Abstract
Two recent projects have used the Cray XK7 Titan supercomputer at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory to study Earth's dynamics, specifically seismology-related studies. Using Titan, one team of researchers modeled Earth's interior using earthquake data, while a second team developed physics-based earthquake simulations for disaster management applications. Together, the projects demonstrate how leadership-class supercomputing provides context to scientific discussions and informs decision making among civic leaders.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 8012337 |
| Pages (from-to) | 68-71 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Computing in Science and Engineering |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2017 |
Funding
The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility is a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725. This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract number DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy. The US government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for US government purposes. The DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan). I acknowledge Jonathan Hines of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Miki Nolan formerly of Oak Ridge National Laboratory for their contributions to the content of this article.
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| DOE Office of Science | DE-AC05-00OR22725 |
| US Department of Energy |
Keywords
- Earth science
- Supercomputers
- Titan
- computer simulation
- earthquake
- geology
- scientific computing
