CME Work Areas

Special Projects Review

• SCEC Data Sets
• CS Data Access

• SCEC Web Site
  • ShakeOut
  • Event Response

• SCEC5
• SCEC Meeting

• Collaborators
• Software Licenses
• Information Copyright
• Proposal Development
• Project Reporting
• Allocation Development Reporting Access
• USC Support
• Credits
• SC15
• SCEC Structure
• Software Collaborations
• PC Staff Support
• Staff
• Planning Committee
• Next Due Dates

Related Entries

• SEISM2
• CSEP
• High-F
• F3DT
• CCSP
• UCERF3
• UCVM
• Broadband Platform
• CyberShake
• EEW
• Geoinformatics
• Allocations
  • PRAC
  • INCITE
  • XSEDE
  • USC HPC
• PAID Project
• Phi Project
• Keck CISM
  • Earthquake Simulators
• Spontaneous Rupture Simulations
• Community Models
• SCEC Scientific Software Descriptions
• UGMS
• GMSV
• NHERI
• USR
  • CVM-H
  • CFM Fault DB
• Transient Detection
• Ambient Noise Processing

Overview

SCEC Special Projects and Initiatives (aka "Special Projects") are organized around large-scale projects funded through special grants outside of the NSF-USGS cooperative agreements that support the SCEC base program, but have synergistic goals and are aligned with the overall SCEC research program priorities.

Work areas include:

1. Manage current SCEC Special Projects and pursue future funding opportunities to advance SCEC research.
2. Manage SCEC computing resources and develop proposals to national supercomputing facilities that provide allocations for research computing.
3. Develop and maintain computational platforms that support the SCEC research program.
4. Support the SCEC base program (aka "SCEC Core") to ensure alignment of overall SCEC research program priorities.
5. Participate in meetings and workshops to support and advance SCEC scientific collaborations.

SCEC Special Projects

CURRENT Funding	Science Working Groups / Components	Related Software	Important Dates
Geoinformatics II Project Title: Community Computational Platforms for Developing Three-Dimensional Models of Earth Structure, Phase II Sponsor: NSF Geoinformatics Award ID: 1349180 Award Amount: $1,100,000 Duration: 08/15/2014 to 07/31/2016	Unified Structural Representation (USR) Full 3D Tomography (F3DT)	UCVM SPECFEM3D AWP-ODC	10/30/2016 Final Report Due 10/30/2016 Outcomes Report Due
SEISM Project Title: A Sustainable Community Software Framework for Petascale Earthquake Modeling Sponsor: NSF SI2-SSI Award ID: 1148493 Award Amount: $2,522,786 Duration: 08/01/2012 to 07/31/2016	High Frequency (High-F) Broadband Platform (BBP) CyberShake	BBP UCVM Hercules AWP-ODC CyberShake OpenSHA OpenSees	10/30/2016 Final Report Due 10/30/2016 Outcomes Report Due
SEISM2 (aka XCESS) Project Title: Community Software for Extreme-Scale Computing in Earthquake System Science Sponsor: NSF SI2-SSI Award ID: 1450451 Award Amount: $2,200,000 Duration: 09/01/2015 to 08/31/2019	Working Group 1 Working Group 2 Working Group 3	Software 1 Software 2 Software 3	09/01/2016 Annual Report Due
CISM Project Title: Collaboratory for Interseismic Simulation and Modeling (CISM) Sponsor: W.M. Keck Foundation Award ID: Award Amount: $2,000,000 Duration: 07/01/2015 to 06/30/2018	Earthquake Simulators Working Group 2 Working Group 3	Software 1 Software 2 Software 3	mm/dd/yyyy Annual Report Due
CCSP Project Title: Central California Seismic Project Sponsor: PG&E Award ID: Award Amount: TBA Duration: TBA	Working Group 1 Working Group 2 Working Group 3	Software 1 Software 2 Software 3	mm/dd/yyyy Annual Report Due
NHERI Project Title: NHERI Cyberinfrastructure 2015-2019 Sponsor: University of Texas at Austin Award ID: Award Amount: $150,000 Duration: 07/01/2016 to 06/30/2018	Working Group 1 Working Group 2 Working Group 3	Software 1 Software 2 Software 3	mm/dd/yyyy Annual Report Due
PRAC Project Title: Extending the Spatiotemporal Scales of Physics-Based Seismic Hazard Analysis Sponsor: NSF Petascale-Track 1 Award ID: 1440085 Award Amount: $40,000 Duration: 09/14/2014 to 08/31/2016	Working Group 1 Working Group 2 Working Group 3	Software 1 Software 2 Software 3	11/30/2016 Final Report Due 11/30/2016 Outcomes Report Due

