Yifeng Cui
San Diego Supercomputer Center
University of California, San Diego
University of California, San Diego
Computational Scientist
Expertise: HPC
About Me
Publications
Yifeng Cui, Ph.D. is a computational scientist at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, with educational backgrounds in meteorology and hydrology. His research interests are in high performance computing and extreme-scale end-to-end simulations. Cui co-developed the ACM Gordon Bell winning earthquake modeling AWP-ODC code, and was the receipt of the NVIDIA Global Impact Award in 2015.
SCEC Participation
Current Roles
SCEC Board of Directors, Core Institution Member (2022 - Present)Past Roles
SCEC Science Planning Committee, Group Leader (2012 - 2016)Cui, Y., Palla, A., Talreja, A., Koesterke, L., Zhang, W., Yeh, T., & Maechling, P. J. (2024, 09). Porting topography version of AWP-ODC to OLCF Frontier, with ROCm-Aware support to improve the performance of collective communication. Poster Presentation at 2024 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 13964
Callaghan, S., Maechling, P. J., Silva, F., Milner, K. R., Olsen, K. B., Graves, R. W., Goulet, C. A., Vahi, K., Deelman, E., Kottke, A. R., Cui, Y., Jordan, T. H., & Ben-Zion, Y. (2023, 09). Recent Enhancements to the CyberShake PSHA Platform. Poster Presentation at 2023 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 13216
Cui, Y., Roten, D., Palla, A., Govind, A., Callaghan, S., Norman, M., Koesterke, L., Zhang, W., & Maechling, P. J. (2023, 09). Progress of porting AWP-ODC to next generation HPC architectures and a 4-Hz Iwan-type nonlinear dynamic simulation of the ShakeOut scenario on TACC Frontera. Poster Presentation at 2023 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 13183
Strande, S., Wuerthewein, F., Altintas, I., Majumdar, A., & Cui, Y. (2022, 09). San Diego Supercomputer Center: Translating Innovation into Practice. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12607
Cui, Y., Callaghan, S., Ren, Y., Koesterke, L., Zhang, W., Norman, M., Roten, D., Maechling, P. J., & Goulet, C. A. (2022, 09). Porting AWP-ODC to next generation architectures: the Characteristic Scientific Application project. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12322
Roten, D., Olsen, K. B., Day, S. M., & Cui, Y. (2021, 08). Verification of Iwan-type Plasticity in the Discontinuous-Mesh GPU-powered Wave Propagation Code AWP. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11636
Roten, D., Olsen, K. B., Day, S. M., & Cui, Y. (2020, 08). Simulation of Multi-surface Plasticity in the Discontinuous-Mesh GPU-powered Wave Propagation Code AWP. Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10681
O'Reilly, O., Breuer, A. N., Cui, Y., Goulet, C. A., Olsen, K. B., Roten, D., Thomas-Collignon, G., & Yeh, T. (2019, 08). Simulation of elastic waves in the presence of topography using a curvilinear staggered grid finite difference method. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9882
Callaghan, S., Maechling, P. J., Goulet, C. A., Milner, K. R., Su, M., Graves, R. W., Olsen, K. B., Cui, Y., Aagaard, B. T., Wooddell, K. E., Kottke, A. R., Shaw, B. E., & Jordan, T. H. (2019, 08). New Advances in CyberShake PSHA Models. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9717
Cui, Y., Breuer, A. N., & Lenz, D. (2019, 08). Continued Integration and Delivery for AWP-ODC-OS in the public Cloud. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9698
Roten, D., Olsen, K. B., Day, S. M., & Cui, Y. (2019, 08). An Iwan-type Plasticity Model for 3D Simulations of San Andreas Scenario Earthquakes. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9617
