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CUREE

Issue No.: 11 - Fall 2001

CUREE is a nonprofit corporation devoted to the advancement of earthquake engineering research, education, and implementation.

CUREE to Develop the NEES Consortium

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he National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected CUREE, on the basis of a competitive process called for in NSF Solicitation 01-56, to develop the new organization that will manage the NEES Collaboratory. NEES, the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation, a major initiative of the Engineering Directorate of NSF, is now in the 2000-2004 “construction phase” (see page 2). NSF plans to operate NEES for at least the following decade. The NEES Consortium that will be developed during the CUREE project will manage NEES Collaboratory activities during that 2004-2014 timespan. See page 2 for a guide to NEES terminology. EERI and ASCE Partners with CUREE The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and the Civil Engineering Research Foundation (CERF) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) will be subcontractor organizations to CUREE. EERI’s role, directed by Susan Tubbesing,

In This Issue: p. 1: CUREE to Develop the NEES Consortium p. 2: The Construction of NEES p. 3: NEES Consortium Development Organization Chart p. 4: New CUREE Publications

President: André Filiatrault Vice-President: Roberto Leon Secretary: William T. Holmes Treasurer: Armen Der Kiureghian CUREE News Editor:

Darryl Wong

is to organize national workshops. CERFASCE’s role, directed by J. Peter Kissinger, is to engage engineering practitioners and other non-university constituencies in the development and operation of NEES. Consortium Development Plan has Ties To Other NEES Activities and the Earthquake Engineering Community CUREE’s plan for managing the $2 million consortium development award will be broadly supportive of the overall NEES program, rather than just promote the Consortium Development project. That broader NEES effort includes the System Integration project, multiple Equipment Site awards, and the ongoing management of the overall NEES initiative provided by the NSF NEES program officers and staff. The key players in this multi-faceted NEES developmental effort are summarized in the chart on page 2. Note that other research facilities and individuals who generate or use research will have opportunities to become involved in the NEES consortium development process through workshops, Working Groups, and at other virtual or in-person venues organized by CUREE under this award. Consortium Development PI and Co-PI’s For the Consortium Development project, Robert Reitherman, Executive Director of CUREE, will serve as Principal Investigator. Four Co-Principal Investigators direct key aspects of the project: Professor Stephen Mahin of the University of California at Berkeley; Professor Robert Nigbor of the University of Southern California; Professor Cherri Pancake of Oregon State University; and Professor Sharon Wood of the University of Texas at Austin. As depicted in the Consortium Development project’s organization chart on page 3, these Co-PI’s function as Task Group Leaders, assisted by Associate Task Group Leaders who further diversify the back-

grounds involved and provide a critical mass to energize the consortium development effort. As a group, the individuals shown in the organization chart constitute the Executive Council, which has designated authority in determining key decisions as the new consortium develops. Participation in Working Groups: Your Chance to Shape the Consortium Each of the four Task Groups has a number of Working Groups, or committees, which represents the grass roots level of the project where the initial shaping of alternatives for formation of the consortium will originate. The Consortium Development project will also help to define user requirements for System Intergration. The response form included here includes a description of each Working Group as a means of informing the broad earthquake engineering community about the project and recruiting active involvement. Consult the nees.org website for further information.

Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation NEES does not seek incremental improvement of earthquake engineering research: It seeks to revolutionize it. NEES will bring many new things to the earthquake engineering field: • curated data repositories • teleobservation and teleparticipation • data visualization • real-time multi-lab interaction • a national computational infrastructure • sharing of faciltities • rapid sharing of data and models

If it sounds different, it’s because it hasn’t been done before.

http://www.nees.org

Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering 1301 S. 46th Street, Richmond, CA 94804-4698 tel: 510-231-9557 fax: 510-231-5664 e-mail: [email protected] web: http://www.curee.org

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The Construction of NEES NEES Terminology

National Science Foundation (NSF) Priscilla Nelson: Division Director, Civil and Mechanical Systems - [email protected] Joy Pauschke: NEES Program Director [email protected] Tom L. Anderson: NEES Equipment Project Coordinator - [email protected] Website: http://www.eng.nsf.gov/nees/

NEES: The George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation, a Major Research Equipment (MRE) program of the Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation. NEES Collaboratory: the sum of the components of NEES as they operate in the research mode, scheduled to be fully functional by 2004 and operate for at least a decade. System Integration: Development of the network, computer services, curated repository, and applications that tie the distributed experimental sites and researchers together, scheduled to be completed by 2004. NEESgrid: The Grid-based architecture selected by the System Integration team for the network links, services, and applications to be used by the NEES Collaboratory. NEES Equipment Sites: Engineering laboratories funded by NSF to create or enhance experimental facilities to be used in the NEES Collaboratory. NEES Consortium: the non-profit entity that will manage the NEES Collaboratory.

