmholtz Research & Friends. In: National and International Trends in Research Storage at Scale, Open Storage Network, November 2020.
- HIFIS presentations at EGI conference (2-5 November 2020):
- Presentations of all major HIFIS working groups at the 2nd All-Hands HIFIS Meeting, October 2020.
- HIFIS backbone transfer service: FTS for everyone. In: HEPiX Autumn 2020 Online workshop, October 2020.
- Docker For Science, Blog post series, September 2020:
- HIFIS — Platform, Training and Support for a Sustainable Software Development. In: DLR Wissensaustausch-Workshop Software Engineering (WAW SE VII), September 2020.
- Zusammenarbeiten mit der Helmholtz-Cloud, Lichtblick Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, p. 4, September 2020.
- HZI-led Coronavirus Sero-Survey in collaboration with HIFIS, August 2020.
- Promoting IT based science at all levels. In: EGI Newsletter #37, June 2020.
- HIFIS suggestions and guidelines, Blog post series, May-June 2020.
- Summary of the Feedback Report of the Scientific Advisory Board, May 2020.
- S/MIME Signing Git Commits, Blog post, April 2020.
- The HIFIS Cloud Competence Cluster. In: CS3 2020 Workshop on Cloud Services for Synchronisation and Sharing, January 2020.
2019
- Presentations at the 1st HIFIS Conference, October 2019.
- Helmholtz Federated IT Services (HIFIS) — Creating Services together at Software Engineering and Reuse in Modeling, Simulation, and Data Analytics for Science and Engineering (SC 2019 BOF)
- HDF Cloud — Helmholtz Data Federation Cloud Resources at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre
- Integrierte Entwicklungs- und Publikationsumgebung für Forschungssoftware und Daten am Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)
- Anforderungen, Wünsche und Erfahrungen für den Aufbau des HIFIS Competence Clusters “Software Services” in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
- Continuous Documentation for Users, Developers and Maintainers
- Share and synchronize your data with HZB Cloud Nubes safely
Software Publications
HIFIS creates its own software packages, but also contributes to Open Source software in general.
Software Packages
2022
- Unattended-Upgrades Role for Ansible - Ansible role to set up unattended-upgrades on Debian-based systems.
- Ansible RSD role — Ansible role to set up the Research Software Directory.
2021
- HIFIS Surveyval — Python Package for analysing survey data.
- Ansible Netplan Role — Ansible role that installs Netplan and configures networking on hosts.
- Ansible SSH keys role — Ansible role to distribute authorized SSH public keys to users.
2020
- Ansible GitLab Role — Ansible role to install and configure the GitLab Omnibus package, also in a high availability context.
- Ansible Keepalived Role — Ansible role that sets up Keepalived for high availabilty.
- Ansible Redis Role — Ansible role for setting up a highly available Redis cluster.
- Ansible HAProxy role — Ansible role to set up HAProxy to be used as a load balancer.
- Ansible GitLab-Runner role — Ansible role for deploying GitLab-Runner (optimized for Openstack).
- GitLab-Runner for Power — GitLab-Runner packages for the
ppc64learchitecture.
Contributions
2022
- Molecule Podman Plugin - Fix missing playbooks in the PyPI wheel
- Kira Dependencies Bot:
- Ansible Role Certbot — Fix snap symlink task failing in initial dry-run
- Ansible Role Docker — Fix docker-compose update
2021
- Gitleaks — Fix example in leaky-repo.toml
- Ansible (community.general) — Fix HAProxy draining
- Ansible Collection Hardening:
- Ansible Role Elasticsearch — Stop plugin install to fail in check mode