Breuer, A. N., Cui, Y., & Heinecke, A. (2019, 06). Petaflop Seismic Simulations in the Public Cloud. Oral Presentation at ISC High Performance 2019. SCEC Contribution 9083
Cui, Y., Breuer, A. N., Konwar, R., & Lenz, D. (2018, 08). Unified and Continuous Software Development for AWP-ODC-OS. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8787
Bryan, J. T., Breuer, A. N., & Cui, Y. (2018, 08). Towards Seismic Inverse Problems Using Deep Learning. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8768
Breuer, A. N., Heinecke, A., & Cui, Y. (2018, 08). Fused Earthquake Simulations on Deep Learning Hardware. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8760
Roten, D., Olsen, K. B., Day, S. M., & Cui, Y. (2018, 08). Implementation of Iwan-type Plasticity Model in AWP-ODC. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8731
O'Reilly, O., Breuer, A. N., Cui, Y., Goulet, C. A., & Olsen, K. B. (2018, 08). Towards topography in AWP-ODC. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8694
Maechling, P. J., Bielak, J., Callaghan, S., Cui, Y., Field, E. H., Goulet, C. A., Graves, R. W., Jordan, T. H., Milner, K. R., Olsen, K. B., Roten, D., Savran, W. H., Silva, F., Su, M., Taborda, R., & Vidale, J. E. (2018, 08). The SCEC Software Ecosystem for Earthquake System Science Research. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8582
Taborda, R., Olsen, K. B., Graves, R. W., Silva, F., Khoshnevis, N., Savran, W. H., Roten, D., Shi, Z., Goulet, C. A., Bielak, J., Maechling, P. J., Cui, Y., & Jordan, T. H. (2018, 06). High-frequency simulations: Verification and validation of the M5.1 La Habra, CA, earthquake. Oral Presentation at 11th National Conference in Earthquake Engineering. SCEC Contribution 7990
Lenz, D., Tobin, J., Breuer, A. N., Heinecke, A., Yount, C., & Cui, Y. (2017, 08). Tuning AWP-ODC-OS for efficient, scalable performance on manycore architectures. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7813
Cui, Y., Mu, D., & Roten, D. (2017, 08). SEISM-IO: A High Level Parallel I/O Library for High-Performance Seismic Applications. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7809
Mu, D., Cicotti, P., & Cui, Y. (2017, 08). Manage I/O Task in a Normalized Cross-Correlation Earthquake Detection Code for Large Seismic Datasets. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7711
Breuer, A. N., Heinecke, A., & Cui, Y. (2017, 08). Fused Seismic Simulations with the Discontinuous Galerkin Method at Extreme-Scale. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7644
Pekurovsky, D., Chourasia, A., Richards-Dinger, K. B., Shaw, B. E., Dieterich, J. H., & Cui, Y. (2017, 08). Performance enhancements and visualization for RSQSim earthquake simulator. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7596
Callaghan, S., Graves, R. W., Olsen, K. B., Cui, Y., Milner, K. R., Goulet, C. A., Maechling, P. J., & Jordan, T. H. (2017, 08). 10 years of CyberShake: Where are we now and where are we going with physics-based PSHA?. Oral Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7394
Pekurovsky, D., Chourasia, A., Richards-Dinger, K. B., Shaw, B. E., Dieterich, J. H., & Cui, Y. (2016, 08). Performance enhancements and visualization for RSQSim earthquake simulator. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6933
Callaghan, S., Maechling, P. J., Goulet, C. A., Vahi, K., Graves, R. W., Olsen, K. B., Milner, K. R., Gill, D., Cui, Y., & Jordan, T. H. (2016, 08). CyberShake Advancements: Broadband Seismograms and Central California Sites. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6874
