1. www.verce.eu EGI/PRACE/EUDAT Collaboration www.verce.eu The VERCE Case Iraklis Klampanos iraklis.klampanos@ed.ac.uk University of Edinburgh iraklis.klampanos@ed.ac.uk 12 March 2013 Virtual Earthquake and seismology Research Community e-science environment in Europe Project 283543 – FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011-2 – www.verce.eu – info@verce.eu Based on contributions and input from Jean-Pierre Vilotte, Malcolm Atkinson, Alberto Michelini and (many) others

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

3. www.verce.eu EGI/PRACE/EUDAT Collaboration VERCE Use-Cases VERCE Use Cases Data- intensive HPC London, 12/03/2013 Broad splitting of tasks based on – 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

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

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

6. www.verce.eu EGI/PRACE/EUDAT Collaboration Resources PRACE – PLX, FERMI, SuperMUC – To be executing solvers such as Seissol, SpecFem3D Already in place – integrated with Dispel jSAGA, DCI-Bridge EGI – SCAI, LRZ, CINECA – Not yet integrated – near-future work London, 12/03/2013

7. www.verce.eu EGI/PRACE/EUDAT Collaboration 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 London, 12/03/2013

8. www.verce.eu EGI/PRACE/EUDAT Collaboration 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 London, 12/03/2013

9. www.verce.eu EGI/PRACE/EUDAT Collaboration 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 London, 12/03/2013