TY - GEN
T1 - VERCE delivers a productive e-science environment for seismology research
AU - Atkinson, Malcolm
AU - Carpene, Michele
AU - Casarotti, Emanuele
AU - Claus, Steffen
AU - Filgueira, Rosa
AU - Frank, Anton
AU - Galea, Michelle
AU - Garth, Tom
AU - Gemund, Andre
AU - Igel, Heiner
AU - Klampanos, Iraklis
AU - Krause, Amrey
AU - Krischer, Lion
AU - Leong, Siew Hoon
AU - Magnoni, Federica
AU - Matser, Jonas
AU - Michelini, Alberto
AU - Rietbrock, Andreas
AU - Schwichtenberg, Horst
AU - Spinuso, Alessandro
AU - Vilotte, Jean Pierre
N1 - Funding Information:
VERCE is supported by the the EU project RI 283543. The 21 authors are those who contributed directly to this paper. They thank the many others in VERCE who contributed to the ideas, to the software, to setting up and running the services, and to supporting users. They also thank the many who have developed seismic services and simulation codes over the last two decades, and the students and users beyond VERCE who have contributed their feedback. They dedicate this paper to the memory of Torild van Eck, whose premature death robbed him of the chance to share VERCE’s success and to take a leading role in this paper. His sustained commitment to collaboration, his vision and quiet diplomacy, as leader of ORFEUS
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/10/22
Y1 - 2015/10/22
N2 - The VERCE project has pioneered an e-Infrastructure to support researchers using established simulation codes on high-performance computers in conjunction with multiple sources of observational data. This is accessed and organised via the VERCE science gateway that makes it convenient for seismologists to use these resources from any location via the Internet. Their data handling is made flexible and scalable by two Python libraries, ObsPy and dispel4py and by data services delivered by ORFEUS and EUDAT. Provenance driven tools enable rapid exploration of results and of the relationships between data, which accelerates understanding and method improvement. These powerful facilities are integrated and draw on many other e-Infrastructures. This paper presents the motivation for building such systems, it reviews how solid-Earth scientists can make significant research progress using them and explains the architecture and mechanisms that make their construction and operation achievable. We conclude with a summary of the achievements to date and identify the crucial steps needed to extend the capabilities for seismologists, for solid-Earth scientists and for similar disciplines.
AB - The VERCE project has pioneered an e-Infrastructure to support researchers using established simulation codes on high-performance computers in conjunction with multiple sources of observational data. This is accessed and organised via the VERCE science gateway that makes it convenient for seismologists to use these resources from any location via the Internet. Their data handling is made flexible and scalable by two Python libraries, ObsPy and dispel4py and by data services delivered by ORFEUS and EUDAT. Provenance driven tools enable rapid exploration of results and of the relationships between data, which accelerates understanding and method improvement. These powerful facilities are integrated and draw on many other e-Infrastructures. This paper presents the motivation for building such systems, it reviews how solid-Earth scientists can make significant research progress using them and explains the architecture and mechanisms that make their construction and operation achievable. We conclude with a summary of the achievements to date and identify the crucial steps needed to extend the capabilities for seismologists, for solid-Earth scientists and for similar disciplines.
KW - Data science
KW - Data-intensive
KW - E-infrastructure
KW - HPC
KW - Metadata and storage
KW - Science gateway
KW - Solid-earth sciences
KW - Virtual research environment
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U2 - 10.1109/eScience.2015.38
DO - 10.1109/eScience.2015.38
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84959050024
T3 - Proceedings - 11th IEEE International Conference on eScience, eScience 2015
SP - 224
EP - 236
BT - Proceedings - 11th IEEE International Conference on eScience, eScience 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 11th IEEE International Conference on eScience, eScience 2015
Y2 - 31 August 2015 through 4 September 2015
ER -