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The Development of the NEES Consortium 1CUREE

September 28, 2001 NEES Teleconference

NEES Consortium DevelopmentRobert Reitherman, PI

Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREE)

American Society of Civil Engineers

Earthquake Engineering

Research Institute

Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake

Engineering


Tom Anderson and Joy Pauschke, NSF

Tom Finholt, CREW, University of Michigan

Tom Coffin, Tom Prudhomme: NCSA

Steve Mahin, UC Berkeley; John Shalf, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory AccessGrid node

University of Kansas AccessGrid node

Darryl Wong, CUREE Webmaster

Thanks for arrangements for this meeting


Project Assessment

Thomas Finholt

CREW, University of Michigan

Organizational Development Consultant

Andrew Neitlich

The Sago Group


Engineering

Robert Reitherman, PI

CUREE Executive Director

NEES Consortium Development Project Organization Chart

Cherri Pancake, Co-PIOregon State University

Catherine FrenchUniversity of Minnesota

Anke KamrathSan Diego Supercomputer

Center

Network and Facilities

Associate Task Group Leaders

Consortium Organization

Robert Nigbor, Co-PIUniversity of Southern California


Clifford GabrielLiaison to OSTP

William. HolmesRutherford & Chekene

Susan TubbesingEERI

Community Development

Sharon Wood, Co-PIUniversity of Texas at Austin


Thalia AnagnosSan Jose State University

Dante FrattaLouisiana State University

J. Peter KissingerCERF-ASCE

Kim RoddisUniversity of Kansas

NEES Collaboratory Research

Stephen Mahin, Co-PIUniversity of California,

Berkeley

Philip LiuCornell University

David McCallenLawrence Livermore NL

Thomas O’RourkeCornell University


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Organizational Partners

Consortium of Universities for

Research in Earthquake Engineering



Largest and most multi-disciplinary civil engineering association






Earthquake Engineering Research Institute

Includes many other backgrounds in addition to engineers





Largest and most multi-disciplinary civil engineering association



CUREE Membership Base


J. Peter Kissinger, Senior VP

Mission: engineering and construction innovation

Entre to Institutes: Structural Engineering, Architectural Engineering, Construction, Oceans–Coasts-Ports-Rivers, and the Geo-Institute

Working Groups: Transformation of Engineering Practice, Federal Agencies & Applications Constituencies

Civil Engineering Research FoundationAmerican Society of Civil Engineers


Susan Tubbesing, Executive Director

Broad view of earthquake engineering

Experienced in focusing and representing community viewpoints

Strategic plan linked to implementation and NEHRP goals

National Workshops and consortium formation

Earthquake EngineeringResearch Institute


Our goals for today’s meeting, and beyond

What we expect from the System Integrator

What we expect from the Equipment Sites

What they expect from us (2-way street)

Clarify scope and coordination among awardees

A recruitment opportunity for our project

Begin to schedule and arrange next steps

Introduce the newest member of the NEES team


Project Assessment

Thomas Finholt



Andrew Neitlich

The Sago Group


Engineering



Introduction of the Task Groups




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Susan TubbesingEERI







Kim RoddisUniversity of Kansas



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Task Groups


Professor Stephen Mahin, Co-PIUniversity of California, Berkeley


Professor Philip LiuCornell University

Dr. David McCallenLawrence Livermore NL

Professor Thomas O’RourkeCornell University

Collaboratory Research Task Group



Working Groups: 1. Sharing of Facilities2. Sharing of Data3. NEES Consortium’s Role in Facilitating Research4. Identification and Pursuit of External Projects

Professor Philip LiuCornell University

Dr. David McCallenLawrence Livermore NL

Professor Thomas O’RourkeCornell University

Collaboratory Research Task Group

Professor Stephen Mahin, Co-PIUniversity of California, Berkeley


Networking and Facilities Task Group

Professor Catherine FrenchUniversity of Minnesota

Dr. Anke KamrathSan Diego Supercomputer Center

Professor Cherri Pancake, Co-PIOregon State University



Professor Cherri Pancake, Co-PIOregon State University


Working Groups: 1. System Integration Liaison2. Coordination of Training for Facilities and Researchers

Professor Catherine FrenchUniversity of Minnesota

Dr. Anke KamrathSan Diego Supercomputer Center

Networking and Facilities Task Group


Community Development Task Group

Professor Sharon Wood, Co-PIUniversity of Texas at Austin

Prof. Thalia AnagnosSan Jose State University

Prof. Dante FrattaLouisiana State University


Prof.Kim RoddisUniversity of Kansas



Working Groups: 1. Publicity and Outreach2. University Involvement3. Educational Aspects4. Transformation of Engineering Practice5. Federal Agencies and Applications Constituencies