System Integration

Consortium Development

Thomas Prudhomme, PI University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign [email protected]

Robert Reitherman, PI CUREE [email protected]

Jean-Pierre Bardet, Co-PI University of Southern California

Stephen Mahin, Co-PI University of California, Berkeley

Ian Foster, Co-PI Argonne National Laboratory

Robert Nigbor, Co-PI University of Southern California

Carl Kesselman, Co-PI USC/Information Sciences Institute

Cherri Pancake, Co-PI Oregon State University Sharon Wood, Co-PI University of Texas at Austin

Equipment Sites, Phase 1 Shake Table Facilities Michel Bruneau, PI University at Buffalo - SUNY [email protected] Ian Buckle, PI University of Nevada-Reno [email protected]

Geotechnical Centrifuges Ricardo Dobry, PI Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute [email protected] Bruce Kutter, PI University of California, Davis [email protected]

Tsunami Wave Basin Solomon Yim, PI Oregon State University [email protected]

Large-Scale Laboratories GOAL

GOAL

To design, develop, implement, test, and make operational the Internet-based, national-scale high performance network system for NEES, called “NEESgrid.”

To develop the NEES Consortium and its 10-year (2004-2014) plan for managing NEES.

NEESgrid will be a layered, modular architecture that is flexible and highly extensible and will enable rapid development of new end-user applications, the introduction of new services, and the integration of new simulation software and experimental facilities as they are developed.

The broad earthquake engineering community will be engaged in this start-up process, as well as in the eventual NEES Consortium.

Michel Bruneau, PI University at Buffalo - SUNY [email protected] Catherine French, PI University of Minnesota-Twin Cities [email protected] Jack Moehle, PI University of California, Berkeley [email protected] P. Benson Shing, PI University of Colorado, Boulder [email protected]

Field Experimentation and Monitoring Installations

WEBSITE

WEBSITE

http://www.neesgrid.org/

http://www.nees.org/ http://www.curee.org/

Kenneth Stokoe II, PI University of Texas at Austin [email protected] John Wallace, PI University of California, Los Angeles [email protected]

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NEES Consortium Development Organization Chart Project Assessment Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering Thomas Finholt CREW, University of Michigan Robert Reitherman, PI CUREE Executive Director

Organizational Development Consultant Andrew Neitlich The Sago Group

Task Groups

Networking and Facilities

Community Development

NEES Collaboratory Research

Consortium Organization

Cherri Pancake, Co-PI Oregon State University

Sharon Wood, Co-PI University of Texas at Austin

Stephen Mahin, Co-PI University of California, Berkeley

Robert Nigbor, Co-PI University of Southern California

Associate Task Group Leaders

Associate Task Group Leaders

Associate Task Group Leaders

Associate Task Group Leaders

Catherine French University of Minnesota

Thalia Anagnos San Jose State University

Phillip Liu Cornell University

Clifford Gabriel Office of Science & Technology Policy

Anke Kamrath San Diego Supercomputer Center

Dante Fratta Louisiana State University

David McCallen Lawrence Livermore NL

J. Peter Kissinger CERF-ASCE

Thomas O’Rourke Cornell University

William Holmes Rutherford & Chekene Susan Tubbesing EERI

Kim Roddis University of Kansas Working Groups

Working Groups

Working Groups

Working Groups

System Integration Liaison

Publicity and Outreach

Sharing of Facilities

National Workshops

Coordination of Training for Facilities and Researchers

University Involvement

Sharing of Data

Inter-Institution Budgetary Issues

Educational Aspects

NEES Consortium's Role in Facilitating Research

Governance

Transformation of Engineering Practice Federal Agencies and Applications Constituencies

Identification and Pursuit of External Projects

Consortium Establishment and Operations Ten-Year Planning

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Members Representing Institutions Professor Armen Der Kiureghian University of California at Berkeley Professor André Filiatrault University of California at San Diego Professor Wilfred D. Iwan California Institute of Technology Professor Jiann-Wen ‘Woody’ Ju University of California at Los Angeles Professor Helmut Krawinkler Stanford University Professor Bruce L. Kutter University of California at Davis Professor Roberto T. Leon Georgia Institute of Technology Professor Gerard C. Pardoen University of California at Irvine Professor Adrian Rodriguez-Marek Washington State University Professor P. Benson Shing University of Colorado at Boulder Professor Andrew Whittaker University at Buffalo - SUNY Professor Sharon L. Wood University of Texas at Austin Professor Yan Xiao University of Southern California Professor Solomon C. Yim Oregon State University Members Elected At-Large Professor J.-P. Bardet University of Southern California Professor Anne Kiremidjian Stanford University Members from Professional Practice Dr. W. Gene Corley, Construction Technology Labs, Inc. Mr. William T. Holmes, Rutherford & Chekene Dr. Minhaj A. Kirmani, Weidlinger Associates Inc. Mr. John Shipp, ABS Consultants / EQE SE Division

