The Quakeworx Science Gateway

Amit Chourasia, Choonhan Youn, Fabio Silva, Bar Oryan, Chunhui Zhao, Jeena Yun, Napat Tainpakdipat, Fabian Kutschera, Akash Bhatthal, Francesco Serafini, Philip J. Maechling, Dave A. May, Ahmed E. Elbanna, Alice-Agnes Gabriel, & Yehuda Ben-Zion

Submitted September 7, 2025, SCEC Contribution #14857, 2025 SCEC Annual Meeting Poster #TBD

Quakeworx is a science gateway that provides an accessible, web-based cyberinfrastructure for the earthquake science community to seamlessly run, reuse, and contribute advanced computational tools for simulation and data analysis. Designed to reduce technical barriers and accelerate scientific discovery, Quakeworx enables rapid adoption of emerging methods while supporting reproducibility and FAIR data practices. The platform curates and delivers a growing suite of state-of-the-art earthquake modeling applications, including Broadband Platform, HFQsim, MooseFarm, pyCSEP, QuakeNN, SeisSol, Tandem, and UCERF3-ETAS. Additionally, utility and informational applications, such as Jupyter, RStudio, Linux Desktop, Earthquake Pages, and UCVM 22.7 with CVM-H, are also available. These applications can be executed seamlessly by users in either batch or interactive mode on project servers, national HPC, and cloud computing resources.

Key Gateway Capabilities
• Curated Apps and Pipelines – Preconfigured simulation and modeling tools ready to run with reference configurations.
• Curated Data – Shared datasets for benchmark problems and scenario simulations, with tracked provenance.
• Job Management – Monitoring and tracking of resource usage and job history.
• Publishing Tools – Support for publishing data, results, workflows, and reports with persistent identifiers in alignment with FAIR principles.
• Community Contributions – Users can upload new applications (via containers or executables), datasets, or publications directly through the browser.
• Access Control – Fine-grained sharing options allow users to keep resources private or share them broadly with the community.
• User Management – Integrated single sign-on (SSO) for institutional users across academia and government.

The project held a Kick-off Workshop in Jan 2025 that brought together 65 researchers, selected from over 150 applicants from 16 countries, for hands-on training. Since then, over 1,300 users have accessed the training materials. Two Tandem Hackathons in Nov 2024 and Jul 2025 contributed to extending Tandem capabilities with GPU support, benchmarks, and co-authored publications. Alice Gabriel’s “Advanced Seismology” course incorporated the applications on the Quakeworx for instruction.

The Quakeworx gateway is inviting early users to try the gateway capabilities and provide feedback. We anticipate launching a production gateway soon and conducting a second workshop to onboard new users.

Key Words
Science Gateway, Data management, Community models, HPC, Containers

Citation
Chourasia, A., Youn, C., Silva, F., Oryan, B., Zhao, C., Yun, J., Tainpakdipat, N., Kutschera, F., Bhatthal, A., Serafini, F., Maechling, P. J., May, D. A., Elbanna, A. E., Gabriel, A., & Ben-Zion, Y. (2025, 09). The Quakeworx Science Gateway. Poster Presentation at 2025 SCEC Annual Meeting.

Related Projects & Working Groups
Research Computing (RC)