Prof. Thalia AnagnosSan Jose State University

Prof. Dante FrattaLouisiana State University


Prof.Kim RoddisUniversity of Kansas

Community Development Task Group

Professor Sharon Wood, Co-PIUniversity of Texas at Austin



Consortium Organization Task Group

William HolmesRutherford & Chekene

Professor Robert Nigbor, Co-PIUniversity of Southern California

Susan TubbesingEERI



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Working Groups: 1. National Workshops2. Inter-Institution Budgetary Issues3. Governance4. Consortium Establishment and Operation5. Ten-Year Planning

Professor Robert Nigbor, Co-PIUniversity of Southern California


William HolmesRutherford & Chekene

Susan TubbesingEERI

Consortium Organization Task Group


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Professor Thomas Finholt

Director, Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work (CREW)

University of Michigan

Project Assessmentand Technology Facilitation


Project Assessment

Assessment Plan

Annual and Final Assessment

Technology Facilitation

AccessGrid, PlaceWare, Web, etc.

Organizational Development Consultant: Andrew Neitlich, Sago Group

Project Assessmentand Technology Facilitation

Professor Thomas Finholt

Director, Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work (CREW)

University of Michigan


Consortium Development Project Milestones(various required reports, assessments, plans, not shown here)

Website; workshops; outreach to broad earthquake engineering community

Form the NEES Consortium

Submit 10-yr Collaboratory operation plan to NSF

Interim operation of the NEES Consortium


Consortium Development Decisionmaking

An influential grassroots level: Working Groups

Co-PI’s as “vice-presidents” of divisions

PI overall “CEO,” but…

Executive Council given power to decide key decisions by majority vote

EERI “counts the votes” (2 National Workshops)

Decisonmaking rules of the NEES Consortium to be determined, but collaboration is a given


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Consortium Developer as Central Sourceof Information to Community about NEES

nees.org website (NSF + SI + ES + CD)

“CUREE’s” announcement of the Consortium Development award is actually a PR piece for all of NEES

Multimedia programs to be available; archive of images, video, etc.

“Organizational capital” of CUREE member universities (workshops, co-scheduling events)

CUREE Board of Directors hands-off policy


Taking Advantage of Opportunities to Advance NEES


CUREE Calendar for Year 2002:The Development of NEES


Newsletter announcement(printed and e-news)


All NEES Equipment Sites, and System Integrator,To be Highlighted Via Print and Website/email


Oregon State UniversityMultidirectional Wave Basin for Remote Tsunami Research

University of California, DavisGeotechnical Centrifuge

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute100 g-ton Geotechnical Centrifuge

Tsunami Wave Basin

Centrifuge Research Equipment


University at BuffaloHigh-Performance Hybrid Test Facility

University of Nevada, RenoMultiple Biaxial Shake TableResearch Facility

Shake Tables


University of MinnesotaMulti-Axial Subassemblage Testing System (MAST)

University of Colorado at BoulderFast Hybrid Test Platform for SeismicPerformance Evaluation of Structural Systems

University of California, BerkeleyReconfigurable Reaction Wall

Large Scale LaboratoryExperimentation Systems


University of Texas at AustinLarge Scale Mobile Shakers andAssociated Instrumentation

University of California, Los AngelesField Testing and Monitoring of Structural Performance

Field Experimentation and Monitoring




What we expect from the System Integrator

What we expect from the Equipment Sites

What they expect from us (2-way street)

Clarify scope and coordination among awardees

A recruitment opportunity for our project

Begin to schedule and arrange next steps

Co-PI Presentations and Discussion on Specific Aspects of the Project


next speaker: Stephen Mahin



Collaboratory Vision Task GroupProfessor Stephen A. Mahin, Co-PI

University of California at Berkeley


• Professor Philip Liu, Cornell University

• Dr. David McCallen, Lawrence Livermore National Lab

• Professor Thomas O’Rourke, Cornell University


NEES implemented as a collaboratory

The NEES Collaboratory will accelerate intellectual discovery in the field of earthquake engineering and improve seismic safety by:

Bringing researchers, educators and students together with members from the broad earthquake engineering, information technology and computer science communities

Providing them ready access to powerful shared-use, next-generation experimental, computational, information management and communication tools

Facilitating their interaction as if they were “just across the hall”

The diversity of talents, backgrounds, experience and disciplinary concerns represented within NEES Collaboratory will provide an unparalleled stimulus to intellectual inquiry.