PENDING Funding	Science Working Groups / Components	Related Software	Important Dates
Geoinformatics III Project Title: Sponsor: NSF Geoinformatics Proposal ID: Amount Requested: Duration:	Working Group 1 Working Group 2 Working Group 3	Software 1 Software 2 Software 3	mm/dd/yyyy Item Due

PAST Projects (seek renewal?)	Science Working Groups / Components	Related Software	Status
UCERF3 Project Title: Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast, Version 3 (UCERF3) Sponsor: CEA Award ID: Award Amount: Duration:	Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities (WGCEP) Working Group 2 Working Group 3	SCEC-VDO OpenSHA	mm/dd/yyyy Update Item

SCEC Computing Resources

In 2015, SCEC received allocations on national supercomputing facilities totaling 362 million service units through proposals to the NSF XSEDE and PRAC programs, the DOE INCITE program, and USC HPC. These valuable allocations give SCEC researchers the HPC resources required for computationally intensive earthquake science, directly leveraging NSF’s and DOE’s huge investments in supercomputing. The current rate of computer usage by the SCEC collaboratories is almost 1 million CPU-hours per day.

Priority tasks (taken from here):

1. Define a mechanism for SCEC Core computing request in the allocation planning process.
2. Map research projects and simulations to computing systems.
3. List all important dates for managing allocations, including start/end dates, due dates (for requests and reports) and all pertinent meetings.
4. Synchronize development of allocation requests to avoid gaps and/or overlapping research proposed in multiple requests.
5. Establish policy for extending allocations and requesting supplements to allocations.
6. Standardize approval process for allocation access requests.

CURRENT Computing Resources	Science Projects / Simulations	Computing System	Important Dates
NSF XSEDE Project Title: SCEC Petascale Research: An Earthquake System Science Approach to Physics-based Seismic Hazard Research (TG-MCA03S012) Investigators: Thomas H. Jordan, Yifeng Cui, Kim Bak Olsen, Jacobo Bielak, Philip Maechling Awarded: 858,785 Hours / 50 TB Duration:	Project/Simulation 1 Project/Simulation 2 Project/Simulation 3	"Stampede" @ TACC "Comet" @ SDSC see details	07/17/2016 XSEDE Annual Conference 10/15/2016 Allocation Request Due 12/31/2016 Current Allocation End
NSF PRAC Project Title: Extending the Spatiotemporal Scales of Physics-Based Seismic Hazard Analysis Investigators: Thomas H. Jordan, Jacobo Bielak, Kim Bak Olsen, Yifeng Cui Awarded: 211,000,000 Hours / 249 TB Duration:	Project/Simulation 1 Project/Simulation 2 Project/Simulation 3	"Blue Waters" @ NCSA	May 2016 Blue Waters Symposium 11/09/2016 Allocation Request Due 05/17/2017 Current Allocation End
DOE INCITE Project Title: High Frequency Ground Motion Simulation for Seismic Hazard Analysis Investigators: Thomas H. Jordan, Jacobo Bielak, Po Chen, Yifeng Cui, Philip Maechling, Kim Olsen, Ricardo Taborda Awarded: 150,000,000 Hours / 500 TB Duration:	Project/Simulation 1 Project/Simulation 2 Project/Simulation 3	"Titan" @ ORNL "Mira" @ ANL	04/01/2016 Q1 Report Due 06/24/2016 Allocation Request Due 07/01/2016 Q2 Report Due 10/01/2016 Q3 Report Due 12/31/2016 Current Allocation End 01/01/2017 Q4 Report Due
USC HPC Project Title: Investigators: Awarded: 1,200,000 Hours / 100 TB Duration:	Project/Simulation 1 Project/Simulation 2 Project/Simulation 3	see details	06/30/2016 Allocation Request Due 09/30/2016 Current Allocation End

