Geophysical Research Data Processing and Modelling for 2030 Computation

AuScope is set to run the Geophysical Research Data Processing and Modelling for 2030 Computation workshop hosted by the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) in Canberra, Australia, from Tuesday, 21st to Thursday, 23rd November 2023.

Outline

This workshop is made possible by the ARDC’s ‘Building a National High-Resolution Geophysics Reference Collection for 2030 Computation (2030 Geophysics Collection): Community Connect Grant (XN002A)’.

Using the ARDC’s grant AuScope will develop, deliver, and distribute the 2-day ‘Geophysical Research Data Processing and Modelling for 2030 Computation’ workshop and facilitate an additional day of strategic meetings between geophysics researchers from Australia’s national, state and territory surveys, universities, CSIRO, and international experts.

The training packages developed for this workshop will consist of two parts:

  • the utilisation of NCI for geophysics processing and modelling.

  • developing workflows for coupling geophysical software, compute environments and datasets.

Workshop Schedule

  • 9:00 - 9:05 AM
    Rebecca Farrington (AuScope)
    Introductions and acknowledgement to country

    9:05 - 9:15 AM
    Graham Heinson (Uni Adelaide)
    Purpose of Workshop

    9:15 - 10:00 AM
    Lesley Wyborn (NCI)
    Data For 2030 computation

    10:00 - 10:30 AM
    Jared Peackok (USGS)
    MTH5, MT Metadata

    10:30 - 11:00 AM
    Open Discussion on MT data issues

    11:00 - 11:15 AM
    Morning Tea

    11:15 - 12: 30 PM
    Nigel Rees (NCI)NCI environments (ARE + GADI) plus scaling

    12:30 - 1:30 PM
    Lunch

  • 1:30 - 3:00 PM
    Karl Kapper (IMDEX)
    Aurora

    3:00 - 3:15 PM
    Afternoon Tea

    3:15 - 4:45 PM
    Jared Peacock (USGS)
    MTPy 2.0

    4:45 - 5:30 PM
    Rebecca Farrington (AuScope)Open Discussion

  • 8:30 - 9:30 AM
    Janelle Simpson (GSQ) and Stephan Thiel (GSSA)
    ModEM

    9:30 to 10:30 AM
    Jared Peacock (USGS)
    SimPEG

    10:30 to 10:45 AM
    Morning Tea

    10:45 to 11:45 AM
    Sasha Aivazpourporgo (GSQ), Jared Peacock (USGS)
    jif3D

    11:45 to 12:45 AM
    Anandaroop Ray (GA)
    HiQGA

    12:45 to 1:30 PM
    Lunch

  • 1:30 - 2:15 PM
    Michelle Salmon, Robert Pickle (RSES, ANU)
    Overview of AusPass - the Australian Passive Seismic Server

    2:13 - 3:15 PM
    Sheng Wang (RSES, ANU)
    HPC processing of PS data

    3:15 - 3:30 PM
    Afternoon Tea

    3:30 - 4:30 PM
    Voon Lai (RSES, ANU)
    DAS

    4:30 - 5:30 PM
    Rebecca Farrington (AuScope)
    Round table - where are we going with HPC

  • All day
    Jared Peacock (USGS) and Karl Kapper (IMDEX)
    Meeting with GA's Geophysics team

Connection to Geophysics 2030

Geophysics 2030: Building a National High-Resolution Geophysics Reference Collection for 2030 Computation. Image: Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)

The Cross-NCRIS National Data Assets program co-funded the ‘Geophysics 2030: Building a National High-Resolution Geophysics Reference Collection for 2030 Computation’ project, which has:

  • trialled publishing vertically integrated geophysical datasets, making both raw datasets and successive levels of derivative data products available online in a new international self-describing data standard (first published in 2021).

  • co-located these datasets/data products with HPC computing resources required to process datasets at scale.

  • developed new community software and environments allowing researchers to exploit the new data sets at high-resolution on a continental-scale.

This ARDC, AuScope, NCI and TERN-funded project has therefore not only created a new high-performance dataset, it has also introduced a new, world-leading community platform that allows researchers to combine high-performance computing, high-resolution datasets and flexible/agile software workflows.

Impact

This world-leading innovation can be evidenced by new proposed projects in collaboration with leading international researchers, including Jared Peacock, the United States Geological Survey-based leader of the new standards for Magnetotelluric (MT) data and Karl Kappler, UC Berkeley, who is leading the development of ‘Aurora’, a National Science Foundation (USA) funded open-source software package for processing MT data using the new MTH5 standards.

Outcome

It is expected that by engaging key and influential academic, government and CSIRO researchers they will increase uptake of new data standards and new high resolution, large scale geophysical data processing methods. Many of the current standards and processing methods were developed in the last century and are not enabling full utilisation of existing data, nor is it enabling innovative, transparent, replicable research.

 
 

KEY INFORMATION
Geophysical Research Data Processing and Modelling for 2030 Computation workshop.

WHEN: 21 - 23 November, 2023.
WHERE: The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Hosted by: National Computational Infrastructure (NCI).