NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation NEES 4 th Annual Meeting Washington D.C., June 21-23, 2006 Anke Kamrath Lelli Van Den Einde Shannon Whitmore Ahmed Elgamal Current Status and Future Directions for NEES Cyberinfrastructure

NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Overview  Overview of the Year for NEESit (Anke Kamrath)  NEES Cyberinfrastructure: Vision, Priorities, and People  Accomplishments during FY06  Annual Meeting  Demonstration of Data and Telepresence Capabilities (Lelli Van Den Einde & Shannon Whitmore)  Background: Use Case Groups  Case Study: Pre-NEESR Soil-Foundation-Structure-Interaction Project  NEES End to End Workflow  NEES Data Model  NEEScentral Overview  Telepresence Overview  Roadmap for Remainder of FY06  Future Directions for NEES Cyberinfrastructure (Ahmed Elgamal)

NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Overview of the Year for NEESit Anke Kamrath

NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation NEES Cyberinfrastructure Vision and Priorities  NEES CI Vision  Drive the cutting-edge of fundamental and transformative research in earthquake engineering through the application of information technology  Broaden impact of research to researchers, practice and education through IT.  Information Technology Priorities  Robust remote participation environment  World class data repository  Collaboratory to enable integration of wide- ranging tools and applications (through web services) to facilitate new paradigms of usage, collaboration, and discovery

NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation NEES Cyberinfrastructure - People Make it Happen NEESinc BOARD OF DIRECTORS IT Strategy Committee NEESinc HQ Executive Director Chief IT Officer Data Librarian Web Master NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center: SDSC & partners Equipment Sites 1-2 IT Personnel per site Data Development Infrastructure & Outreach Telepresence, Collaboration and QA Telepresence, Collaboration and QA Software Architect SW Development Production IT Support Security Officer + Contractor SubKs SubK

NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation NEES Cyberinfrastructure Simulation: HPC allocations, large- scale data analysis, simulation, and modeling Community Databases & Data Collections: Data management, sharing, queries, mining and preservation Software: Web Services, Tools, Applications, and Community Codes Education: Earthquake Engineering education and training Outreach: Collaboration and community leadership with other large-scale projects RDV REU EDcentral flexTPS People: NEES consortium, researchers, equipment sites, practitioners, NEESit Inf rastructure & Middleware: DAQ Systems, Networks, Storage, Servers, Security, Middleware NEES Cyberinfrastructure

NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation FY06 Highlights  NEEScentral: Growing data system with active data management  Significant NEEScentral Usage  >450 Accounts, >40 Research Projects   Database backend with growing metadata model and user interfaces (Currently >100 fields)  In-depth overview later in this session  Collaboration and Outreach Tools:  WebEx ( deployed Oct 2005https://nees.webex.com  Quickly adopted as key planning tool for NEESR teams  NEES Site Activities (NAWI) deployed Nov 2005   Watch what’s happening at all the equipment sites!  Videoconferencing via Internet2 deployed May 2006

NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation  High-end Computing  200K Allocation received for SDSC DataStar and Teragrid resources Oct 2005  Active Usage from 12 research groups  Largest run using 2048 processors  OpenSees w/ custom domain objects and 25M elements  Available to NEES community  Telepresence Enhancements:  Expansion of tabular panel (spreadsheet style display of sensors)  Load/save a configuration  Pan/Tilt/Zoom support for video  In-depth overview later in this session  Automated Build and Test Environment  Deployed Jan 2006  Support high-quality, iterative development process More Highlights

NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Highlights: Technology Outreach  Community Code Repository (NEESforge)  (deployed Dec 2005)  25 Hosted Projects and 41 Registered Users  Environment for researchers to manage code on their own  Bug / feature tracking and discuss forum / mailing list  Version control system and documentation  Download  All open source  Pipeline for bringing community development efforts into NEES CI  NEESit User Support Services  Guaranteed one business day response  Toll free #: ,   Web:  All issues logged in Fogbugz tracking systems

NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation More Outreach Highlights  Strong International Partnerships  E-Defense (Japan), SAMCO (EU), KOCED (Korea), NCREE (Taiwan), and others  All groups interested in standardized data models for sharing data across distributed data repositories  Strong Interest in sharing software solutions and joint development efforts  EDcentral already deployed!  EU leveraging NEES DataTurbine and Telepresence solutions  Strategy: Let’s not compete over the CI – rather focus competition in research arena

NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Annual Meeting  Booth:  8:00am-5:00pm, Wednesday and Thursday.  No booth on Friday.  Demos: NEEScentral and RDV (punching bag)  "Meet a NEESit Expert“  Sign up sheet at the booth to schedule minute meetings with Lelli, Shannon, Wei  Training Workshop:  Friday 1pm-5:15pm  Accepting reservations until COB Weds (Today). Stop by booth or register on-line at  Overview of NEESit Software & Services, Organize and Manage Data, Participate in a Remote Experiment, Collaborate in a Distributed Project, Simulation and Hybrid Simulation For more info about NEESit see

NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Demonstration of Data and Telepresence Capabilities Lelli Van Den Einde & Shannon Whitmore

NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Background  Use Case Groups  Data: SFSI pre-NEESR project  Sharon Wood, Bruce Kutter, Dan Wilson, Adolfo Matamoros, Mahadevan Ilankatharan (Lanka)  Coordinated research project to study soil-foundation-structure interaction  Test different components of a two-span bridge assemblage at different scales with different boundary conditions  Project utilizes 3 NEES Equipment Sites (Centrifuge, Shake Table, and Field), Purdue Structural Tests, and UW and UC Berkeley Simulation  Focus for June release: UC Davis Data Report  Telepresence  Sri Sritharan, Laura Lowes, Jerry Hajjar  UMN-MAST pre-NEESR T-Wall test  WebEx meetings with each group every 2 weeks  Feedback informs development

NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Computational Models UW, UCB, & UCD Prototype Structure Outreach SJSU Data Kansas

NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Prototype Structure Computational Models Centrifuge Tests Field Tests Shaking Table Tests Structural Tests Case Study: SFSI Pre-NEESR Project

NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation NEES End-to-End Workflow SDSC/ Teragrid compute resources Internet2 WebEx Share data, plan, collaborate Simulation OpenSees Experiment planning & prep Shake Table Test flexTPS Remote researchers On site researchers Organize & Structure Data DAQ Field Test SingleShot* Centrifuge Test Public viewers Remote participation in experiment Data Turbine NEESdaq flexTPS NEES Site Activities DAQ RDV

NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation NEES Data Model  Goal: Preserve and organize all data necessary to reproduce experiment  Structured vs. Unstructured data  Driving forces  SFSI Pre-NEESR project (emphasis on Centrifuge/UC Davis Data Report)  NEES Reference Data Model by Peng and Law  Geotechnical Data Model by Bardet/Swift/Kutter/Wilson  Tsunami Data Model by NACSE/OrSt  ~70% of the model is common across all disciplines  Current data model being passed around now…  NEESit seeking feedback from researchers on this model  What works? What is missing?  Write down comments and return them to NEESit booth or send feedback to

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NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation NEEScentral Overview  Facility (SSDB migrated to NEEScentral)  Contact Info/Staff/Training and Certification  Equipment  Sensor Inventory and Calibrations  Research  Data IN  Project metadata (Page 8 of Handout)  Experiment metadata (Page 9 of Handout)  Setup: Material Properties (Page 10 of Handout)  Setup: Coordinate Spaces (Page 11 of Handout)  Setup: Sensor Location Plan (Page 12 of Handout)  Setup: Model (Page 12 of Handout)  Setup: Equipment Inventory (Page 13 of Handout)  Setup: Scale Factors (Page 14 of Handout)  Trial metadata  Setup: Channel List (Page 15 of Handout)  Setup: Input Motion (Page 15 of Handout)  Search Data (Page 16 of Handout)  Experiment Report (Starting on Page 18 of Handout)

NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Telepresence Overview  Researcher and/or Outreach Tools  NEES Activities Web Interface (NAWI)  Promotes outreach of NEES research  Integrates real-time video streams via flexTPS   flexible TelePresence System (flexTPS)  Real-time video from an equipment site  Developed by Christopher Stanton   Real-Time Data Viewer (RDV)  Real-time data viewing during an experiment  Collaborative development effort between NEESit and University at Buffalo (Jason Hanley)   Telepresence Middleware  Data Turbine  NEESdaq

NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Telepresence Kudos  MAST pre-NEESR T-Wall test  Invited remote researchers to participate in various phases of testing  Industry Partner (Susie Nakaki)  “With guidance from Wei, I found RDV very easy to use, and especially like the “drag and drop” plots that allowed me to look at information that interested me, independent of what the research team was viewing. This tool allowed me to participate over the course of several days, with minimal disruption to my business.”  European Union: ELSA Laboratory, Italy (Pierre Pegon)  “I am very happy with this version of RDV. I am now using telepresence for almost every test we are performing.”  University of Auckland, NZ  From Sri Sritharan: “The Auckland faculty were impressed”

NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Feedback from Use Case Groups

NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Roadmap for Remainder of FY06 Data Management Highlights NEEScentral 1.6 (August)  Support for field data model  Support for simulation data model  Bulk upload phase I  Sensor location plan  Channel List/DAQ  Significant extension of web services  To enable equipment site specific software for data ingestion  Advanced reporting capabilities  Generate Data Report in different formats (PDF, Excel, etc)  Generate spreadsheet from any table  Print from any web page NEEScentral 2.0 (October)  Support for shake table data model  Support for tsunami data model  Curate and publish experiment  Improved structured search  More metadata search options  Advanced unstructured search  Search files using Google search engine  Bulk upload phase II  Coordinate Spaces  Others as needed  Bulk download

NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Roadmap for Remainder of FY06 Telepresence/Hybrid Simulation Highlights DataTurbine 3.4 (July)  Extracted from NEESpop distribution  Repackaged as RPM  Bug fixes to Server and NEES utilities  Significant improvement to documentation RDV 2.0 (October)  High Resolution Still Images  Time-lapse movies  Extract X frames/second  Integration with NEEScentral  Save experiment data to repository  Replay experiment data from repository RDV 1.4 (August)  Discontinuous timeline  Filter downtime from display  Replay archived experiment data  Event Annotations  Mark events of interest Hybrid Simulation  Communications Framework (September)  Protocol  Library  Server

NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Looking For Feedback  Return comments on data model  Contact Us!   Toll Free:  Submit bugs/feature requests:

NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Future Directions for NEES Cyberinfrastructure Ahmed Elgamal