1. NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Enabling the NEESit Test Environment to Develop Tools for Earthquake Engineering Education and Research Young Researchers Symposium Oregon, August ___ 2006 Scott Diehl (sdiehl@ucsd.edu) NEESreu@NEESit http://it.nees.org

2. NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Overview  Background  Objectives  Current Status  Future Work

3. NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Background  What is NEES?  NEES is a shared national network of 15 experimental facilities, collaborative tools, a centralized data repository, and earthquake simulation software, all linked by the ultra-high-speed Internet2 connections of NEESgrid.  These resources provide the means for collaboration and discovery in the form of more advanced research based on experimentation and computational simulations.  What is NEESit?  NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center (NEESit) is a service-focused organization created to deliver information technology tools and infrastructure to enable earthquake engineers to remotely participate in experiments, perform hybrid simulations, organize and share data, and collaborate with colleagues.

4. NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation  What is the NEESit Test Environment?  A collection of small-scale experiment modules used to facilitate the testing of software components developed at NEESit  Modules include Mini-MOST I and Mini-MOST II  Modules demonstrate and simulate complicated engineering concepts on a small-scale Example: how a cantilever beam responds to various loads and how a building reacts to an earthquake Background

5. NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Background  Mini-MOST I 1x Actuator Steel beam LEDs (load cell 1, Strain)

6. NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Background  Mini-MOST II 2x Actuators Steel beam LEDs (load cell 1, load cell 2, Strain)

7. NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Objectives  Bring Mini-MOST I and Mini-MOST II into working condition.  Reconfigure the existing Labview code.  Enable the system to be accessible to external users.  Provide an education and outreach environment to demonstrate the software tools to the broader community.  Provide an environment where new software can be tested and perfected before being distributed.

8. NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Current Status  Learning National Instrument’s Labview and Matlab  Learning the NEESgrid software  Setting up Mini-MOST I & II  Resolving all bugs and errors with hardware/software

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

10. NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Future Work  Bring the modules online  Create a web page to allow researchers to control the modules remotely for live demonstrations and experiments  Applet will provide live video footage as the experiment takes place, as well as synchronized streaming data

11. NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Thank you