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Please check one or more NEES Consortium Development Working Groups in which you are interested in participating. To be put on a distribution list to be kept generally informed about the NEES Consortium Development project, check here:

Networking and Facilities Task Group System Integration Liaison Working Group Curated databases and rapid sharing of data are some of the issues related to the liaison between the System Integration project and the Consortium Development project. Coordination of Training for Facilities and Researchers NEESgrid will be new to earthquake engineering researchers. Laboratory facilities and researchers who will use those facilities and their data will require training.

Community Development Task Group Publicity and Outreach Working Group The potential NEES community is broader than the traditional earthquake engineering research community; “new faces” are actively encouraged to participate. University Involvement Universities are a core constituency for NEES. Regional Workshops hosted by universities will be held in all regions of the USA. Universities and researchers in other countries may also be involved. Educational Aspects NEES Collaboratory research will provide exciting opportunities for providing learning activities for all grade levels. Transformation of Engineering Practice In learning about NEES, practicing engineers will improve the way the profession conducts investigations, guides research projects, and designs facilities. CERF-ASCE will explore the coming opportunities and invites your participation. Federal Agencies and Applications Constituencies Seismic safety coordinators or researchers for federal agencies are an important constituency in using and funding earthquake engineering research.

Collaboratory Research Task Group Sharing of Facilities What kinds of policies must be set and enforced by the NEES Consortium to ensure the sharing of facilities that is required by a collaboratory? Sharing of Data Who has the rights to research results? How will publication credits be given when data can be instantly accessed? Consortium Role in Facilitating Research How actively should the new consortium facilitate research, without rigidly directing what is supposed to be a community-based, flexible way of conducting investigations? Identification and Pursuit of External Projects What new projects, funded outside of the consortium development project, should be fostered? Advanced instrumentation? Software? Experimental-simulation demonstration research projects?

Consortium Organization National Workshops Work with EERI to plan and organize two national workshops, with “virtual” participation and voting. Inter-Institution Budgetary Issues Sponsored research issues arise when researchers or students use other universities’ laboratories. Governance Should the new consortium have a strong board? A strong executive? Multiple steering committees for distinct programs? The experience of existing science and engineering organizations will be valuable input. Consortium Establishment and Operation Legal counsel is available to the project, but other input is needed to establish bylaws and begin interim operation of the new consortium. Ten-Year Planning The new Consortium must submit to NSF a ten-year plan (2004-2014), which will have farreaching effects.

Other: Describe your interests or background with reference to NEES if they do not fit the above categories:

name: address: telephone:

fax:

email:

To become involved in the NEES Consortium Development project, fax or mail this form (or a photocopy) back to: CUREE - 1301 South 46th St., Richmond, CA 94804-4698; tel.: 510-231-9557; fax: 510-231-5664; email: [email protected]; website: www.curee.org. Or access this form online and find more information on NEES at: www.nees.org

What’s NEES? It’s what’s next. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation NEES is an initiative of the Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation. The following 3 features of NEES are currently under construction: System Integration: An advanced network and computational infrastructure is being created to link up researchers and experimental facilities around the United States under an award granted to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Equipment Sites: Eleven major awards have been issued by NSF for shake table, tsunami wave basin, geotechnical centrifuge, field testing, and large-scale structural testing equipment. The awardees are: • University at Buffalo, SUNY • University of Nevada, Reno • University of California, Davis • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute • Oregon State University

• University of California, Berkeley • University of Colorado at Boulder • University of Minnesota • University of California, Los Angeles • University of Texas at Austin

Consortium Development: Under an award to the Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREE), the new NEES Consortium is now in formation. Participation in shaping that organization is actively being solicited from a wide range of potential NEES users: researchers, practitioners, educators, and others.

NEES will, for the first time in the civil engineering field, create a distributed set of next generation experimental facilities linked together and integrated with a high-speed internet-based computer network, curated data repositories, shared use policies, and a new simulation-based model for research goals. It will function not as a collection of laboratories and individual research projects, but rather as a collaboratory.

If it sounds different, it’s because it hasn’t been done before. For more information visit: www.nees.org Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREE) 1301 S. 46th Street, Richmond, CA 94804; tel.: 510-231-9557; fax: 510-231-5664 website: www.curee.org email: [email protected]