1. Seismology VO PSC05 Meeting, Sept. 9th 2009 Can Özturan
Seismology VO Leader
Dept. Of Computer Eng.
Boğaziçi University, Istanbul
The SEE-GRID-SCI initiative is co-funded by the European Commission under the FP7 Research Infrastructures contract no

2. Overview Overview of Presentation: General VO Information / Metrics
Dissemination Activities
User Forum Regional Seismology VO Training Agenda
International Collaboration
Status of Applications
Status of Data Collection
Action Points

3. General VO Information / Metrics
Wiki:
Metric M1
M12
DoW
achieved
M24
No. of applications 1 3 4  5
No. of users 25
29* 35
No. of countries involved 2
 8* 6
No. of research groups involved 4
 12* 7
Some countries/organizations/persons have not signed up for VO membership

4. General VO Information / Metrics
Collaborators
Current VO members
Name & Surname
CA Authority
Country
Organization
Organization Unit
Mikayel Gyurjyan
ArmeSFo CA AM
IIAP NAS RA
HPC Armcluster
Armenia
Tigran Shahinyan
Mathematical Support of Distributed Systems
Hrachya Astsatryan
HPC_LABORATORY
Farkas Zoltan
NIIF Root CA HU
NIIF CA
MTA SZTAKI LPDS
Hungary
Miklos Kozlovszky
Sandor Acs
Anastas Misev
MARGI-CA MK
MARGI
UKIM
Macedonia
Boro Jakimovski
Dragan Sahpaski
Milosh Stolic
Vangel Ajanovski
Antun Balaz
AEGIS-CA RS
AEGIS
Institute of Physics Belgrade
Serbia
Dusan Vudragovic
Alexander Golubev
SEE-GRID CA MD
Moldovia
Veaceslav Sidorenco
Bilal Bektas
TRGrid TR BU
TR-Bogazici
Can Ozturan
Mehmet Yilmazer
Pinar Deniz
Ramazan Arikan
Ahmet Ketenci
METU
TR-METU
Aysen Akkaya
Burcin Emre Ulgen
Celebi Kocair
Cevat Sener
Emrah Akkoyun2
ULAKBIM
TR-ULAKBIM
Feyza Eryol
Hakan Bayindir
Onur Temizsoylu
Collaborating Organizations
Country
Polytechnic University of Tirana
Albania
National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
Armenia
Seismological Department, in Geophysical Institute of BAS
Bulgaria
Department of Geophysics in Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences of Eötvös Loránd University
Hungary
Seismological Observatory of Geodetic and Geophysical Research Institute of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics of University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius
FYR of Macedonia
Institute of Geology and Seismology of ASM
Moldova
Seismological Survey of Serbia
Serbia
Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute / Dept. of Computer Engineering , Boğaziçi University
Turkey
Middle East Technical University
Earthquake Research Dept. of General Directorate of Disaster Affairs
ULAKBIM

5. Major Dissemination & Training Activities
Wiki pages
Seismology brochure
Presentation and poster in the EGEE 08 Conference in Istanbul (Sep 08)
Poster and demo presentation of the Seismology-VO in the ICT 2008 conference, (Nov.08, Lyon)
Local training event: Grid Usage and Seismology VO Training, Boğaziçi University, Jan
Presentation of the Seismology VO at the BASARIM09 High Performance and Grid Conference, Ankara, April 2009 in a special dissemination session devoted to the SEE-GRID-SCI project
4th EGEE User Forum Presentations, Catania, Sicily, Italy (March 2009)
SRA: Seismic Risk Assessment Application Framework, Poster Presentation
NMMC3D: Enabling Numerical Modeling of Mantle Convection on the Grid, Oral Presentation
Poster Presentations at the Annual Meeting of the NERIES Project, Utrech, the Netherlands (June 29-July 1, 2009).
Seismology VO poster
MDSSP-WA poster
Poster presentations of the Seismology, Metereology and Environment VOs at the GEO European Projects Workshop /8, Istanbul (Oct. 8-9, 2009)

6. Major Dissemination & Training Activities
Papers:
ELF : M. Y., R.A. ,M.S.G, C. O, B. B “Parallelization of the Earthquake Location Finding Application Using JDL Workflows”,BASARIM09 High Performance and Grid Conference, Ankara, April 2009.
NMMC3D: A. B., M. K., B. S., B. B, “Enabling Numerical Modeling of Mantle Convection on the Grid”, MIPRO 2009, 25-29, May 2009
Seismology VO: C. O., B. B., M. Y.,C. Ş., “Challenges Faced in Building A Seismology VO for Southeastern Europe”, e-Challenges Conference, Istanbul, Oct
NMMC3D: ISGTW article updated.
MDSSP-WA: ICT Innovations, Ohrid 09 (in preparation).

