M8

SCEC M8 Simulation

Fig 1:SCEC's M8 simulation of a Mag 8.0 rupture on southern San Andreas modeled wave propagation throughout the large simulation volume (810km x 600km x 85km) in Southern California shown in this image. (Image Credit: Geoff Ely)

The SCEC M8 Simulation involved a very large dynamic rupture, run on NSF TeraGrid NICS Kraken in March, 2010, and a very large earthquake wave propagation simulation, run on DOE INCITE NCCS Jaguar in April 2010. M8 can be described as the largest earthquake wave propagation simulation ever performed for the following reasons:

1. The M8 computational scale has a combined outer/inner scale of 10 ^ 4.3 (810km/40m)
2. The April 2010 M8 science run, using SCEC's AWP-ODC software, achieved sustained performance on a real science problem for 24 hours in excess of 220Tflop/s. When this M8 simulation, no other seismic wave propagation software had achieved more than 100Tflop/s.
3. The M8 wave propagation simulation, run on NCCS Jaguar, ran on 223k cores. No other seismic wave propagation application has been used on real science runs using more cores than M8.
4. The M8 simulation software, SCEC's AWP-ODC, scaled nearly perfectly up to 223k cores.
5. The M8 input velocity mesh required 435 billion grid points more than any wave propagation simulation at the time M8 was run.

The M8 Project is led by Yifeng Cui, Kim Olsen, and Thomas H. Jordan.

• Summary of M8 Simulation Parameters:

M8-related Wiki Entries

• Websims M8 Data Page
• M8 Data Products
• SCEC Visualization Projects
  • GlyphSea
• SCEC Websims Simulation Data Access
• M8 Narration
• VShaker
  • VShaker Metadata
• SC10 Planning
• M8 EEW Analysis
• M8 PSHA Analysis
• Goodness of Fit
• CVM Toolkit
• CME Meeting 2010

M8 Press Coverage

• SDSC M8 Article
• Discovery News Article and Video
• HPCWire Coverage of M8
• SciTV Video of M8
• Orange County Register Article

M8 Data Products

M8 simulation input data files and simulation results are posted on this wiki page as they become available.

• M8 Data Products

SCEC and CME-related Web Sites

Fig 1: M8 Dynamic Rupture simulation was run in March 2010 on NICS Kraken.

Fig 2: M8 Wave propagation simulation was run in April 2010 on NCCS Jaguar.

Fig 3: Two minutes after origin time for the SCEC M8 simulation showing velocity magnitude through local elevation. (Image Credit: Amit Chourasia)

• Public CME Website
• Collaborative SCEC Wiki
• SCEC Home Page
• SDSC High Performance Geocomputing Laboratory
• PetaSHA3 Project
• CME Movies and Animations
• CVM-Toolkit
• SCEC Websims Data Management Site
• SCEC CSEP Testing Center

SCEC Computer Science Collaborative Organizations and Resource Providers

• SDSC Geohpcl
• SDSC
• SDSC HPGeoC
• SDSC Visualization Services
• Scientific Workflows at USC/ISI
• Fault Tolerant Computing at CSM
• USC HPCC
• PSC
• NICS
• NCCS
• TACC
• NCSA
• Blue Waters
• Open Science Grid

M8-related 2010 SCEC Annual Meeting Posters:

• SCEC/CME Overview
• CVM-Toolkit
• Geoff Ely Ground Motion Visualizations
• GlyphSea Vector Visualization
• Vs30-based Geotechnical Layer (GTL)

See Also

• SCEC Home Page
• CME Home Page