Deliverables

Articulate in a white paper the vision of how the Collaboratory will function

Provide the “performance specifications” to the Task Group on Consortium Organization for what the Consortium must be able to do

Identify efforts external to the Consortium Development award’s scope needed to integrate the components of NEES into a successful whole

Aggressively seek funding for those external efforts, bringing together interested members of the community to work on activities


The Vision Thing

Adopt an approach that is: Strategic Systematic Holistic Inclusive

Build on previous work, and acknowledge expertise

Broad definition of community (Data users, research participants, facility operators, etc.)

Systematic input from organizational experts, NSF best practices, existing collaboratories, etc.


NEES will provide the earthquake engineering community ready access to shared-use, next-generation experimental and computational resources, as well as to curated data repositories, in order to accelerate the development and validation of model-based analysis.

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Address issues related to: Mission of Collaboratory Nature of Collaboratory

activities Infrastructure, resources

and activities required to realize vision

Policy and organizational features needed to realize vision

Mitigating barriers to success

The Vision Thing


The Vision Thing

A collaboratory is a network- enabled “…center without walls” in which the nation’s researchers can perform their research without regard to geographical location, interacting with colleagues, accessing instrumentation, sharing data and computational resources, and accessing information in digital libraries.”National Collaboratories: Applying Information Technology to Scientific Research [NRC, 1993]







• Research and collaboration functions before, during and after campaigns

• Quality of service issues related to collaboration tools and enabling technology

Collaboratory FunctionLevels

The Vision Thing







The NEES Consortium must:• Lead, coordinate and serve as the focal point for

NEES

• Operate all components of the NEES Collaboratory

• Operate under ten-year strategic, business and critical self-assessment plans,

• Operate under policies and procedures that address shared-use access, user fees, and operating cost reimbursement policies, etc.

• Enhance the interaction of the NEES Collaboratory with the earthquake engineering community to promote integrated experimentation, computation, theory, databases and simulation.

• Conduct/coordinate outreach and training activities

• Develop connectivity and interactions with other relevant sites located at US academic, federal and national laboratory sites & at international sites

• Pursue technology development opportunities

• Interface with NSF and other Federal agenciesNSF 00-56

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The Vision Thing

Engage broad community in development and evaluation of “critical parameters” and scenarios related to character and operation of Collaboratory

Community participation in writing and reviewing white paper on collaboratory vision

Close coordination with other parts of NEES program

Testbeds involving broad segments of the earthquake engineering community

Active identification and pursuit of funding opportunities







Working Groups

Sharing of Facilities Sharing of Data Role of the Consortium in Facilitating NEES

Research Identification and Pursuit of External Projects

Seek broad and diverse participation. Close collaboration with related SI, Site Council, EERCs, NRC and other groups, organizations and agencies.

Working groups will be phased out as they complete their charge. They may also be transformed, or new groups formed, to address emerging issues.

Initial Working Groups include:


Sharing of Facilities

What kinds of policies must be set and enforced by the NEES Consortium, or adopted by others, to encourage and ensure adequate sharing of facilities and other collaboratory resources? What policies should be established regarding user fees, cost reimbursement, operating budgets, etc.

Sharing of DataHow to facilitate sharing of metadata and data, while preserving appropriate policies related to intellectual property rights? What are these policies? What policies are needed to insure adequate quality and completeness of data? How to rapidly disseminate data (raw, archival, curated)? What is meant by data curation?

Working Groups


Role of the Consortium in Facilitating NEES ResearchHow 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 ProjectsWhat projects, funded externally to the current consortium development project, should be fostered to accelerate the realization of the collaboratory or enrich its vision?

• International cooperation?• Advanced instrumentation and other technologies

(evaluation, evaluation and deployment)? • Software (enabling middleware and applications)? • Experimental-simulation demonstration projects

(research, curriculum development, general education…)

Working Groups


Summary & Goals

NEES Collaboratory will fundamentally change the processes by which earthquake engineering research is initiated and executed, accelerate the generation and dissemination of basic knowledge, facilitate development of effective educational programs, and minimize the lag time between knowledge development and its application.

