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View article: Optical Remote Sensing for Global Flood Disaster Mapping: A Critical Review Towards Operational Readiness
Optical Remote Sensing for Global Flood Disaster Mapping: A Critical Review Towards Operational Readiness Open
Flood hazards and their disastrous consequences disrupt economic activity and threaten human lives globally. From a remote sensing perspective, since floods are often triggered by extreme climatic events, such as heavy rainstorms or tropic…
View article: Defining a Cyberinfrastructure for Plasma Science and Space Weather Simulations
Defining a Cyberinfrastructure for Plasma Science and Space Weather Simulations Open
This paper presents a novel cyberinfrastructure designed to facilitate advanced plasma and space weather simulations across various high performance computing platforms through a user friendly web-based interface. The interface offers a co…
View article: Cybershuttle: An End-to-End Cyberinfrastructure Continuum to Accelerate Discovery in Science and Engineering
Cybershuttle: An End-to-End Cyberinfrastructure Continuum to Accelerate Discovery in Science and Engineering Open
We introduce Cybershuttle, a novel user-facing cyberinfrastructure that offers researchers seamless access to various resources, thereby enhancing their productivity.
View article: Science Gateways and AI/ML: How Can Gateway Concepts and Solutions Meet the Needs in Data Science?
Science Gateways and AI/ML: How Can Gateway Concepts and Solutions Meet the Needs in Data Science? Open
Science gateways are a crucial component of critical infrastructure as they provide the means for users to focus on their topics and methods instead of the technical details of the infrastructure. They are defined as end-to-end solutions f…
View article: Use of accounting concepts to study research: return on investment in XSEDE, a US cyberinfrastructure service
Use of accounting concepts to study research: return on investment in XSEDE, a US cyberinfrastructure service Open
This paper uses accounting concepts—particularly the concept of Return on Investment (ROI)—to reveal the quantitative value of scientific research pertaining to a major US cyberinfrastructure project (XSEDE—the eXtreme Science and Engineer…
View article: Critical Infrastructure - Modern Approach and New Developments
Critical Infrastructure - Modern Approach and New Developments Open
Modern critical infrastructures (CIs) (e.g., electricity, water, transportation, telecommunications, and others) form complex systems with a high degree of interdependencies from one CI to the others. Natural disasters (e.g., earthquakes, …
View article: The Delta Gateway: Exploring Community Use of GPU Resources through a Science Gateway
The Delta Gateway: Exploring Community Use of GPU Resources through a Science Gateway Open
What could a research team accomplish if given access to the latest GPU hardware? A molecular dynamics research team could process protein-ligand tests using 100 GPUs on Delta in about 3.6 days, a task that would take their local lab a ful…
View article: The Science Gateway Community Institute's Consulting Services Program: Lessons for Research Software Engineering Organizations
The Science Gateway Community Institute's Consulting Services Program: Lessons for Research Software Engineering Organizations Open
The Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI) is an NSF Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (S2I2) funded project that leads and supports the science gateway community. Major activities for SGCI include a) sustainability tra…
View article: A Framework to capture and reproduce the Absolute State of Jupyter Notebooks
A Framework to capture and reproduce the Absolute State of Jupyter Notebooks Open
Jupyter Notebooks are an enormously popular tool for creating and narrating computational research projects. They also have enormous potential for creating reproducible scientific research artifacts. Capturing the complete state of a noteb…
View article: Experiences with managing data parallel computational workflows for High-throughput Fragment Molecular Orbital (FMO) Calculations
Experiences with managing data parallel computational workflows for High-throughput Fragment Molecular Orbital (FMO) Calculations Open
Fragment Molecular Orbital (FMO) calculations provide a framework to speed up quantum mechanical calculations and so can be used to explore structure-energy relationships in large and complex biomolecular systems. These calculations are st…
View article: Science Gateway Integration Examples with the Custos Security Service
Science Gateway Integration Examples with the Custos Security Service Open
Science gateways are user-facing cyberinfrastructure that provide researchers and educators with Web-based access to scientific software, computing, and data resources. Streamlining and expanding use of High Performance Computing resources…
View article: A Dynamic, Multi-Protocol Data Storage Integration Framework for Multi-Tenanted Science Gateway Middleware
A Dynamic, Multi-Protocol Data Storage Integration Framework for Multi-Tenanted Science Gateway Middleware Open
Science gateways are user-centered, end-to-end cyberinfrastructure for managing scientific data and executions of computational software on distributed high performance computing and cloud resources. A typical goal of a science gateway is …
View article: Clustering Analysis Methods for GNSS Observations: A Data‐Driven Approach to Identifying California's Major Faults
Clustering Analysis Methods for GNSS Observations: A Data‐Driven Approach to Identifying California's Major Faults Open
We present a data‐driven approach to clustering or grouping Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) stations according to observed velocities, displacements or other selected characteristics. Clustering GNSS stations provides useful scie…
