Title
VERCE Delivers a Productive E-science Environment for Seismology Research
Abstract
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/eScience.2015.38
2015 IEEE 11th International Conference on e-Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Science Gateway,HPC,Data-Intensive,Data Science,Metadata and Storage,solid-Earth Sciences,Virtual Research Environment,e-Infrastructure
Seismology,Data science,Data modeling,Data mining,e-Science,Computer science,Distributed computing,Virtual research environment,The Internet,Architecture,Data as a service,Group method of data handling,Python (programming language)
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
abs/1510.01989
2325-372X
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.80
10
21