Tobin, J., Breuer, A. N., Yount, C., Heinecke, A., & Cui, Y. (2016, 08). Accelerating AWP-ODC-OS Using Intel Xeon Phi Processors. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6795
Breuer, A. N., Heinecke, A., & Cui, Y. (2016, 08). Recent Advances of the ADER-DG Finite Element Method for Seismic Simulations. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6779
Roten, D., Olsen, K. B., Day, S. M., & Cui, Y. (2016, 08). High-Frequency Nonlinear Simulations of Southern San Andreas Earthquake Scenarios. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6716
Cui, Y., Roten, D., Wang, P., Mu, D., Pearson, C., Withers, K. B., Savran, W. H., Olsen, K. B., Day, S. M., & Hwu, W. (2016, 08). Recent Improvements to AWP-ODC-GPU supported by Blue Waters PAID Program. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6711
Mu, D., Breuer, A. N., Tobin, J., Zhou, H., & Cui, Y. (2016, 08). AWP-ODC Open Source Project. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6663
Taborda, R., Olsen, K. B., Graves, R. W., Silva, F., Khoshnevis, N., Savran, W. H., Roten, D., Shi, Z., Goulet, C. A., Bielak, J., Maechling, P. J., Cui, Y., & Jordan, T. H. (2016, 09). Verification and Validation of High-Frequency (fmax = 5 Hz) Ground Motion Simulations of the 2014 M 5.1 La Habra, California, earthquake. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6475
Cui, Y. (2013). Accelerating CyberShake Calculations on the XE6/XK7 Platform of Blue Waters. Poster Presentation at NSF Extreme Scaling Workshop. SCEC Contribution 1761
Cui, Y., Olsen, K. B., Zhu, J., Day, S. M., Maechling, P. J., Dalguer, L. A., Kaiser, T. H., Jordan, T. H., Chourasia, A., & Moore, R. W. (2008). SCEC ShakeOut Simulations: Dynamic Source Effects. Oral Presentation at 2008 TeraGrid Conference. SCEC Contribution 1191
Roten, D., Yeh, T., Olsen, K. B., Day, S. M., & Cui, Y. (2023). Implementation of Iwan-Type Nonlinear Rheology in a 3D High-Order Staggered-Grid Finite-Difference Method. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America,. doi: 10.1785/0120230011. SCEC Contribution 13305
Jordan, T. H., Callaghan, S., Graves, R. W., Wang, F., Milner, K. R., Goulet, C. A., Maechling, P. J., Olsen, K. B., Cui, Y., Juve, G., Vahi, K., Yu, J., Deelman, E., & Gill, D. (2018, 06). CyberShake Models of Seismic Hazards in Southern and Central California. Oral Presentation at Eleventh U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering. SCEC Contribution 8991
Roten, D., Olsen, K. B., Day, S. M., & Cui, Y. (2017). Quantification of Fault-Zone Plasticity Effects with Spontaneous Rupture Simulations. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 174(9), 3369-3391. doi: 10.1007/s00024-017-1466-5. SCEC Contribution 8863
Roten, D., Olsen, K. B., Day, S. M., Cui, Y., & Fäh, D. (2014). Expected seismic shaking in Los Angeles reduced by San Andreas fault zone plasticity. Geophysical Research Letters, 41(8), 2769-2776. doi: 10.1002/2014GL059411. SCEC Contribution 2102
Poyraz, E., Xu, H., & Cui, Y. (2014). Application-specific I/O optimizations on petascale supercomputers. Procedia Computer Science, 29, 910-923. doi: 10.1016/j.procs.2014.05.082. SCEC Contribution 2036
Xu, H., Cui, Y., Dieterich, J. H., Richards-Dinger, K. B., Poyraz, E., & Choi, D. (2014). Aftershock sequence simulations using synthetic earthquakes and rate-state seismicity formulation. Earthquake Science, 27(4), 401-410. doi: 10.1007/s11589-014-0087-7. SCEC Contribution 2033