View article: Buried Aseismic Slip and Off‐Fault Deformation on the Southernmost San Andreas Fault Triggered by the 2010 El Mayor Cucapah Earthquake Revealed by UAVSAR
Buried Aseismic Slip and Off‐Fault Deformation on the Southernmost San Andreas Fault Triggered by the 2010 El Mayor Cucapah Earthquake Revealed by UAVSAR Open
We use UAVSAR interferograms to characterize fault slip, triggered by the Mw 7.2 El Mayor‐Cucapah earthquake on the 1 San Andreas Fault in the Coachella Valley providing comprehensive maps of short‐term geodetic surface deformation that co…
View article: Common Resource Descriptions for Interoperable Gateway Cyberinfrastructure
Common Resource Descriptions for Interoperable Gateway Cyberinfrastructure Open
Science gateway projects face challenges utilizing the vast and heterogeneous landscape of powerful cyberinfrastructure available today, and interoperability across technologies remains poor. This interoperability issue leads to myriad pro…
View article: Jetstream2: Accelerating cloud computing via Jetstream
Jetstream2: Accelerating cloud computing via Jetstream Open
Jetstream2 will be a category I production cloud resource that is part of the National Science Foundation's Innovative HPC Program. The project's aim is to accelerate science and engineering by providing "on-demand" programmable infrastruc…
View article: Experiences with Integrating Custos SecurityServices
Experiences with Integrating Custos SecurityServices Open
Science gateways are user-facing cyberinfrastruc-ture that provide researchers and educators with Web-basedaccess to scientific software, computing, and data resources.Managing user identities, accounts, and permissions are essentialtasks …
View article: A Multi-Protocol, Secure, and Dynamic Data Storage Integration Frameworkfor Multi-tenanted Science Gateway Middleware
A Multi-Protocol, Secure, and Dynamic Data Storage Integration Frameworkfor Multi-tenanted Science Gateway Middleware Open
Science gateways are user-centric, end-to-end cyberinfrastructure for managing scientific data and executions of computational software on distributed resources. In order to simplify the creation and management of science gateways, we have…
View article: Clustering Analysis Methods for GNSS Observations: A Data-Driven Approach to Identifying California's Major Faults
Clustering Analysis Methods for GNSS Observations: A Data-Driven Approach to Identifying California's Major Faults Open
Earth and Space Science Open Archive This work has been accepted for publication in Earth and Space Science. Version of RecordESSOAr is a venue for early communication or feedback before peer review. Data may be preliminary. Learn more abo…
View article: Buried Aseismic Slip and Off-Fault Deformation on the Southernmost San Andreas Fault triggered by the 2010 El Mayor Cucapah Earthquake revealed by UAVSAR
Buried Aseismic Slip and Off-Fault Deformation on the Southernmost San Andreas Fault triggered by the 2010 El Mayor Cucapah Earthquake revealed by UAVSAR Open
Earth and Space Science Open Archive This preprint has been submitted to and is under consideration at Earth and Space Science. ESSOAr is a venue for early communication or feedback before peer review. Data may be preliminary.Learn more ab…
View article: INTEGRATED MODEL OF MODELS FOR GLOBAL FLOOD ALERTING
INTEGRATED MODEL OF MODELS FOR GLOBAL FLOOD ALERTING Open
A dramatic increase in frequency of minor to major flooding since 2000 has caused significant economic losses across the world. To mitigate and recover from these losses, actions have been taken to build resilient communities and infrastru…
View article: DisasterAWARE – A GLOBAL ALERTING PLATFORM FOR FLOOD EVENTS
DisasterAWARE – A GLOBAL ALERTING PLATFORM FOR FLOOD EVENTS Open
The rising number of flooding events combined with increased urbanization is contributing to significant economic losses due to damages to structures and infrastructures. From a risk reduction and resilience perspective, it is not only ess…
View article: TopPIC Gateway: A Web Gateway for Top-Down Mass Spectrometry Data Interpretation
TopPIC Gateway: A Web Gateway for Top-Down Mass Spectrometry Data Interpretation Open
Top-down mass spectrometry-based proteomics has become the method of choice for identifying and quantifying intact proteoforms in biological samples. We present a web-based gateway for TopPIC suite, a widely used software suite consisting …
View article: Toward Interoperable Cyberinfrastructure: Common Descriptions for Computational Resources and Applications
Toward Interoperable Cyberinfrastructure: Common Descriptions for Computational Resources and Applications Open
The user-facing components of the Cyberinfrastructure (CI) ecosystem, science\ngateways and scientific workflow systems, share a common need of interfacing\nwith physical resources (storage systems and execution environments) to manage\nda…
View article: Automated Estimation and Tools to Extract Positions, Velocities, Breaks, and Seasonal Terms From Daily GNSS Measurements: Illuminating Nonlinear Salton Trough Deformation
Automated Estimation and Tools to Extract Positions, Velocities, Breaks, and Seasonal Terms From Daily GNSS Measurements: Illuminating Nonlinear Salton Trough Deformation Open
This paper describes the methods used to estimate positions, velocities, breaks, and seasonal terms from daily Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) measurements. Break detection and outlier removal have been automated so that decades …
View article: Using a model-of-models approach and remote sensing technologies to improve flood disaster alerting
Using a model-of-models approach and remote sensing technologies to improve flood disaster alerting Open
<p>Floods are happening regularly in almost all places of the world and impact people, societies and economies, causing widespread devastation that can be hard to recover from. Yet, accurately predicting and alerting for floods is ch…