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eFlows4HPC strengthens collaboration with geoscience community

Date: May 25, 2023

The in-person Galileo Conference 2023 “Solid Earth and Geohazards in the Exascale Era” was held 23-27 May 2023 at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) premises in Barcelona, Spain. This year’s event brought together some of the world’s best minds in various branches of computational geosciences to jointly tackle challenges and issues of Exascale computing.  

Eflows4HPC partners were heavily involved in the participation and organization of this event. Firstly, it counted with the support of professor Jorge Macías of the University of Malaga and Marta Pienkowska from ETH Zurich in the Scientific Programme and Organizing Committee. Secondly, the BSC senior researcher and eFlows4HPC pillar 3 leader Josep de la Puente moderated session 2 titled “Edge-to-end data workflows” on Wednesday 24 May from 14:30–18:00. This session counted with the participation of two talks of eFlows4HPC partners such as the NGI senior advisor Steve Gibbons titled “ML Emulation of High Resolution Inundation Maps for Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Analysis” from 15:45-16:00.

Steve Gibbons presents on “ML Emulation of High Resolution Inundation Maps for Probablistic Tsunami Hazard Analysis”

This session 2 continued with a one-hour poster session, where a total of 10 scientific posters were presented. Among them, the BSC researcher Marisol Monterrubio-Velasco presented an eFlows4HPC poster titled “Machine Learning based Estimator for ground Shaking maps”. In her poster, she highlighted the usage of HPC physics-based seismic simulations as the engine to train machine learning models to fast estimate the impact of an earthquake after its occurrence.

On Thursday 25 May morning and within session 3, the INGV researcher Louise Cordrie gave the talk titled “Complete workflow for tsunami simulation and hazard calculation in urgent computing using HPC services” from 10:15–10:30.

In addition to the above mentioned sessions, the conference programme also included master classes on Tuesday.  eFlows4HPC’s coordinator Rosa M. Badia headed one of them addressed to early-career scientists titled “Edge-to-end data workflows”. During this training a total of 7 young researchers had the opportunity to present and discuss their research projects and results with senior eFlows4HPC experts. “By fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange between HPC workflow experts and geoscience specialists, we can drive innovation, enhance computational capabilities, and uncover new insights that shape the future of geoscience research. The interaction with students is also a great potential to promote early career researchers in both fields”, says Rosa M. Badia.

Rosa M. Badia during the master classes at the Galileo Conference 2023 held in Barcelona

About the “Solid Earth and Geohazards in the Exascale Era” conference

The “Solid Earth and Geohazards in the Exascale Era” Galileo conference 2023 gathered a international experts in various branches of computational geosciences to jointly tackle challenges and issues of Exascale computing. The ultimate goal of this event is to produce a consensual white paper defining the vision and a roadmap for our Community towards the Exascale era. 

How to cite: 

Monterrubio-Velasco, M., Modesto, D., Callaghan, S., and de la Puente, J.: Machine Learning based Estimator for ground Shaking maps, Galileo Conference: Solid Earth and Geohazards in the Exascale Era, Barcelona, Spain, 23–26 May 2023, GC11-solidearth-50, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-gc11-solidearth-50 , 2023.

Gibbons, S., Storrøsten, E., and Løvholt, F.: ML Emulation of High Resolution Inundation Maps for Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Analysis, Galileo Conference: Solid Earth and Geohazards in the Exascale Era, Barcelona, Spain, 23–26 May 2023, GC11-solidearth-10, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-gc11-solidearth-10 , 2023.

Cordrie, L., Selva, J., Bernardi, F., Tonini, R., Macías Sánchez, J., Sánchez Linares, C., Gibbons, S., and Løvholt, F.: Complete workflow for tsunami simulation and hazard calculation in urgent computing using HPC services, Galileo Conference: Solid Earth and Geohazards in the Exascale Era, Barcelona, Spain, 23–26 May 2023, GC11-solidearth-14, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-gc11-solidearth-14 , 2023.