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The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) aims to be a connector of cyberinfrastructure (CI) resources, software, and services. By bringing together advanced digital infrastructure, expert support, and training services, XSEDE enables scholars, researchers, and engineers to participate in multidisciplinary collaborations while seamlessly accessing advanced computing resources and sharing data to tackle society’s grand challenges.
To realize this vision, XSEDE must both enable and participate in a software ecosystem, and must collectively engage with software developers, integrators, vendors, users, and funding agencies to gather requirements; develop, share, and deploy software tools; and provide software documentation, training, and support.
To enable community collaboration and accelerate connecting new resources, software, and service into CI, XSEDE recently introduced the Community Software Repository (CSR): a single interface to the tools and information used by XSEDE to plan, document, and organize its software-related services and features.
This paper describes the CSR vision and strategy, current capabilities, future plans, and related XSEDE efforts.