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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