HR: 1340h
AN: S33C-1465    [Abstracts]
TI: Hardware, Software, and Policies of the CSEP Testing Center at SCEC
AU: Yu, J
EM: johnyu@usc.edu
AF: Southern California Earthquake Center, 3651 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States
AU: Liukis, M
EM: liukis@usc.edu
AF: Southern California Earthquake Center, 3651 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States
AU: Schorlemmer, D
EM: ds@usc.edu
AF: Southern California Earthquake Center, 3651 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States
AU: * Maechling, P J
EM: maechlin@usc.edu
AF: Southern California Earthquake Center, 3651 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States
AU: Jordan, T H
EM: tjordan@usc.edu
AF: Southern California Earthquake Center, 3651 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States
AU: Euchner, F
EM: fabian@sed.ethz.ch
AF: ETH Zurich, Raemistrasse 101, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland
AU: Zechar, J D
EM: zechar@usc.edu
AF: Southern California Earthquake Center, 3651 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States
AU: Gerstenberger, M
EM: m.gerstenberger@gns.cri.nz
AF: GNS Science, 1 Fairway Drive Lower Hutt, Avalon, 5040, New Zealand
AU: Working Group, C
EM: maechlin@usc.edu
AF: Southern California Earthquake Center, 3651 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States
AB: The Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability (CSEP) Testing Center at SCEC began development in January 2006 with funding from the W. M. Keck Foundation and became operational on September 1, 2007. The CSEP engineering group has developed the hardware, software, and operational policies necessary to support a stable, robust, affordable, and maintainable system with the expectation that such a Testing Center must operate for multiple years in order to produce scientifically useful results. The initial implementation of the CSEP Testing Center at SCEC runs long-term and short-term forecasts for the California natural laboratory and evaluates the forecast results with standard evaluation techniques. The CSEP Testing Center computer resources include significant computational and storage capabilities. The CSEP Testing Center software environment provides a controlled integration environment with a standardized software stack for developing and installing forecast models. CSEP development maintains a single source repository using open-source Subversion and conforms to continuous integration software practice by using open- source CruiseControl package as a framework for continuous build process. CSEP uses web-based software project management approach based on the open-source Trac project. Modular design of the CSEP software seeks to meet the requirement of experiment reproducibility; the processing infrastructure allows for automated evaluation of forecast experiments and manual processing for research activities. The CSEP Testing Center policies have been established to provide both a controlled environment, as well as transparency into the operations of the center. As a part of the transparency policy, CSEP program codes have been validated and distributed to other earthquake forecast testing facilities outside of California. We will discuss the design challenges we faced during development of the CSEP Testing Center, and we will present the software concepts, development strategies, and ways interested research can participate in the continuing developments of CSEP.
UR: http://www.cseptesting.org
DE: 0594 Instruments and techniques
DE: 7209 Earthquake dynamics (1242)
DE: 7223 Earthquake interaction, forecasting, and prediction (1217, 1242)
DE: 7260 Theory
DE: 7294 Seismic instruments and networks (0935, 3025)
SC: Seismology [S]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting