Abstract

This document describes the system architecture for the NEESgrid project, the system integration element of the George E. Brown, Jr, Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES). The result of NEESgrid will be a collaboratory, or “laboratory without walls,” for earthquake engineering research. As illustrated in Figure 1, the NEESgrid collaboratory will link the national earthquake engineering community with up to twenty laboratories (see Figure 2), allowing teleoperation and teleobservation of experimental apparatus via the Internet (collectively,“telepresence”), access to data produced by these apparatus, and hybrid operations integrating physical and numerical simulations.
When completed, the NEESgrid collaboratory will enable four core capabilities. First, the collaboratory will link scientists to facilities to allow remote operation and observation of experimental equipment. Second, the collaboratory will link scientists to data to allow remote, shared viewing of real-time and archival data. Third, the collaboratory will link facilities with data, not only in the form of data repositories but also in the form of output from numerical simulations joined to physical simulations. Finally, the collaboratory will link scientists with other scientists, independent of time and location, to allow joint editing of documents, joint viewing of data visualizations, and joint operation and observation of physical and numerical simulations.

Metadata

publication

NEESgrid, Technical Report, 2003

year

2003

publication date

2003/5

authors

Carl Kesselman, Randy Butler, Ian Foster, Joe Futrelle, Doru Marcusiu, Sridhar Gulipalli, Laura Pearlman, Chuck Severance

link

http://www.neesgrid.org/documents/NEESgrid_SystemArch_v1.1.pdf

resource_link

http://www.neesgrid.org/documents/NEESgrid_SystemArch_v1.1.pdf

journal

NEESgrid, Technical Report