DesignSafe: New Cyberinfrastructure for Natural Hazards Engineering

Rathje, Ellen M.; Dawson, Clint; Padgett, Jamie E.; Pinelli, Jean‐Paul; Stanzione, Dan; Adair, Ashley; Arduino, Pedro; Brandenberg, Scott J.; Cockerill, T. M.; Dey, Charlie; Esteva, María; Haan, Fred L.; Hanlon, Matthew; Kareem, Ahsan; Lowes, Laura N.; Mock, Stephen; Mosqueda, Gilberto

doi:10.1061/(asce)nh.1527-6996.0000246

Cited by 211 publications

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“…Performance under large force demands is compromised by flow limitations, pointing to the need for sufficient hydraulic accumulation. Experimental data presented in this paper are being made available through DesignSafe in project number PRJ‐1475.…”

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A simple strategy for dynamic substructuring: II. Experimental evaluation

Stefanaki

Sivaselvan

Weinreber

et al. 2018

Earthq Engng Struct Dyn

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Summary This paper is on an extensive experimental evaluation program to explore the robustness of a new strategy dynamic substructuring. This strategy, in contrast to conventional approaches, decouples the substructuring controller from the physical subsystem, and consequently results in a simple, yet robust, implementation. The concept is presented in detail in a companion paper. A configuration consisting of a shake table and an active mass driver is used in the experimental program, and various factors such as dynamics of virtual subsystems used, modeling of the actuator, choice of control gain settings, and nonlinear effects in the actuator are investigated, leading to the conclusion that the proposed strategy results in robust performance.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A simple strategy for dynamic substructuring: II. Experimental evaluation

Stefanaki

Sivaselvan

Weinreber

et al. 2018

Earthq Engng Struct Dyn

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“…Repositories that use data models for managing data across the lifecycle are not common, but an example outside of life sciences is worth reviewing. DesignSafe (Rathje et al, 2017), a CI for natural hazards engineering, uses four different data models to allow interactive curation across the lifecycle, for publicly representing data obtained by hybrid simulation, experiments, field reconnaissance, and simulation research methods used by the community.…”

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Identifier Services: Modeling and Implementing Distributed Data Management in Cyberinfrastructure

Esteva

Walls

Magill

et al. 2019

Data and Information Management

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The Identifier Services (IDS) project conducted research into and built a prototype to manage distributed genomics datasets remotely and over time. Inspired by archival concepts, IDS allows researchers to track dataset evolution through multiple copies, modifications, and derivatives, independent of where data are located – both symbolically, in the research lifecycle, and physically, in a repository or storage facility. The prototype implementation is based on a three-step data modeling process involving: a) understanding and recording of different researcher workflows, b) mapping the workflows and data to a generic data model and identifying functions, and c) integrating the data model as architecture and interactive functions into cyberinfrastructure (CI). Identity functions are operationalized as continuous tracking of authenticity attributes including data location, differences between seemingly identical datasets, metadata, data integrity, and the roles of different types of local and global identifiers used during the research lifecycle. CI resources were used to conduct identity functions at scale, including scheduling content comparison tasks on high-performance computing resources. The prototype was developed and evaluated considering six data test cases, and feedback was received through a focus-group activity. While there are some technical roadblocks to overcome, our project demonstrates that identity functions are innovative solutions to manage large distributed genomic datasets.

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“…Credentials provided to Agave are used to transfer data and run commands on those systems, usually using a protocol like SSH. Web portals such as Designsafe [15,16] and CyVerse…”

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Virtualizing the Stampede2 Supercomputer with Applications to HPC in the Cloud

Proctor¹,

Packard²,

Jamthe³

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the Practice and Experience on Advanced Research Computing

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Methods developed at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) are described and demonstrated for automating the construction of an elastic, virtual cluster emulating the Stampede2 high performance computing (HPC) system. The cluster can be built and/or scaled in a matter of minutes on the Jetstream self-service cloud system and shares many properties of the original Stampede2, including: i) common identity management, ii) access to the same file systems, iii) equivalent software application stack and module system, iv) similar job scheduling interface via Slurm.We measure time-to-solution for a number of common scientific applications on our virtual cluster against equivalent runs on Stampede2 and develop an application profile where performance is similar or otherwise acceptable. For such applications, the virtual cluster provides an effective form of "cloud bursting" with the potential to significantly improve overall turnaround time, particularly when Stampede2 is experiencing long queue wait times. In addition, the virtual cluster can be used for test and debug without directly impacting Stampede2. We conclude with a discussion of how science gateways can leverage the TACC Jobs API web service to incorporate this cloud bursting technique transparently to the end user.

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DesignSafe: New Cyberinfrastructure for Natural Hazards Engineering

Cited by 211 publications

References 5 publications

A simple strategy for dynamic substructuring: II. Experimental evaluation

A simple strategy for dynamic substructuring: II. Experimental evaluation

Identifier Services: Modeling and Implementing Distributed Data Management in Cyberinfrastructure

Virtualizing the Stampede2 Supercomputer with Applications to HPC in the Cloud

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