7. SEEGRID-SCI User Forum- Regional Seismology VO Training Agenda
Proposed Training Agenda
Overview of the Seismology VO (half hour)
SDS Application service (1 and half hours)
Seegrid plug-ins for NERIES Web Services. (1 and half hours)
Selected Seismology VO Applications (2 and half hours)

8. International Cooperation Activities
Upon invitation by Dr. Torild van Eck (ORFEUS General Secretary), C. Özturan and L. Jordanovski attended the Third Annual Meeting of the NERIES Project, Utrecht, the Netherlands on June 29-July 1, The costs of travel, lodging and registration were sponsored by the NERIES project.
Had technical talks with the IT personnel Allessandro Spinuso and Luca Trani of ORFEUS/KNMI about the newly released NERIES web services that provide seismology data during the Third Annual Meeting of the NERIES Project.
Started development of a high level C++ based grid plug-in for accessing seismology data by using the NERIES web services.
A preliminary version of the plug-in for downloading waveform files has been released (can be downloaded at the seismology wiki page)

9. Seismic Risk Assesment - SRA
Main Developer: Cevat Şener, Middle East Tech. Univ., Turkey
Description
A framework that allows embedding of assessment models and produces seismic
hazard maps for the SEE region
Useful for determination of earthquake insurance premiums.
Regional collaborators and their roles
Collaborate on developing models : Geophysical Institute of BAS (BG)
Exchange of attenuation relations : Inst. of Geo. and Seismo. of ASM (MD)
Collaborate by supplying data and SDSAS: Boğaziçi University (TR)
Number of registered users : 7
Web page / Documentation:
Some scientific/technical details
Web interface:

10. Seismic Risk Assesment – SRA
Current state :
Second Grid-mode prototype deployed
Application Architecture
SRA uses JRA1 SDSAS and P-GRADE Portal.
Future services to be used: AWT, Event Logger,
MEWS and P-GRADE Portal extensions (JRA1)
Quarter-5 Activities
Different PDFs studied / coded
Attenuation models inserted
Various formulations studied / prepared
Hazard spectrum drawing codes developed
Time dep. Renewal model surveyed
Web site development
Country information requirements for
SRA identified
Future plans
M16 – Testing Grid-mode
M18 – Deployed at production-level

11. Seismic Risk Assesment - SRA
SRA web interface

12. Earthquake Location Finding - ELF
Main Developer: Mehmet Yılmazer, Boğaziçi University, Turkey
Description
A HYPO71 based application that finds earthquake locations and magnitudes
from continuous waveform data files reported by stations.
After an earthquake, the location of an earthquake needs to be reported to
various authorities for necessary actions to be taken.
Regional collaborators and their roles
Collaboration in usage: METU – TR, Armenia
Collaboration by data supplying: U. of Ss Cyril and Methodius (MK)
Number of registered users : 9
Web page / Documentation:
Computed earthquake results can be displayed using SDS web interface:
Documentation not ready
Current state :
Testing Grid-mode

13. Earthquake Location Finding - ELF
Application Architecture
Application uses continuous waveform data archived by the JRA1
SDSAS
Quarter-5 Activities
Helped Armenia install and run ELF application. Armenia is testing the
application.
A bug was discovered in one of the test cases reported by Armenia – currently
working on resolving it.
Future plans
Perform tests on massive historical data
Train/help other partners on using this program

14. Massive Digital Seismological Signal Processing with the Wavelet Analysis- MDSSP-WA
Main Developer: Ljupco Jordanovski, U. of Ss Cyril and Methodius (MK)
Description
Computes various earthquake parameters needed in seismic hazard and risk
analysis
Does mapping of the given earthquake prone regions in terms selected parameters
Regional collaborators and their roles
Supply data via SDSAS : Boğaziçi University (TR)
Exch. of various data/parameters/research results: Geophysical Inst. of BAS (BG)
Exch. of various data/parameters/research results : Seismological Survey of
Serbia (RS)
Various studies of Valandovo, Strumica and Skopje regions : Institute of
Geodesy, BAS (BG)
Geomagnetic field/data/research: Inst. Nuclear Res. & Nuclear Energy,
BAS (BG)
Number of registered users: 5
Web page / Documentation:
No web interface, no documentation yet

15. Massive Digital Seismological Signal Processing with the Wavelet Analysis- MDSSP-WA
Current state :
Testing Grid-mode
Application Architecture
Uses JRA1 SDSAS and AWT
Quarter-5 Activities:
Some processes are made to work
in grid mode
Developed a simple workflow and testing it now
Presented poster at NERIES Meeting
Preparing a paper for ICT Innovations,
Ohrid Conference
Future plans
Develop more advanced workflow
Actual performance will be
measured in the next phase of
development.
ULMON (JRA1) monitoring tool will be used
to analyze application performance
EQ job
start
Compute
Characteristic 1 2 N
Analyze and
Classify
the EQ

