Collaborative Research: USArray Data Processing Workshop for the Next Generation of Seismologists

这个项目的重点是一个研讨会，以教育高级研究生，博士后和其他早期职业科学家在数据处理和高性能计算方面的最新概念。我们的主要目标是培养一批新的领导者，他们更有能力利用来自地球观测项目的大量数据。本次研讨会的重点将是USArray数据，尽管这里讨论和开发的方法适用于PBO和其他数字波形/时间序列数据。通过将地震数据处理领域的专家聚集在一起作为讲师，我们还希望将研讨会作为提炼短期和长期社区需求的第一步，以支持USArray项目所需的数据处理网络基础设施。研讨会将于2009年7月底至8月初在西北大学举行。除了pi之外，我们计划最多招收15名学生和5名以上的客座讲师。这将是一个实践性的短期课程，授课之后是电脑练习，旨在强化所教授的概念。一些练习将使用本地计算机，但许多练习将使用高性能计算机器，这些机器是NSF赞助的teragrid联盟的一部分。学生将在工作坊结束时完成一个设计概念项目。他们将被要求在研讨会结束后尝试实现他们的设计，并在2009年秋季的网络研讨会上展示结果。课程材料将与地震学联合研究机构的教育和推广计划合作组织并发布到网上。我们期望这些材料对许多地震学研究生课程有用。

This project is focused on a workshop to educate advanced graduate students, post-docs, and other early career scientists on current state-of-the-art concepts in data processing and high performance computing. The primary goal is to produce a new set of leaders who are more able to exploit the large volumes of data coming from the EarthScope program. The emphasis for this workshop will be on USArray data, although methods to be discussed and developed here are applicable to PBO and other digital waveform/time series data. By bringing together domain experts in seismic data processing as instructors we expect to also use the workshop as a first step for refining short-term and long-term community needs in the data processing cyberinfrastructure required to support the USArray program. The workshop will be held at Northwestern University in late July to early August of 2009. We are planning for up to 15 students and five or more guest lecturers in addition to the PIs. This will be a hands-on short course with lectures followed by computer exercises designed to reinforce the concepts being taught. Some exercises will use local computers, but many of the exercises will utilize high performance computing machines that are part of the NSF sponsored teragrid consortium. Students will complete a design concept project at the conclusion of the workshop. They will be required to attempt to implement their design after the workshop and present the results in the fall of 2009 in a webinar. Course materials will be organized and posted to the web in collaboration with the Education and Outreach Program of the Incorporated Research Institutions or Seismology. We expect these materials to be useful in many graduate-level course in seismology.