Roten, D., Olsen, K. B., Day, S. M., Cui, Y., & Fäh, D. (2014). Expected seismic shaking in Los Angeles reduced by San Andreas fault zone plasticity. Geophysical Research Letters, 41(8), 2769-2777. doi: 10.1002/2014GL059411. SCEC Contribution 2000
Scheitlin, T., Domingo, P., Olsen, K. B., Sarvan, W., Cui, Y., Poyraz, E., Maechling, P. J., & Jordan, T. H. (2013, 11). Simulated Wave Propagation for the Mw5.4 Chino Hills, CA, Earthquake, Including a Statistical Model of Small-Scale Heterogeneities. Poster Presentation at SC2013 Visualization Showcase. SCEC Contribution 2035
Callaghan, S., Maechling, P. J., Vahi, K., Juve, G., Deelman, E., Cui, Y., Poyraz, E., & Jordan, T. H. (2013, 11). Running A Seismic Workflow Application on Distributed Resources. Poster Presentation at SC13. SCEC Contribution 1843
Cui, Y. (2013). Multi-GPU Implementation of a 3D Finite Difference Time Domain Earthquake Code on Heterogeneous Supercomputers. Procedia Computer Science, 18, 1255-1264. doi: 10.1016/j.procs.2013.05.292. SCEC Contribution 1760
Cui, Y., Poyraz, E., Olsen, K. B., Zhou, J., Withers, K. B., Callaghan, S., Larkin, J., Guest, C., Choi, D., Chourasia, A., Shi, Z., Day, S. M., Maechling, P. J., & Jordan, T. H. (2013, 11). Physics-based Seismic Hazard Analysis on Petascale Heterogeneous Supercomputers. Oral Presentation at SC13. doi: 10.1145/2503210.2503300. SCEC Contribution 1753
Cui, Y., Olsen, K. B., Zhou, J., Small, P., Chourasia, A., Day, S. M., Maechling, P. J., & Jordan, T. H. (2012). Development and optimizations of a SCEC community anelastic wave propagation platform for multicore systems and GPU-based accelerators. Seismological Research Letters, 83(2), 396. SCEC Contribution 1851
Christen, M., Schenk, O., & Cui, Y. (2012, 11). PATUS: Parallel Auto-Tuned Stencils For Scalable Earthquake Simulation Codes. Oral Presentation at SC12. SCEC Contribution 1790
Cui, Y. (2012). Role of Visualization in porting a seismic simulation from CPU to GPU architecture. Poster Presentation at XSEDE Conference 2012. SCEC Contribution 1759
Cui, Y. (2012). GPU Accelearation of a 3D Finite Difference Earthquake Code on XSEDE Keeneland. Oral Presentation at XSEDE Conference 2012. SCEC Contribution 1758
Cui, Y. (2012). Hands-on Performance Tuning of 3D Finite Difference Earthquake Simulation on GPU Fermi Chipset. Oral Presentation at International Conference on Computational Science 2012. SCEC Contribution 1757
Unat, D., Zhou, J., Cui, Y., Cai, X., & Baden, S. B. (2012). Accelerating an Earthquake Simulation with a C-to-CUDA Translator. Computing in Science and Engineering, 14(3), 48-58. doi: 10.1109/MCSE.2012.44. SCEC Contribution 1756
Cui, Y., Olsen, K. B., Jordan, T. H., Lee, K., Zhou, J., Small, P., Ely, G. P., Roten, D., Panda, D. K., Chourasia, A., Levesque, J., Day, S. M., & Maechling, P. J. (2011). Scalable Earthquake Simulation on Petascale Supercomputers. Oral Presentation at 2010 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. doi: 10.1109/SC.2010.45. SCEC Contribution 1507
Zhou, J., Cui, Y., Davis, S., Guest, C. C., & Maechling, P. J. (2010). Workflow-based high performance data transfer and ingestion to petascale simulations on TeraGrid. Oral Presentation at IEEE Third International Joint Conference on Computational Sciences and Optimization. doi: 10.1109/CSO.2010.235. SCEC Contribution 1508
Cui, Y., Olsen, K. B., Jordan, T. H., Lee, K., Zhou, J., Small, P., Roten, D., Ely, G. P., Panda, D. K., Chourasia, A., Levesque, J., Day, S. M., & Maechling, P. J. (2010). Scalable Earthquake Simulation on Petascale Supercomputers. Oral Presentation at SC10 International Conference for HPC, Networking and Analysis. doi: 10.1109/SC.2010.45. SCEC Contribution 1443
