StorCloud Application

SCEC TeraShake - Supporting an Earthquake Storage Intensive Simulation

Marcio Faerman
San Diego Supercomputer Center

TeraShake, a Southern California Earthquake Center Community Modeling Environment (SCEC/CME) compute and storage intensive simulation, models a large earthquake occurring on the southern San Andreas Fault in California. There is significant interest in modeling earthquakes in Southern California and Northern Mexico. The simulation is based on the Anelastic Wave Propagation Model code, developed by Kim B. Olsen from San Diego State University. The code, enhanced during the TeraShake effort, is now available to the earthquake community.

The simulation, modeled on a rectangular 3000 x 1500 x 400 mesh with 1.8 billion points, will run 20,000 time steps at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) DataStar machine. Each step can produce a 21.6GByte snapshot containing ground motion velocity vectors. A 4D wavefield containing 2,000 snapshots, amounting to 43TBytes of data, will be generated at SDSC. Surface data will be archived every step for synthetic seismogram engineering analysis, totaling 1 Tbyte.

Related Information

Team Members:
Kim B. Olsen, San Diego State University
Jean-Bernard Minster , University of California, San Diego
Reagan Moore, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Steven Day, San Diego State University
Philip Maechling, University of Southern California
Thomas H. Jordan, University of Southern California
Marcio Faerman, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Yifeng Cui, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Geoffrey Ely, University of California, San Diego
Yuanfang Hu, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Boris Shkoller, University of California, San Diego
Carey Marcinkovich, ExxonMobil Exploration Company
Jacobo Bielak, Carnegie Mellon University
David Okaya, University of Southern California
Ralph Archuleta, University of California, Santa Barbara
Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Steve Cutchin, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Amit Chourasia, San Diego Supercomputer Center
George Kremenek, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Arun Jagatheesan, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Leesa Brieger, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Amit Majumdar, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Giridhar Chukkapalli, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Qiao Xin, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Richard Moore, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Bryan Banister, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Donald Thorp, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Patricia Kovatch, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Larry Diegel, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Tom Sherwin, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Christopher Jordan, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Marcus Thiebaux, Information Sciences Institute
Julio Lopez, Carnegie Mellon University