GEON Speaker Meeting SDSC, April 10, 2006

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GEON Speaker MeetingSDSC, April 10, 2006
NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center NEESit
Developing tools to support Earthquake
Engineering Research
Lelli Van Den Einde (lellivde_at_sdsc.edu) Assistant
Director http//it.nees.org
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Overview

• NEESit Goals
• Services and Outreach
• Software Overview
• Data Management
• Telepresence
• Collaboration
• Simulation
• Security
• End-to-end System Walk-through
• Questions

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NEESit Goals
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NEESit Goals

• Mission
• Advancing earthquake engineering (EE) research,
  education and practice through the use,
  development and support of information technology
• Service-focused organization
• User Support, Documentation, Training
• Outreach Community, International
• Software evolution and integration of
  high-quality software systems to meet needs of EE
  community
• Data Repository store, structure, share,
  preserve, search, mine, reuse
• Remote Participation telepresence,
  teleobservation
• Hybrid Simulation distributed experimentation
• Simulation/Computation supercomputing,
  OpenSees, integrate with data
• Collaboration file/application sharing,
  videoconferencing, exp. planning
• Visualization integration of simulation/physical
  data, enhance understanding

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Services and Outreach
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Services and Outreach

• Community Code Repository
• NEESforge deployed Dec 2005
• http//neesforge.nees.org
• Already actively used!
• High-end Computing
• Allocation received for SDSC DataStar and
  Teragrid resources in Oct 2005, deployed Nov
  2005. gt100K hours requested in first two months.
• User Support Services
• Guaranteed one business day response
• Toll free 866-260-4100, Email
  it-support_at_nees.org
• Web http//it.nees.org/support,
  https//central.nees.org/help
• All issues logged in Fogbugz tracking systems
• International Outreach
• Adoption of Software at EDgrid (EDcentral already
  deployed!)
• EU leveraging NEES DataTurbine and Telepresence
  solutions

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• Software Overview

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Central Services
Data Mgmt Data Repository Repository API
Facility Software
Security GridAuth
Data Mgmt Repository API NEESdaq
Telepresence NAWI
Security GridAuth API (client)
Client Software
Sim/Hybrid Sim HPC Allocation/ OpenSees
Telepresence flexTPS/ DataTurbine/RDV
Collaboration WebEx, Internet2
Data Mgmt Repository API
Sim/Hybrid Sim OpenSees/NTCP for MATLAB
Security GridAuth API (client)
Collaboration NEESpop
Telepresence RDV
Minimal adoption
Sim/Hybrid Sim OpenSees/NTCP for MATLAB
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NEEScentral Data RepositoryInitial Focus No
Data Lost

• Initial organization of research data
• Optimized for data authors
• Metadata stored in database
• Support for NEESR projects
• Data and metadata sharing
• Access control for project members
• Integration with remote clients
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• API for remotely and securely accessing
  andstoring NEEScentral data
• Data backups

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NEEScentral Data RepositoryTodays Focus

• Structure data
• Preserve and organize all data necessary to
  reproduce experiment
• Current Focus Metadata extension
• Driving forces
• Wood Pre-NEESR/UC Davis Data Report
• Kincho Law Data Model
• Bardet/Law/Kutter/Wilson Data Model
• Curate data
• Develop tools to prepare for publishing
• Support NEESincs data librarian
• Publish data
• Make an experiment available to the public
• Use data
• Enhanced searching
• Google
• Structured searching (via metadata)
• Automated data report creation
• Offsite backup of NEES data repository

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Telepresence

• Researcher and/or Outreach Tools
• Real-Time Data Viewer (RDV)
• Real-time data viewing during an experiment
• Developed by Jason Hanley, NEES-Buffalo
• flexible TelePresence System (flexTPS)
• Real-time video from an equipment site
• Developed by Christopher Stanton
• NEES Activities Web Interface (NAWI)
• Promotes outreach of NEES research
• Integrates real-time video streams via flexTPS
• Telepresence Support Tools
• Data Turbine
• NEESdaq

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Collaboration

• WebEx Virtual Meeting Management
• Synchronized presentations
• Application sharing
• Shared document editing
• Internet 2 Commons
• Video conferencing
• High bandwidth