16. Fault Plane Solution - FPS
Main Developer: Mehmet Yılmazer, Boğaziçi University, Turkey
Description
Computes source parameters and moment magnitude of an earthquake
Inputs a crust model and actual seismic waveform data.
Outputs fault parameters of the earthquake.
Results obtained can help in risk analysis
Regional collaborators and their roles
Development of a workflow for the application: Computer and Automation Res.
Inst. (SZTAKI) of HAS (HU)
Number of registered users : 4
Web page / Documentation:
No web interface, no documentation yet
Current state :
Developing Grid-mode

17. Fault Plane Solution - FPS
Application Architecture
Uses regional seismic moment tensor
inversion methodology
Application uses continuous waveform
data archived by the JRA1 SDSAS
Quarter-5 Actvities
Major code reorganization needed to
be done for gridification
Development of a workflow
Future plans
Complete development by M17
(revised from M16)

18. Numerical Modeling of Mantle Convection – NMMC3D
Main Developer: Bálint Süle, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Description
Provides model of the thermal convection in the Earth's mantle
Solves numerically the equations of thermal convection
The mantle convection is the driving force of the plate tectonics
Results will help us to understand better the dynamics of the Earth
Regional collaborators and their roles
Collaboration in testing of the application and interpretation of the results:
Boğaziçi University (TR)
Number of registered users : 5
Web page / Documentation:
P-GRADE portal,
Online material on GASUC web page:
Current state:
Grid-mode deployed, Testing in Grid-mode

19. Numerical Modeling of Mantle Convection – NMMC3D
Application Architecture
The gridification process included developing a specialized web interface
extension to P-GRADE Portal, specifically tailored for the application's needs.
An interface suitable for this was developed using the Application Specific
Module of P-GRADE Portal 2.7.
Quarter-5 Activities
Further developments
User interface enhanced
Updated ISGTW article
Future plans
Training scenario with P-GRADE

20. Seismic Data Server SDS web interface
Main Developer: Can Özturan, Boğaziçi University, Turkey
Description
Web interface to seismic data archive organized by the JRA1 SDSAS
Let the users visually display various kinds of information about the seismology
waveform data files, earthquakes and stations
Regional collaborators and their roles
Collaboration in usage: Ss Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje (MK)
Collaboration in usage: METU, (TR)
Number of registered users : 4
Web page / Documentation:
Current state :
Cluster-mode deployed

21. Seismic Data Server SDS web interface
Application Architecture
Records of seismology data are kept in AMGA server
Invokes programs that utilize JRA1 SDSAS to retrieve information about
earthquakes, stations and waveform files as a Google kml file and display them
in browser window
Quarter-5 Activities
A prototype was developed
which was shown in the 1st year
review demo
Future plans
Additional functionality will be
introduced so that the ELF
application user can display
the results of ELF runs by giving
job ids

22. SDSAS Application Service
Main Developer: Can Özturan, Boğaziçi University, Turkey
Description
Various scripts for seismic data organization using AMGA and LFC
C++ iterators providing high level access to seismology data
Web page / Documentation:
Documentation available for the version released in April
Quarter-5 Activities
Installation at Armenian site
Development of a plug-in for accessing NERIES data on grid
Provide a high level C++ interface to NERIES web services so that seismologists can access NERIES data on the grid without the need not to learn soap, xml, xml parsing
Develop using libcurl and libxml which are readily available on SL
Release of a preliminary version of the plug-in

23. SDSAS Application Service

24. Status of Data Collection
Country
Earthquakes
Number of
Waveform Data
Code
Oldest
Newest
Number
Stations
No. of Files
Total Size AL
1444-Aug-28
2005-Jul-10
671 7 - AM
2002-Jan-07
2009-Jun-22
354
38 (3 digital) BG GR HU MK
1555-Jan-01
2009-Apr-28
414 6
2005-Aug-17
2007-Dec-31
73909 TB MD 5
2007-Aug-29
2009-Feb-11
7380 TB RO SR TR
1975-Jan-01
2008-Nov-03
95540 81
2005-Apr-01
2008-Oct-15 TB
Note:
Greek,Romanian,Bulgarian and Hungarian data can be obtained from NERIES, so there is no problem.
Serbian and Albanian networks are not on NERIES. We should get data from these countries (today we have received a seismic data DVD from Albania)

25. Action Points
Paper submissions to User Forum – all application developers
Application developer / collaborators should sign up as users of VO
Complete development of NERIES grid plug-in – Can Ozturan
Implement additional SDSAS methods as further needed by
applications (e. g. return data within a circle ) – C. Ozturan
Documentation of applications – all application developers
Web sites for applications – all application developers
Attract new regional and international VO users – C. Ozturan
Prepare Seismology VO Training material – C. Ozturan + application developers