SCEC Computational Platforms

Figure: SCEC/CME researchers integrate software and hardware to produce research computing systems we call computational platforms.

A computational platform is a vertically integrated collection of hardware, software, and people that provides a broadly useful research capability. The existing SCEC computational platforms are shown in figure at right.

SCEC Base Program Activities

SCEC Special Projects are designed to align with the SCEC base program (aka "SCEC Core"), as well as the overall SCEC priorities, through careful planning and development of synergistic activities. These activities include:

1. Working within the SCEC Science Planning Committe (a) to develop the annual Science Collaboration Plan, (b) to coordinate activities relevant to SCEC science priorities, and (c) to generate annual reports for the Center.
2. Supporting and guiding when necessary the Technical Activity Groups (TAGs), which self-organize to develop and test critical methodologies for solving specific problems. Currently active TAGs include:
   1. Ground Motion Simulation Validation (GMSV)
   2. Aseismic Transient Detection
   3. Source Inversion Validation (SIV)
   4. Dynamic Rupture Code Validation
   5. Earthquake Simulators
   6. Committee for the Utilization of Ground Motion Simulations (UGMS)
3. Participating in the development and management of SCEC Community Models (aka "SCEC CXMs").
4. Contributing to relevant projects that receive SCEC funding through the annual Science Collaboration Plan process.
5. Participating in SCEC post-earthquake scientific response and development of simulations that support scenario exercises.
6. Providing mentoring and training to support the SCEC intern programs (e.g. Undergraduate Studies in Earthquake Information Technology).
7. Developing and maintaining the web information systems infrastructure for may SCEC websites.

Meetings & Workshops

Calendar	Special Projects STANDING Meetings	CURRENT YEAR (2016) Meetings	To Be Scheduled in Current Year
January	SCEC Proposal Review Q1 CS/IT Review	01/11 SCEC5 Site Review 01/14 SCEC Proposal Review	GTL (Asimaki) DynaShake Platform (Harris) CSEP towards OEF (Field/Jordan/Werner) CISM Kick-Off (Jordan) NHERI Texas (Rathje) BBP Validation Gauntlets (Luco Award #16110)
February	SCEC Board Meeting Special Projects All Hands Meeting	02/02 SCEC Board Meeting 02/29 GMSV Gauntlets Workshop
March		03/09 CISM EQ Simulator: RSQsim 03/11 Rupture Code Validation Workshop
April	Q2 CS/IT Review SSA Annual Meeting	TBD Q2 CS/IT Review TBD HPC Planning Meeting @SSA 04/20 SSA Annual Meeting
May		TBD UGMS TBD Blue Waters Symposium 05/28 PyCon 2016
June	SCEC Leadership Retreat Project Kick-Off Meeting Computing Allocation Planning	06/05 Special Projects All Hands Meeting 06/06 SCEC Leadership Retreat
July	Q3 CS/IT Review XSEDE Annual Conference	TBD Q3 CS/IT Review 07/17 XSEDE16
August	Annual PG&E Collaboration	TBD Annual PG&E Collaboration 08/31 QuakeCore
September	SCEC Annual Meeting SCEC "Community Models" Workshop	09/11 SCEC2016 TBD SCEC "Community Models" Workshop
October	Q4 CS/IT Review	TBD Q4 CS/IT Review
November	Supercomputing Conference	11/13 SC16 TBD UGMS
December	AGU Fall Meeting	12/12 AGU Fall Meeting