Bielak, J., Graves, R. W., Olsen, K. B., Taborda, R., Ramirez-Guzman, L., Day, S. M., Ely, G. P., Roten, D., Jordan, T. H., Maechling, P. J., Urbanic, J., Cui, Y., & Juve, G. (2010). The ShakeOut Earthquake Scenario: Verification of Three Simulation Sets. Geophysical Journal International, 180(1), 375--404. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04417.x. SCEC Contribution 1260
Olsen, K. B., Day, S. M., Dalguer, L. A., Mayhew, J. E., Cui, Y., Zhu, J., Cruz-Atienza, V. M., Roten, D., Maechling, P. J., Jordan, T. H., Okaya, D. A., & Chourasia, A. (2009). ShakeOut-D: Ground Motion Estimates Using an Ensemble of Large Earthquakes on the Southern San Andreas Fault With Spontaneous Rupture Propagation . Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L04304 1-6. doi: 10.1029/2008GL036832. SCEC Contribution 1255
Cui, Y., & Maechling, P. J. (2009). The TeraShake Computational Platform for Large-Scale Earthquake Simulations. In H. Xing (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences: Advances in Geocomputing, (, pp. 229-278) , : Springer-Verlag doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-85879-9_7. SCEC Contribution 1195
Cui, Y., Moore, R. W., Olsen, K. B., Chourasia, A., Maechling, P. J., Minster, J. B., Day, S. M., Hu, Y., Zhu, J., & Jordan, T. H. (2009). Towards Petascale Earthquake Simulations. Acta Geotechnica, 4(July), 79-93. doi: 10.1007/s11440-008-0055-2. SCEC Contribution 1114
Maechling, P. J., Deelman, E., & Cui, Y. (2008). Implementing High Performance Computing Simulation Software Acceptance Tests as Scientific Workflows. Presentation at International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis 2008. SCEC Contribution 1253
Olsen, K. B., Day, S. M., Minster, J. B., Cui, Y., Chourasia, A., Okaya, D. A., Maechling, P. J., & Jordan, T. H. (2008). Spontaneous Rupture Simulations of Mw7.7 Earthquakes on the Southern San Andreas Fault. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 98, 1162-1185. doi: 10.1785/0120070148. SCEC Contribution 1148
Faerman, M., Moore, R. W., Cui, Y., Hu, Y., Zhu, J., Minster, J. B., & Maechling, P. J. (2007). Managing Large Scale Data for Earthquake Simulations. Journal of Grid Computing, 5(3), 295-302. doi: 10.1007/s10723-007-9072-x. SCEC Contribution 1116
Cui, Y., Moore, R. W., Olsen, K. B., Chourasia, A., Maechling, P. J., Minster, J. B., Day, S. M., Hu, Y., Zhu, J., Majumdar, A., & Jordan, T. H. (2007). Enabling Very-Large Scale Earthquake Simulations on Parallel Machines . Advancing Science and Society through Computation:Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, 46-53. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-72584-8. SCEC Contribution 1115
Chourasia, A., Cutchin, S., Cui, Y., Moore, R. W., Olsen, K. B., Day, S. M., Minster, J. B., Maechling, P. J., & Jordan, T. H. (2007). Visual Insights into High-Resolution Earthquake Simulations . IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications: Discovering the Unexpected, 27(5), 28-34. doi: 10.1109/MCG.2007.138. SCEC Contribution 1085
Muench, J., Maechling, P. J., Francoeur, H., Okaya, D. A., & Cui, Y. (2006). SCEC Earthworks Science Gateway: Widening SCEC Community Access to the TeraGrid. Poster Presentation at 2006 TeraGrid Conference. SCEC Contribution 989
Olsen, K. B., Day, S. M., Minster, J. B., Cui, Y., Chourasia, A., Faerman, M., Moore, R. W., Maechling, P. J., & Jordan, T. H. (2006). Strong Shaking in Los Angeles Expected From Southern San Andreas Earthquake. Geophysical Research Letters, 33(L07305). doi: 10.1029/2005GL025472. SCEC Contribution 961
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