nees 4 th annual meeting washington d.c., june 21-23, 2006

NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD

George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation

NEES 4th Annual MeetingWashington D.C., June 21-23, 2006

Anke Kamrath ([email protected]) Lelli Van Den Einde ([email protected])

Shannon Whitmore ([email protected])Ahmed Elgamal ([email protected])

http://it.nees.org

Current Status and Future Directions for NEES Cyberinfrastructure



Overview Overview of the Year for NEESit (Anke Kamrath)

NEES Cyberinfrastructure: Vision, Priorities, and People Accomplishments during FY06 NEESit @ 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)



Overview of the Year for NEESit

Anke Kamrath



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 -People Make it Happen

NEESinc BOARD OF DIRECTORS

IT StrategyCommittee

NEESinc HQExecutive Director

Chief IT OfficerData LibrarianWeb Master

NEES CyberinfrastructureCenter:

SDSC & partnersEquipment Sites1-2 IT Personnel

per site

Data DevelopmentData Development Infrastructure &Outreach

Infrastructure &Outreach

Telepresence,Collaboration and QA

Telepresence,Collaboration and QA

Software Architect

SW Development

Production IT Support Security

Officer

+ Contractor+ Contractor

SubKs

SubK



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

Infrastructure &

Middleware: DAQ Systems, Networks,

Storage, Servers, Security, Middleware

NEESCyberinfrastructure



FY06 Highlights NEEScentral: Growing data system with

active data management Significant NEEScentral Usage

>450 Accounts, >40 Research Projects https://central.nees.org Database backend with growing metadata

model and user interfaces (Currently >100 fields)

In-depth overview later in this session Collaboration and Outreach Tools:

WebEx (https://nees.webex.com) deployed Oct 2005

Quickly adopted as key planning tool for NEESR teams

NEES Site Activities (NAWI) deployed Nov 2005 https://central.nees.org/activities Watch what’s happening at all the equipment

sites! Videoconferencing via Internet2 deployed May

2006



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

http://it.nees.org/support/supercomputing/index.php 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



Highlights: Technology Outreach Community Code Repository (NEESforge)

http://neesforge.nees.org (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 #: 866-260-4100, Email: [email protected] Web: http://it.nees.org/support,

https://central.nees.org/help All issues logged in Fogbugz tracking systems



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



NEESit @ 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 10-15 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 http://it.nees.org/support/workshops/workshop_enduser.php

Overview of NEESit Software & Services, Organize and Manage Data, Participate in a Remote Experiment, Collaborate in a Distributed Project, Simulation and Hybrid SimulationFor more info about NEESit see http://it.nees.org



Demonstration of Data and Telepresence Capabilities

Lelli Van Den Einde & Shannon Whitmore



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



Computational Models

UW, UCB, & UCD

Prototype Structure

Outreach

SJSU

Data

Kansas



Prototype Structure

ComputationalModels

CentrifugeTests

FieldTests

Shaking TableTests

StructuralTests

Case Study: SFSI Pre-NEESR Project



NEES End-to-End Workflow

SDSC/ Teragrid computeresources

Internet2

WebExShare data, plan,

collaborate

Simulation

OpenSees

Experiment planning & prepShake

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 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 [email protected]



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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)



Telepresence Overview Researcher and/or Outreach Tools

NEES Activities Web Interface (NAWI) Promotes outreach of NEES research Integrates real-time video streams via

flexTPS https://central.nees.org/activities

flexible TelePresence System (flexTPS)

Real-time video from an equipment site Developed by Christopher Stanton http://assam.mast.umn.edu/portal

Real-Time Data Viewer (RDV) Real-time data viewing during an

experiment Collaborative development effort

between NEESit and University at Buffalo (Jason Hanley)

http://it.nees.org/software/rdv/index.php

Telepresence Middleware Data Turbine NEESdaq



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” <when they participated in the MAST test via WebEx, watching Wei's demonstration of RDV>



Feedback from Use Case Groups



Roadmap for Remainder of FY06Data 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



Roadmap for Remainder of FY06Telepresence/Hybrid Simulation

HighlightsDataTurbine 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



Looking For Feedback

Return comments on data model Contact Us!

[email protected] Toll Free: 866-260-4100 Submit bugs/feature requests:

http://it.nees.org/support



Future Directions for NEES Cyberinfrastructure

Ahmed Elgamal

nees 4 th annual meeting washington d.c., june 21-23, 2006

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