US Research Software Sustainability Institute
URSSI's mission is to improve the recognition , development, and use of software for a more sustainable research enterprise.
Learn more about our mission and vision
URSSI's mission is to improve the recognition , development, and use of software for a more sustainable research enterprise.
Learn more about our mission and visionKeep up to date with URSSI's new activities
Doing interesting research can be hard, and having to carefully curate a complex software stack of tools by hand or debug why your software environment broke when it worked two days ago can make it even harder. Luckily, we don’t have to make research harder than it needs to be!
Scientific researchers need reproducible software environments for complex applications that can run across heterogeneous computing platforms. We now have modern tools for creating fully reproducible hardware accelerated software environments for machine learning workflows (and other scientific applications that use CUDA) that use high level semantics aimed at researchers!
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Do you want your science, research, and software to be open and accessible? Do you use or develop software in your research? Do you have some foundational skills and would like to build on and expand them?
If this sounds like you, then you might be interested in the upcoming Summer School in Open Science and Research Software Engineering. In August 2025 we will be hosting a five-day workshop on open science and research software engineering at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and organized in collaboration with the Alaska Satellite Facility and the Geophysical Institute.
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Stay tuned for upcoming announcements on workshops, training events, conferences and more.
As we get started on the institue, we have launched a series of core projects to improve the sustaniability of research software and the people who produce it.
This EAGER project will investigate the development and maintenance of software produced in research projects funded by the National Science Foundation. The goals of this project are: 1 To understand what factors influence software sustainability by gathering data from grant-funded research projects; 2 To describe current models of sustainability planning and suggest potential new models that could increase the likelihood of achieving long-term software sustainability; and 3 To develop new …
As part of a set of connected activities under the banner of the US Research Software Sustainability Institute, this grant funds an effort by Kyle Niemeyer, Associate Professor of mechanical engineering at Oregon State University, to develop and run four, weeklong “beyond introductory” winter/summer schools for researchers who want to deepen their software engineering skills. Beyond directly training researchers in sustainable software development, Niemeyer will develop, hone, and release a …
Welcome to “Charting the Course: Policy and Planning for Sustainable Research Software,” a Sloan Foundation-funded project dedicated to supporting the future of research software through evidence-informed policy work. This section will help you stay updated with our latest news, research, and community engagement activities.
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