SCOS presents its first results at the ANR ITC annual congress

Paris, 07/11/2007. SCOS represented its first outputs at the ITC annual congress of the French national research agency (ANR). Among 152 conferences were hold during 3 days in Paris in congress center of the “Cité des Sciences”.

The SCOS team presented its first results during these 3 days on its booth, and Alban Schmutz, the SCOS project leader, hold a lecture on “Interoperability: ground material for numerical simulation”.
 

Results and demonstrator on the booth

On its booth, SCOS presented to congress members its way of standardization for scientific computing software. Resulting of a one-year work of the 22-partners consortium, this methodology is based on a non-intrusive approach for developers and users. Rules established are ranked in 3 types of criteria: technical (1), informational (2) and strategic (3). The first version of the interoperability rules will be officially presented in the following weeks.
Software respecting criteria will be granted of a SCOS label.

A pre-prototype of the V3D software developed by the consortium to provide an Open Source architecture for remote collaborative scientific visualization was also presented on the booth. This presentation was very successful, and interested many potential users of this software tool to link it with their business software.

New committers to SCOS targets

During its conference, Alban Schmutz, SCOS project leader and CEO of Oxalya, presented a market and usage analysis for scientific applications: increasing size of data, multi-scale, multi-physics, remote collaboration, etc. Taking into account all these new challenges in the scientific world, SCOS proposes a new frame of interoperability, making sense for any scientific community.

Some global analysis has also been provided on scientific software durability and strategic strength. Over 200 software have been evaluated through 19 economic, strategic and environmental criteria established by the consortium, and only 15 get more than 20/38, including closed and Open Source software. The consortium will publish the full document of the first analysis by the end of 2007.

“Sharing our analysis and some first results outside of the consortium is very important to us” says Alban Schmutz, SCOS project leader ”it helps us to reach our goal to make our work a common base of discussion and analysis through the very diverse scientific communities”. The SCOS participation to this “Grand Colloque STIC” of the ANR was therefore a great success.

More information: "Grand Colloque STIC" website