EGI Community Forum 2014 - Helsinki

Session

e-Infrastructure Services for Earth Science

19 May 2014, 15:00

Helsinki University, Main Building

Conveners

e-Infrastructure Services for Earth Science

• Horst Schwichtenberg (FRAUNHOFER)
• Monique PETITDIDIER (CNRS)

Description

Applications belonging to the broad field of EarthSciences have been successfully using European e-Infrastructures for their research for a long time. Applications from various different domains like atmospheric chemistry, seismology, meteorology, hydrology, etc. have been deployed and used to produce scientific results.
This session shall highlight some of the more recent applications, employed solutions and results that have been acquired using EGI, or national Cloud and Grid infrastructures.
Solutions implemented on the basis of different middlewares and in combination with data infrastructures such as proposed/provided by EUDAT and domain-specific infrastructures will be presented.

12. Updates on Earth Science Applications

Horst Schwichtenberg (FRAUNHOFER), Monique PETITDIDIER (CNRS)

19/05/2014, 15:00

Session

Applications belonging to the broad field of EarthSciences have been successfully using European e-Infrastructures for their research for a long time. Applications from various different domains like atmospheric chemistry, seismology, meteorology, hydrology, etc. have been deployed and used to produce scientific results. This session shall highlight some of the more recent applications,...

85. Atmospheric applications on the European Grid

Dr Monique PETITDIDIER (LATMOS-IPSL, Université Versailles St-Quentin ; Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06 ; CNRS/INSU, 11 Boulevard d’Alembert, 78280 Guyancourt, France)

19/05/2014, 15:15

Success stories in using e-Infrastructures for research (Track Leaders: E. Katragkou, P. Castejon)

Sessions contributions

The civil society and all public ask for certainties i.e. precise values with small error range as it concerns prediction at short, medium and long term in all Earth Science domains; but Science mainly answers only in terms of probability of occurrence. To improve the answer or/and decrease the uncertainties, (1) new observational instruments are deployed in order to have a better geographical...

83. Increased Computational Requirement of Meteorological and Crisis Applications

Prof. Ladislav Hluchy (Institute of Informatics SAS, Brativlava)

19/05/2014, 15:30

Success stories in using e-Infrastructures for research (Track Leaders: E. Katragkou, P. Castejon)

Sessions contributions

Authors:Ladislav Hluchy, Ivana Bartokova, Juraj Bartok We present application from domain of meteorology and crisis management we developed. Particularly, the IMS Model Suite - a complex software system designed to address the needs of accurate forecast of weather and hazardous weather phenomena, environmental pollution assessment and prediction of consequences of an accident. We discuss...

111. Migrating climate models to Grid: from EGEE to EGI experiences

Dr Antonio S. Cofiño (University of Cantabria)

19/05/2014, 15:45

Success stories in using e-Infrastructures for research (Track Leaders: E. Katragkou, P. Castejon)

Sessions contributions

Grid computing is nowadays an established technology, which offers an alternative to traditional HPC resources. Grid has proven to be a great infrastructure to perform climate experiments that involve large amounts of independent simulations such as ensemble predictions and sensitivity analysis. But, the heterogeneity and distributed nature of Grid poses new challenges to climate applications...

104. icclim/ocgis: a generic climate impacts indices calculation package interfaced with the tailored IS-ENES web portal climate4impact WPS

Christian Page (CERFACS, France)

19/05/2014, 16:00

Success stories in using e-Infrastructures for research (Track Leaders: E. Katragkou, P. Castejon)

Sessions contributions

Within the FP7 European projects IS-ENES/IS-ENES2 on climate model data infrastructure, a web portal tailored for climate change impact communities is being developed. A first prototype version has been released in 2013. To support the impact communities, a package (icclim) to calculate climate indices (starting with the ECA&D indices) is currently developed. Several constraints had to be...

114. Two recent seismological applications implemented on the EGI Infrastructure

Mr William Frank (Sismologie, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris)

19/05/2014, 16:15

Success stories in using e-Infrastructures for research (Track Leaders: E. Katragkou, P. Castejon)

Sessions contributions

This work presents two applications that were implemented with the EGI: (1) We use data from an industrial seismic network made up of 2320 short-period sensors installed on the seafloor above an oil reservoir. We perform 24,210,360 cross-correlations between each unique pair of sensors, a 3-month long computation. Using cross-correlations, it is possible to recover the impulse function of the...

112. Seismology Data Management in VERCE

Mr Visakh Muraleedharan (IPGP)

19/05/2014, 16:30

Success stories in using e-Infrastructures for research (Track Leaders: E. Katragkou, P. Castejon)

Sessions contributions

Seismic data is processed and analysed by researchers across the world. Each researcher deals with terabytes of data (raw and processed) which is hard to manage, process and share adopting exclusively the local facilities. In order to handle this big volume of data, a robust and scalable data management platform is required, allowing storage and discovery of large and heterogeneous datasets. A...

99. Distributed trace processing on Cloud resources

Andre Gemuend (FRAUNHOFER), Mr Steffen Claus (Fraunhofer SCAI)

19/05/2014, 16:45

Success stories in using e-Infrastructures for research (Track Leaders: E. Katragkou, P. Castejon)

Sessions contributions

The EU-funded project VERCE (http://verce.eu/) aims to address specific seismological use-cases employing resources spanning available e-Infrastructures on the basis of requirements elicited from the seismology community. It provides a service-oriented infrastructure to deal with the challenges the researchers face in the data-intensive and high-performance computations employed in modern...

81. Grid, Cloud and Mobile exploitation in Earth Sciences

Dr Giuseppe La Rocca (INFN), Riccardo Bruno (INFN)

19/05/2014, 17:00

Success stories in using e-Infrastructures for research (Track Leaders: E. Katragkou, P. Castejon)

Sessions contributions

The access to distributed computing and storage infrastructures based on Grid and Cloud paradigms has recently been improved thanks to the spread of Science Gateways and the support for mobility. In this contribution we present the results obtained in this context of two different European projects funded by the European Commission, both under its Seventh Framework Program and both belonging...

131. Updates on Earth Sciences applications - discussion

Horst Schwichtenberg (FRAUNHOFER), Monique PETITDIDIER (CNRS)

19/05/2014, 17:15