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Re:Epidemics Plugin for the UG4 software by jonaz3d on Friday November 26, 2021 @06:50AM (#29349399)
Hello World!

It appears the EpidemicsRunner software toolkit has been made open source. It was developed by a crossfunctional team of the German Goethe Center for Scientific Computation Universität and has apparently been used in real life settings as guidance tool.

Images, description and source code can be found on https://github.com/devanshr/epidemics

The EpidemicsRunner allows the user to run various algorithms used in epidemiologial modeling. The main feature is its in build editor and support an optimization framework, which allows the user to adjust model parameters to existing data.

It has been designed for ease of use (but still full of features) because its original purpose was as a quick response tool for e.g. local authorities. The vision: A non expert user can quickly generate various scenarios based on local data and decide local measures until expert knowledge arrives.

The tool has been used in various capacities. In order to inspire learning and maybe even help others, it has been made open source.

You can use and modify it however you want. You can also import only the headers to your own C++ program.

If you want to use the GUI, a build script is provided in the EpidemicsRunner folder. All features of the GUI are active if you put it in the plugin folder of the UG4 framework.

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Re:Epidemics Plugin for the UG4 software by Conan_Kudo on Friday November 26, 2021 @08:35AM (#29350065)
There's no license on the codebase, could someone add an OSI-approved license to this codebase? UG4 itself is LGPLv3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.en.html), so licensing this under the same terms would make sense.
Re:Epidemics Plugin for the UG4 software by jonaz3d on Friday November 26, 2021 @08:50AM (#29350161)
A license will be added soon and will be probably very permissive
Re:Epidemics Plugin for the UG4 software by balaji1 on Friday November 26, 2021 @12:19PM (#29352064)
This is great. First visible commit is on Mar 12th. The front-end is HTML? Hope we start to see more gov apps being built as web apps hosted in the cloud. With WebAssembly, the C++ code should be usable directly.
Re:Epidemics Plugin for the UG4 software by freemint on Friday November 26, 2021 @08:31AM (#29350038)
Thank you for making public money sponsored code public.

If you don't mind why was the software written in C++?

Re:Epidemics Plugin for the UG4 software by brezelgoring on Friday November 26, 2021 @09:49AM (#29350665)
I don't mean any disrespect by asking this, but asking why this was done in C++ implies you believe some other option would have been better; or at least it gives me that impression. What language should this have been done in, in your opinion?
Re:Epidemics Plugin for the UG4 software by jonaz3d on Friday November 26, 2021 @08:49AM (#29350158)
The code was written in C++ because of performance considerations of the ODE solvers.
Re:Epidemics Plugin for the UG4 software by DreamWalker1 on Friday November 26, 2021 @12:17PM (#29352050)
Does it mean you tried something like python or r and discovered that it was to slow?
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Re:Epidemics Plugin for the UG4 software by dang on Friday November 26, 2021 @12:16PM (#29352042)
Would you please stop breaking the site guidelines? We ban accounts that keep doing this, and you've been doing it repeatedly.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Re:Epidemics Plugin for the UG4 software by junon on Friday November 26, 2021 @08:52AM (#29350173)
Curious, where in the German government is this used? RKI or BMG perhaps?