Milestones: Draft White Paper and initial parameter write-ups

on web by end of month 3 Evolving drafts, parameter statements and

scenarios updated on web Presentation and refinement at national workshop Final Draft in month 11

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next speaker: Cherri Pancake



Networking and Facilities Task GroupProfessor Cherri Pancake, Co-PI

Oregon State University


• Professor Catherine French, University of Minnesota

• Dr. Anke Kamrath, UC San Diego Supercomputer Center


Working Groups

System Integration Liaison Liaison with NEES Equipment Sites Liaison with System Integration team (Later) plan future operation of NEESgrid & sites

Coordinate Training for Facilities and Researchers Coordinate training: Sites operational before Oct 04 Plan for coordinating training 2004-2014 (Later) Recruit & integrate non-funded sites into NEES (Later)


System Integration Liaison Working Group

Initial issues Establish how liaisons will work

With equipment sites With SI team

Form WG and subgroups Identify time-critical concerns Develop blueprint for initial tasks

Establish mechanisms for facilitating communications within/among subgroups


Equipment Sites Subgroup

Tasks Work with sites to identify concerns/issues

about connecting to NEESgrid at various levels (network, service, application)

Ensure that final grid will be operable within funding and expertise constraints

Verify that user needs of community will be served


Discussion of Sites Liaison

Strawman for who should participate in Working Group Cathy French (Associate TG Leader) Plus 2-4 others from equipment sites

Selected by (but not necessarily on) Site Council

Half from Early Adopter sites Overall, must be representative of different

levels of experience/expertise


How liaison should work Can liaison be done through email and telecons?

Is initial face-to-face meeting needed? Should interactions be scheduled on fixed

period? How much detail should they see about SI plans?

Discussion of Sites Liaison


System Integration Team Subgroup

Tasks Track SI developments and interpret their

significance to CD Provide input to SI team on behalf of Consortium

and equipment sites Periodically review SI plans and update CD team Develop cost estimating factors for budgeting

future grid maintenance


Strawman for composition of Working Group Anke Kamrath (Associate TG Leader) Representatives from SI team

“System deployment/operations” (Rob Pennington?)

“User requirements” (Tom Finholt?) 2-3 (?) from “information components”

(Zalusek, Hardin, Parson, Futrelle?)

Discussion of System Integration Liaison


How liaison should workCan liaison be done through email and

telecons? Is initial face-to-face meeting needed? Should interactions be scheduled on fixed period?

Should all interactions between CD and SI teams be through this WG?

Discussion of System Integration Liaison


Initial issues: Form Working Group and subgroups

Identify time-critical concerns Develop blueprint for initial tasks

Establish how site (SI-provided) and researcher (site-provided) training will be coordinated

Establish mechanisms for disseminating information on training activities to audience groups

Working Group on Coordination of TrainingFor Facilities and Researchers


Tasks Review initial plans and provide feedback Ensure training needs of equipment sites are met Verify that timing coincides with site calendars

Discussion Should participation begin with Early Adopter

sites? Who else? Does Site Council already have input into SI

planning process, or will we provide that channel? When will initial training plan be available for

review?

Site Training Subgroup


Researcher Training Subgroup Tasks

Identify sites that will go on-line early Review their initial plans for training Work with them to identify procedures for

coordinating and publicizing training capabilities Discussion

Should participation begin with sites likely to go on-line first? Some more representative group?

At what point will sites have initial plans for training ready?

Is it reasonable to establish joint procedures for developing/reviewing training plans?


next speaker: Sharon Wood



Networking and Facilities Task GroupProfessor Sharon Wood, Co-PI

University of Texas at Austin


• Professor Thalia Anagnos, San Jose State University

• Professor Dante Fratta, Louisiana State University

• J. Peter Kissinger, CERF-ASCE

• Professor Kim Roddis, University of Kansas



Why does the success of NEES depend on the engagement of a broad earthquake engineering community?

How is the earthquake engineering community defined?

How will the community be engaged?

What do the Working Groups do?

How will input from the community influence the development of the consortium?

How will the Task Group interact with the System Integrator and the NEES Equipment Sites?


Why?

NEESgrid

NEES Equipment Sites


Why?


Who?

Researchers, educators, and students from colleges and universities with academic programs in civil or ocean engineering.

Practicing engineers

Researchers at federal laboratories

Building officials, emergency planners

State and government organizations


How?

Regional Workshops located throughout the US.

Publicize workshops and invite a variety of individuals who may not have participated in previous NSF workshops.

Provide information about the experimental, computational, and networking capabilities of NEES.

