scholarly journals Open Source Technical Support: A Look at Peer Help-Giving

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Singh ◽  
M.B. Twidale ◽  
D. Rathi
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Technical Support ◽  
Help Giving ◽  
Peer Help

Open source integrated library systems migration: Librarians share the lessons learnt

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 346-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vandana Singh
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Research Team ◽  
The United States ◽  
Technical Support ◽  
Adaptation Process ◽  
Migration Process ◽  
Lessons Learnt

To better understand how libraries experience the process of migrating to open source software integrated library systems (OSS ILSs), nine librarians from libraries of multiple types and sizes were interviewed. All these libraries are in the United States and these librarians had participated in surveys and interviews about open source software integrated library systems with the research team in past years and at the time of the interview were at different stages of migration to open source software integrated library systems, from contemplating migration to completed migration. The librarians answered questions about their open source software integrated library systems on topics such as the migration process, technical support, adaptation process, and lessons and advice from the overall experience. The in-depth responses provide valuable insights on the process of migration to help libraries understand the challenges and benefits of open source software integrated library systems and are presented in this paper.

scholarly journals Inastemp: A Novel Intrinsics-as-Template Library for Portable SIMD-Vectorization

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Berenger Bramas
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Technical Support ◽  
Floating Point ◽  
Scientific Applications ◽  
Performance Study ◽  
Template Library ◽  
Optimized Code

The development of scientific applications requires highly optimized computational kernels to benefit from modern hardware. In recent years, vectorization has gained key importance in exploiting the processing capabilities of modern CPUs, whose evolution is characterized by increasing register-widths and core numbers, but stagnating clock frequencies. In particular, vectorization allows floating point operations to be performed at a higher rate than the processor’s frequency. However, compilers often fail to vectorize complex codes and pure assembly/intrinsic implementations often suffer from software engineering issues, such as readability and maintainability. Moreover, it is difficult for domain scientists to write optimized code without technical support. To address these issues, we propose Inastemp, a lightweight open-source C++ library. Inastemp offers a solution to develop hardware-independent computational kernels for the CPU. These kernels are portable across compilers and floating point precision and vectorized targeting SSE(3,4.1,4.2), AVX(2), AVX512, or ALTIVEC/VMX instructions. Inastemp provides advanced features, such as an if-else statement that vectorizes branches that cannot be removed. Our performance study shows that Inastemp has the same efficiency as pure intrinsic approaches on modern architectures. As side-results, this study provides micro benchmarks on the latest HPC architectures for three different computational kernels, emphasizing comparisons between scalar and intrinsic-based codes.

Expectations versus experiences: librarians using open source integrated library systems

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 688-709 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vandana Singh
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Technical Support ◽  
Adoption Process ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Open Source Systems ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Insight Into

Purpose – This paper compares the technical support-related experiences with the expectations of librarians using open source Integrated Library Systems (ILS). Design/methodology/approach – A combination of surveys and triangulating interviews was conducted to obtain the results presented. Findings – The results of this study indicate that there are many channels of technical support available to librarians who use open source ILS. Also, these channels of technical support perform at acceptable levels according to the expectations of librarians using open source software. Research limitations/implications – The results presented in this study are self-reported expectations and experiences of librarians and not observed experiences. Practical implications – The results from this study will provide an insight to librarians contemplating adoption or migration to open source ILS. The results presented here will be useful in decision-making as well as developing a strategy for technical support based on the presented options. Originality/value – The interest in open source ILS has been observed and studied in the last decade, but the technical support of open source systems, which is a critical component of the adoption process, has not received much attention. This paper focuses specifically on the technical support for open source ILS and provides insight into the experiences of librarians.

scholarly journals Specify Collections Consortium–Building Durable Infrastructure

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. e26860
Author(s):  
James Beach
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Technical Support ◽  
Software Project ◽  
University Of Kansas ◽  
Advisory Committees ◽  
Software Products ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
The University ◽  
The U.S

The Specify Software Project (www.specifysoftware.org) has been funded by the University of Kansas and with grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation for 20 years. In 2018, the effort is pivoting from a grant-funded project to a community-supported effort through the establishment of a consortium of biological collection institutions. Specify Collection Consortium software products will remain open source and free to download and use. Consortium membership benefits will include access to technical support services and seats on the Board of Directors and advisory committees, groups that will determine priorities for future products, platform capabilities, and technical support services. In 2017 and 2018, we have been engaged in organizational planning and development–modeling the Specify Collections Consortium on examples of viable open source and open access consortia in other research communities. Founding members of the Consortium in the U.S. include the University of Michigan, University of Florida, and University of Kansas. The Consortium's mission will be to support collections institutions in mobilizing data from their holdings to broader biological and computational initiatives to advance collections-based research, while facilitating efficient data curation and collection management. We will provide an update on our progress with the Consortium's development and highlight new capabilities and integration features of the Specify 6 & 7 software platforms.

Open Source

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fadi P. Deek ◽  
James A. M. McHugh
Keyword(s):  
Open Source

Counseling, Guidance, and the Morality of Help-Giving

1971 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 203-206
Author(s):  
MICHAEL J. PATTON
Keyword(s):  
Help Giving
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document