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Simulation

• OpenSEES
• Simulation package supported by NEES
• UC Berkeley
• Supercomputer Allocation
• Actively being used by NEESRs
• OpenSees, Ansys, LS-Dyna
• Hybrid Simulation
• Coupling simulations with
• physical tests
• distributed experiments
• NEES Telecontrol Protocol (NTCP)
• Redesign of communication and security
  infrastructure in progress

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Security

• Motivation
• Increased collaboration and data access also
  increases risk!
• Researchers require adequate security
• Provide security but must be easy to use
• Security Requirements
• Single username and password for access to all
  NEES resources
• Single sign on only have to login once
• Solution GridAuth
• Authentication prove users identity
• Authorization does user have access to a
  resource?
• Integration programmers interface available for
  remote client integration

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• End-to-End Walk-through

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Experiment planning prep
Simulation
Remote researchers
Shake Table Test
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NEEScentral
Share data, plan, collaborate
SOA
SDSC computeresources
Data Turbine
On site researchers
NEESdaq
SingleShot
DAQ
DAQ
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3.
Field Test
Centrifuge Test
Public viewers
Remote participation in experiment
Organize Structure Data
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End-to-End Workflow

• Data Organization
• Organize local data
• Structure global data
• Curate global data
• Publish global data
• Data Use
• Propose innovative research
• Inform experiment planning/preparation
• Develop and verify analytical models
• Create visualizations for education/outreach
• Inform industry practice
• Educate students
• Participate in experiment (public)
• Share software

• Data Creation
• Plan Prepare Experiment
• Participate in meetings
• Share documentation data
• Participate in construction
• Run advanced simulations
• Acquire Data
• Execute experiment
• Execute hybrid simulation
• Participate in experiment (researcher)
• Analyze Data
• Post test comparisons

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End-to-End Walk-throughStep 1 Simulation

• Run Simulations (OpenSEES, Abaqus, Ansys)
• Supercomputer resources DataStar and Teragrid
• NEESit Allocation Request http//it.nees.org/sup
  port/allocations/index.php

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End-to-End Walk-throughStep 2 Experiment
Planning/Preparation

• Participate in meetings (WebEx, Internet2)
• Share and annotate documents/presentations
  movie
• Co-edit documentation
• Share documentation data (NEEScentral)
• https//central.nees.org
• Create Project give access to project team
  movie
• Upload documentation to project movie
• Browse project and download documentation
  movie
• Participate in Construction (flexTPS, WebEx)
• Minnesota
• http//assam.mast.umn.edu/perl/portal.pl
  movie
• https//central.nees.org/activities/

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End-to-End Walk-throughStep 3 Remote
Observation in Experiment

• Execute experiment
• Prepare for Remote Experiment (Data Turbine,
  NEESdaq)
• Equipment Site IT and NEESit
• Participate in experiment (researcher)
• http//it.nees.org/software/rdv/index.php
• Participate in experiment Dry-Run (RDV, WebEx)
• View synchronized data from experiment (RDV,
  WebEx) movie
• Participate in experiment (public)
• https//central.nees.org/activities/

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End-to-End Walk-throughStep 4 Organize
Structure Data

• Organize data (local) (NEEScentral SOA)
• Example UC Davis Data Report from Zipper Frames
  Project
• https//central.nees.org/index.php?projid12expid
  55elocDocumentation
• Example SingleShot movie
• Structure data (global) (NEEScentral)
• Collect all data necessary to reproduce
  experiment
• Map data from local to global repository
• Example Input Motion Data
• https//stage-central.nees.org/?projid69orgid55
  expid49trialid49orgid55expid49trialid49
  tlocMotion
• Example Project Level Data
• https//stage-central.nees.org/?projid69

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Data Use

• Share Data (NEEScentral)
• Perform Outreach (NAWI, flexTPS)
• https//central.nees.org/activities
• Share Software (NEESforge)
• http//neesforge.nees.org/ movie

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Leaving Thoughts

• Opportunities with GEON for
• Synergy and collaboration
• Leveraging of tools
• Contact me!
• lellivde_at_sdsc.edu
• [phone]

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Questions?