ESA Phi-week 28 September - 02 October 2020, a Virtual Event focusing on the Digital Twin Earth.

From the ESA Phi-week homepage at https://phiweek.esa.int/history

Objectives

Septmeber 23-25 the symposium on Global Collaboraation on data beyond Disciplines is arranged. Further information on the symposium is provided at https://ds.rois.ac.jp/article/dsws_2020/.

Many users are not familiar with the command line interfaces used by most *nix based systems. These systems are the backbone of scientific programming and storage systems. Windows user may want to have a look at this article in order to work with the storage resources within Sigma2 NIRD for a graphical user interface.

A challenge to scientists writing software to do their science was published in Nature recently. Please check out the Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run? at https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02462-7. The paper has many good reflections that are useful for scientists chosing how to work with software.