A Sustainable Collaboratory for Coastal Resilience Research

Our goal is to create a cloud-ready repository of
open-source coastal modeling tools which enable scientists and
engineers to use high performance computers to study a variety
of physical and ecological processes. The system we are building
leverages Jupyter notebooks, Docker, Singularity, and the Agave
Platform to create a platform for running jobs and analyzing data
in a way that is (1) intuitive, (2) repeatable, (3) and collaborative.

The paper describes the methodology to integrate the four
technologies into the system that serves the coastal resilience
research collaboratory. Two commonly used open-source numer-
ical models are used to demonstrate the utility of the system.
Simulation results of ocean waves generated by Hurricane Issac
(2012) and coastal wave evolution are presented as an illustration.
The sustainability of the collaboratory is discussed in detail.

本研究旨在构建适配云环境的开源海岸建模工具库，助力科研人员与工程师依托高性能计算机开展各类物理与生态过程研究。本项目所搭建的系统以Jupyter笔记本（Jupyter Notebook）、Docker、Singularity及Agave平台（Agave Platform）为技术支撑，打造了兼具（1）直观易用、（2）可复现、（3）协作共享三大特性的作业运行与数据分析平台。

本文详述了将上述四项技术集成至服务于海岸韧性研究协作平台的系统的方法论。本文采用两款主流开源数值模型对该系统的实用价值进行演示验证。文中以飓风艾萨克（2012）引发的海浪模拟结果与海岸波浪演化过程的模拟结果作为示例进行展示。此外，本文还对该协作研究平台的可持续性展开了详尽探讨。