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Virtual Earthquake and seismology Research Community e-science environment in Europe Project 283543 – FP 7 -INFRASTRUCTURES-2011 -2 – www. verce. eu – info@verce. eu The VERCE Case Iraklis Klampanos iraklis. klampanos@ed. ac. uk University of Edinburgh 12 March 2013 www. verce. eu Based on contributions and input from Jean-Pierre Vilotte, Malcolm Atkinson, Alberto Michelini EGI/PRACE/EUDAT Collaboration and (many) others

Overview • Empower seismologists with technology to – Execute common researchoriented tasks – Manage data in a flexible and meaningful way (semantics and metadata) – In a unified, user-friendly framework www. verce. eu EGI/PRACE/EUDAT Collaboration London, 12/03/2013

VERCE Use-Cases • Broad splitting of tasks based on VERCE Use Cases Dataintensive HPC – Current and best practices and software req’s – Project resources at hand (private, Grid, HPC) – Prior technology investment (e. g. Dispel) • Data movement, staging and archiving • Meta-data – Annotation, look-up – VERCE-wide common view of meta/data www. verce. eu EGI/PRACE/EUDAT Collaboration London, 12/03/2013

HPC Use-Case [1] www. verce. eu EGI/PRACE/EUDAT Collaboration London, 12/03/2013

HPC Use-Case [2] www. verce. eu EGI/PRACE/EUDAT Collaboration London, 12/03/2013

Resources • PRACE – PLX, FERMI, Super. MUC – To be executing solvers such as Seissol, Spec. Fem 3 D • Already in place – integrated with Dispel • j. SAGA, DCI-Bridge • EGI – SCAI, LRZ, CINECA – Not yet integrated – near-future work www. verce. eu EGI/PRACE/EUDAT Collaboration London, 12/03/2013

Raw data management strategy • Data layer among VERCE sites – Initially IRODS, subject to internal evaluation – Including PRACE, EGI and private VERCE resources • Domain-specific metadata extraction layer – Each site will be able to query data based on properties relevant to seismologists – Used through Dispel or the Science Gateway • Initial prototype: 3 -6 months www. verce. eu EGI/PRACE/EUDAT Collaboration London, 12/03/2013

Immediately Useful Actions • VERCE is now starting to integrate resources within the adopted workflow paradigm (Dispel) • Computing facilities (PRACE, EGI, private) are fixed – we don’t need to discover them (yet) – Perhaps in the future • Long-term storage/archiving of final results, medium term for intermediate results. • More unified policy w. r. t. authentication/authorisation www. verce. eu EGI/PRACE/EUDAT Collaboration London, 12/03/2013

Testing and Evaluation • Long-term storage – Could start after ~6 months – Integration of VERCE data-management layer with EUDAT storage resources – PID and minimal metadata • Would be associated with VERCE internal records with potentially more domain-specific metadata • Authentication/Authorisation – Within VERCE’s HPC and Data Intensive use cases www. verce. eu EGI/PRACE/EUDAT Collaboration London, 12/03/2013