The RECORD platform aims to mobilize IT tools and mathematics in the context of modeling and simulating agroecosystems and ecological systems. The objective is to support agronomist and ecologists modellers in the implementation of solutions for computerization and simulation of their models. The actions proposed by the platform are the following:
- Support in the development and maintenance of simulators
- Deployment of simulator based application
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Packaging simulators and software tools for simulation (packages conda and R, containerization with docker and Singularity)
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Provision of simulators through the Internet according to approaches SaaS, such as workflows Galaxy, web services (REST API), web applications (for example RShiny for vizualisation purposes).
- Mobilization of HPC (high-performance computing) for simulation
- Support in the use of formal methods to study numerical models
- Mobilization of formal methods for sensitivy analyses and calibration of numerical models.
The agents of the RECORD platform mobilize tools facilitating the collaborative development and the dissemination of their work (intensive use of forges) and focuse on the quality and reproducibility of their realization (code versioning, containerization, continuous integration / continuous develoment, infrastructure as code …).
RECORD is based on a team of engineers of the MathNum department of INRAE. Team members also have responsibilities in various networks and projects related to the activities of the platform:
- Devlopment team of the forgeMIA Gitlab forge. RECORD engineers rely on this forge for most of their projects.
- Committee bureau of the Mexico network. This network facilitates the sharing of skills and experience around methods for exploring numerical models.
- The STICS project team. The crop model STICS is mobilized in many projects of the platform.