Enhancing Research in Natural Hazards Engineering Through the DesignSafe Cyberinfrastructure

Frontiers in Built Environment

Ahsan Kareem¹  Jamie E. Padgett²  Scott J. Brandenberg³  Laura Lowes⁴  Pedro Arduino⁴  Ellen M. Rathje⁵  Fred L. Haan⁶  Jean-Paul Pinelli⁷  Gilberto Mosqueda⁸  Clint Dawson⁹  Maria Esteva^1,10  Dan Stanzione^1,10  Tim Cockerill^1,10 

[1] Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, United States;Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States;Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States;Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States;Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, TX, United States;Department of Engineering, Calvin University, Grand Rapids, MI, United States;Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, United States;Department of Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States;Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX, United States;Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Texas, Austin, TX, United States;

关键词: cyberinfrastructure;    cloud-based tools;    data analytics;    data repository;    natural hazards;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fbuil.2020.547706

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

The DesignSafe cyberinfrastructure (www.designsafe-ci.org) is part of the NSF-funded Natural Hazard Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) and provides cloud-based tools to manage, analyze, understand, and publish critical data for research to understand the impacts of natural hazards. The DesignSafe Data Depot provides private and public disk space to support research collaboration and data publishing through a web interface. The DesignSafe Reconnaissance Portal uses a map interface to provide easy access to data collected to investigate the effects of natural hazards, and the DesignSafe Workspace provides cloud-based tools for simulation, data analytics, and visualization; as well as access to high performance computing (HPC). This paper provides an overview of the DesignSafe cyberinfrastructure and describes specific examples of the use of DesignSafe in research for natural hazards. These examples include electronic data reports that use Jupyter notebooks to allow researchers to interrogate data interactively within the web portal, computational workflows that integrate ensembles of HPC-based simulations and surrogate modeling, and the publication of field research data after natural hazard events that utilize a variety of DesignSafe tools. The paper also provides an overall assessment of current DesignSafe impact and usage, demonstrating how DesignSafe is enhancing research in natural hazards.

【 授权许可】

CC BY