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.