Brainstorm about vision for how NEES can be used.

Recruit participants to join working groups


What?

Publicity and Outreach University Involvement Educational Aspects Transforming Engineering Practice Federal Agencies and Applications

Constituencies


Educational Aspects

Get-Away Special concept used by NASA

Students propose simple experiments

Experiments “ride along” during a shaking table experiment


Impact

At least one member of the Executive Council will attend each of the regional workshops.

Brief reports will be sent to the appropriate working groups describing discussions.

Participants will join working groups. Remote participation is encouraged.


Interaction with System Integrator

Are the user surveys intended for users at the host institutions or remote users?

Is there a need to include user surveys in the regional workshops?


How do the community building activities differ from those proposed by the consortium development team? Can some of these activities be combined?

What are the minimum hardware and software requirements for a remote observer and a remote user?

Interaction with System Integrator


Interaction with Equipment Sites

What are the unique capabilities of your site?

How much time will be set aside for non-resident researchers?

What types of remote participation have you envisioned?

Have researchers from outside your university used your experimental facilities in the past?

What level of technical expertise do you expect the non-resident researchers to have?


Will visiting students be permitted to take classes?

Will housing be available on campus?

Will office space and computers be available?

Has a fee structure been established?

Will all experimental projects need to have at least one researcher from the equipment site as a Co-PI?

Interaction with Equipment Sites


next speaker: Bob Nigbor



Consortium Organization Task GroupProfessor Robert Nigbor, Co-PI

University of Southern California


• Susan Tubbesing, EERI

• William Holmes, Rutherford & Chekene

• Clifford Gabriel, Office of Science and Technology Policy (liaison)


NEES Consortium Organization

establish the NEES Consortium as a legal entity no later than October 1, 2003;

submit a proposal to NSF by October 1, 2003 covering NEES operation for the 2004-2014 decade.

Major Consortium Development Goals:


Major Issues

Development of a consensus-based vision and mission for “NEES Inc.”

What is an optimal organizational structure?

What is an appropriate financial model for NEES Inc?

What is an appropriate financial model for the NEES Collaboratory?

How do we transition the control of NEES in Year 3?

How do we define the operating parameters, in sufficient detail for a 10-year proposal, for something that does not exist yet?


Vision and Mission for NEES Inc.

A strong, clear vision is needed early to allow us to address the specific major issues

A well-defined corporate mission will facilitate operational and financial decisions for NEES Inc.

Both must be a focus of the first National Workshop


Organizational Structure


Financial Models for NEES Inc.

Source(s) of income Direct expenses Indirect expenses

Will NEES Inc. be a conduit for operating costs of the equipment sites?


Financial Model for the Collaboratory

How to structure use fees for equipment sites?

How to distribute income from equipment site use?

How to efficiently share operating costs?

How to deal with multi-institution budgetary issues?


Year 3: Transition to NEES Inc. Control

Interim operation of NEES Inc.

Handoff of NEESgrid products and system

Begin generating new research projects and proposals involving the NEES Collaboratory


Ten-Year Proposal

Guestimation of operating parameters will be difficult and critical.

How do we deal with uncertain issues such as maintaining, updating, repairing, and replacing hardware and software?

What are the opportunities for future funding outside of NSF and how do we factor this into a proposal?


Working Groups Within the Task Group on Consortium Organization

National Workshops and Community Consensus

Inter-Institution Budgetary Issues

Governance Structure

Consortium Establishment and Interim Operation

Ten-Year Planning



Project Assessmentand Collaboration Technology

Professor Thomas FinholtUniversity of Michigan


Year 1 deliverables

Survey of extended earthquake engineering community Researchers Practitioners

Issues: Consortium design NEES policies Interest in NEES Resources to support NEES use General attitudes toward collaboration and

resource sharing


Year 2 deliverables

Interviews Follow up after workshops

Focus groups During workshops Probe opinions about Consortium design and

governance


Year 3 deliverables

Usage Number of users Frequency of use Patterns

Impact Research productivity Practitioner awareness Public awareness

Evaluation metrics


Technology Support for CD team

Video conferencing H.323 Hardware or software multiple conferencing

unit (MCU) Polycom-based

Data conferencing Web-based Placeware


Technology Support of Community

Remote participation in meetings Placeware Streaming video and audio

Web site Usability assessment Discussion support Useful links Archives of:

Meeting minutes Critical documents


end of Consortium Development presentation of September 28, 2001 teleconference

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