Developing a high-volume batch submission system for earthquake engineering

NEES is a network of 14 earthquake engineering labs distributed across the United States. As a part of the NEES effort NEESComm operates a comprehensive cyberinfrastructure that consists of the NEEShub and the NEES Project Warehouse. NEESComm provides consistent access to several High Performance Computing (HPC) venues. These venues include XSEDE, the Open Science Grid (OSG), Purdue Supercomputers, and NEEShub servers. In this paper, we describe the system we developed, Batchsubmit, which allows NEES researchers to make use of all these venues through the NEEShub science gateway.