Training the Next Generation of Seismologists: Delivering Research-Grade Software Education for Cloud and HPC Computing Through Diverse Training Modalities

Marine A. Denolle, Carl Tape, Ebru Bozdağ, Yinzhi Wang, Felix Waldhauser, Alice-Agnes Gabriel, Jochen Braunmiller, Bryant Chow, Liang Ding, Kuan-Fu Feng, Ayon Ghosh, Nathan Groebner, Aakash Gupta, Zoe Krauss, Amanda M. McPherson, Masaru Nagaso, Zihua Niu, Yiyu Ni, Rıdvan Örsvuran, Gary Pavlis, Felix Rodriguez-Cardozo, Theresa Sawi, David Schaff, Nico Schliwa, David Schneller, Qibin Shi, Julien Thurin, Chenxiao Wang, Kaiwen Wang, Jeremy Wing Ching Wong, Sebastian Wolf, & Congcong Yuan

Published June 5, 2025, SCEC Contribution #14111

With the rise of data volume and computing power, seismological research requires more advanced skills in data processing, numerical methods, and parallel computing. We present the experience of conducting training workshops over various forms of delivery to support the adoption of large-scale High-Performance Computing and Cloud computing to advance seismological research. The seismological foci were on earthquake source parameter estimation in catalogs, forward and adjoint wavefield simulations in 2 and 3 dimensions at local, regional, and global scales, earthquake dynamics, ambient noise seismology, and machine learning. This contribution describes the series of workshops, the learning outcomes of the participants, and lessons learned by the instructors. Our curriculum was grounded on open and reproducible science, large-scale scientific computing and data mining, and computing infrastructure (access and usage) for HPC and the cloud. We also describe the types of teaching materials that have proven beneficial to the instruction and the sustainability of the program. We propose guidelines to deliver future workshops on these topics.

Citation
Denolle, M. A., Tape, C., Bozdağ, E., Wang, Y., Waldhauser, F., Gabriel, A., Braunmiller, J., Chow, B., Ding, L., Feng, K., Ghosh, A., Groebner, N., Gupta, A., Krauss, Z., McPherson, A. M., Nagaso, M., Niu, Z., Ni, Y., Örsvuran, R., Pavlis, G., Rodriguez-Cardozo, F., Sawi, T., Schaff, D., Schliwa, N., Schneller, D., Shi, Q., Thurin, J., Wang, C., Wang, K., Wong, J., Wolf, S., & Yuan, C. (2025). Training the Next Generation of Seismologists: Delivering Research-Grade Software Education for Cloud and HPC Computing Through Diverse Training Modalities. Seismological Research Letters,. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220240413.