Scientific Software. Scientific computing includes the specialized software applications used on scientific workstations, servers, or other equipment such as software used to control the attached laboratory equipment; specialized data analysis software; and interfaces to a variety of specialized scientific and lab equipment. These applications include such “routine” items such as Microsoft Office, SAS, R, Adobe Acrobat as well as data analysis and scientific software. The variety and number of specific titles and versions makes it challenging to list here. The requirements change rapidly; sometimes major software versions and titles are changed in the same year, often, more than one time. The Vendor will be required to be agile and responsive in their response to the changing scientific computing and servicing requirements as they are presented. The FDA mission, and the scientific nature of the mission and specific mission goals require the FDA scientists to follow the changes and technologies as they emerge or are presented by their research peers. Cloud First is one of our guiding principles for FDA’s applications. All cloud solutions per HHS are required to be FEDRAMP’d. Using the EPLC process and an agile methodology the developer will utilize the existing FDA’s SaaS and PaaS environments. The developers will use these environments and follow the governance for the development, test and operational environments. SaaS and PaaS applications will utilize the native language of the platforms and only were approved by FDA can develop custom coding. Interfaces between components and other legacy systems will use existing APIs first and if not available will be create and published for FDA development community re-use. FDA Change Management, Release Management, Configuration Management and DevOps processes and tools will be followed as standard SaaS and PaaS practices. Cloud computing is a model that allows universal, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of IT resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be disbursed quickly with ease due to minimal management effort or assistance by the service provider. CFSAN Advanced & Scientific Computing provides cloud services to CFSAN laboratories working to collaborate with non-FDA partners. This service leverages the available cloud resources provided to FDA users by OIMT. Such services include: • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): o Amazon Web Services (AWS): Utilizing AWS can provi...
Scientific Software. Scientific software is that software used for processing raw instrument data into scientific data.
