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The Digital Porous Media Portal (DPMP) [1], formerly the Digital Rocks Portal, has long served as a community resource for curated imaging datasets, experimental measurements, and simulations of subsurface porous media. To better support FAIR data principles and promote data reuse, the portal has undergone a major redesign built on the Core Portal Experience at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). This new infrastructure connects datasets directly with advanced analysis tools and simulation applications on high-performance computing (HPC) resources.
To facilitate image analysis workflows, DPMP now features a dedicated virtual machine (VM) at TACC. This enables users to process and analyze datasets entirely through a web-based Jupyter environment and without needing to download data. Through DPMP’s new Community Data resource, the portal team has shared a repository of instructional Jupyter notebooks designed to run directly on the VM. These notebooks demonstrate end-to-end digital rock physics workflows from image preprocessing and characterization to simulation and machine learning applications [2].
In addition to the VM, the redesigned portal provides a new Applications interface that allows users to launch computationally intensive simulations on HPC compute nodes. DPMP will soon feature the Lattice Boltzmann Methods for Porous Media (LBPM) software as the first of an extensive simulation suite. Web-based dashboards will enable users to set up and monitor simulations in real time directly through the portal.
By eliminating local computational bottlenecks and software installation barriers, the reengineered DPMP helps accelerate data preparation and post-processing, promotes reproducible workflows, and fosters innovations in subsurface porous media and energy storage materials. The portal redevelopment and associated workshops are supported by NSF grant RISE-2324786.
References
[1] Prodanovic, M., Esteva, M., Ketcham, R., Chang, B., Turhan, C., Gentle, J., Khan, S., & Belcher, V. (2025). Digital Porous Media Portal (DPMP) for Publication, Analysis, and Simulation of Porous Media Images. Digital Porous Media Portal. https://doi.org/10.17612/FGMN-D889
[2] Chang, B., Turhan, C., Farias, F., & Prodanovic, M. (2025). Digital Porous Media Tools (Version 1.0.1) [Computer software]. https://github.com/digital-porous-media/dpm_tools/tree/master
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