Edinburgh Data-Intensive Research - Seismology

Supporting Collaborative Scientific Workflow Development:The Dispel Information Registry

Iraklis.Klampanos — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:35:55 +0000

Presentation Type:

talk

Large-scale distributed workflow systems for science are nowadays expected to operate in a consistent, predictable way as well as to promote collaboration between researchers or within groups in a unified way. In this talk we will discuss the VERCE Information Registry, which is designed to provide a consistent view of the VERCE ecosystem for seismology along with related architectural requirements, assumptions and interactions with other components.

Attachment	Size
Registry-OSDC13.pdf	1.65 MB

Date and time:

Thursday, 20 June, 2013 - 11:40

Location:

Open Science Data Cloud Workshop 2013, Edinburgh, UK

Web site:

Projects:

VERCE

Research topics:

Collaborative environments

Data-intensive computing

Efficient distributed systems

Seismology

The VERCE Architecture for Data-Intensive Seismology

Iraklis.Klampanos — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:32:30 +0000

Speaker(s):

Iraklis.Klampanos

Presentation Type:

talk

Typical of the digital revolution, seismology is changing rapidly: the number of deployed seismometers grows rapidly, their performance and connectivity improve and seismologists employ data from other sources, such as LIDAR, satellite images and GPS. But their computational behavior is also changing: they used to just focus on earthquakes, today the use all of the continuous waveform. Just what does this mean for the science and the computational infrastructure to support it? The VERCE project is pioneering this approach and will provide examples during the talk.

Attachment	Size
osdc-verce.pdf	1.97 MB

Date and time:

Wednesday, 19 June, 2013 - 11:00

Location:

Open Science Data Cloud Workshop 2013, Edinburgh, UK

Projects:

VERCE

Research topics:

Data-intensive computing

Seismology

The VERCE Architecture for Data-Intensive Seismology

Iraklis.Klampanos — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:16:29 +0000

Speaker(s):

Iraklis.Klampanos

Presentation Type:

talk

One of the main objectives of the VERCE project (Virtual Earthquake and Seismology Research Community in Europe) is to provide scientists with a unified, Europe-wide, computing environment able to support data-intensive scientific computation. This talk will be mainly about our approach to designing and building this infrastructure. More specifically, I will present the current computing environment, the rationale for designing our solutions around the workflow paradigm as well as the basic components of the architecture and their interactions. I will conclude with research challenges we have encountered and how we propose to address them in the short- and longer-term.

Attachment	Size
cisa_2013-06-10.pdf	1.99 MB

Date and time:

Monday, 10 June, 2013 - 14:00

Location:

CISA Seminar, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK

Web site:

Projects:

VERCE

Research topics:

Collaborative environments

Data-intensive computing

Efficient distributed systems

Seismology

VERCE WP9-JRA2: Architecture Components and Perspectives

Malcolm.Atkinson — Wed, 01 May 2013 15:13:44 +0000

Speaker(s):

Malcolm.Atkinson

Presentation Type:

invited

An overview of the achievements of the architecture and tools work package in VERCE over the last 12 months:
* the mapping of the major CPU-intensive and data-intensive use cases to he one framework,
* the provision of an integrating framework supporting both discussion and implementation,
* the support of two demonstrators: from CPU & data-intensive use cases.
The plans for the next 12 months:
* scale up and reliability
* completion of the registry and other components needed for a quality beta test of the VERCE platform
* alliances with major sub-infrastructure providers

Attachment	Size
PDF of the talk	8.83 MB

Date and time:

Thursday, 25 April, 2013 - 11:00

Location:

Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France

Web site:

Projects:

VERCE

Research topics:

Seismology

Forecasting volcanic eruptions

David.Rodriguez — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:20:57 +0000

NeSC Research Seminar Series

Speaker:

Andrew Bell

Unlike earthquakes, most volcanic eruptions are preceded by clear episodes of unrest. These precursory signals are the main basis for forecasting eruptive activity, yet the quality of such forecasts are unknown. I will describe physical and empirical models for eruption forecasting and our efforts to quantify their performance. This work includes a project to test models in real-time, using data from multiple experimental facilities and volcano observatories.

Date and time:

Friday, 7 December, 2012 - 10:00

Length:

45 minutes

Location:

IF502

Projects:

EFFORT

Research topics:

Seismology