World Forum on Collaborative Research in Earthquake Engineering

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World Forum on Collaborative Research in
Earthquake Engineering
Working Group 2 Cyberinfrastructure

• Jerome F. Hajjar
• IT Director, MUST-SIM Facility, NEES_at_Illinois
• Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA

NEES Annual Meeting, June 23, 2006 Washington,
D.C.
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Working Group 2 Objectives

• Explore functionalities for software to improve
  international collaborative research and
  education programs in earthquake engineering.
  Identify the barriers that have hindered
  effective collaboration and discuss how
  technological solutions can assist in overcoming
  these barriers.

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Working Group 2 Presentations

• Co-Chairs Jerome F. Hajjar, University of
  Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA
• Pierre Pegon, European Laboratory for
  Structural Assessment, Ispra, Italy
• Satoshi Sekiguchi, Agency of Industrial
  Science and Technology, Japan
• Recorder Jerome P. Lynch, University of
  Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Joy Pauschke, National Science Foundation, USA
• Cliff Roblee, NEES, Inc., Davis, California, USA
• Shannon Whitmore, NEESit, San Diego, California,
  USA
• Heon-Young Yeom, Seoul National University,
  Seoul, Korea
• K.-J. Wang, Natl. Center for Res. on Earthquake
  Engrg., Taipai, Taiwan
• Martin Williams, University of Oxford, Oxford,
  U.K.
• Bambang Budiono, Bandung Institute of Technology,
  Bandung, Indonesia
• Gregory Deierlein, Stanford University, Stanford,
  California, USA
• Jason Ingham, University of Auckland, Auckland,
  New Zealand
• Zifa Wang, Institute for Engineering Mechanics,
  China
• Kazuhiko Kawashima, Tokyo Institute of
  Technology, Tokyo, Japan
• Reggie DesRoches, Georgia Institute of
  Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
• Andrea Prota, University of Naples Frederico II,
  Naples, Italy
• Stephen Mahin, University of California,
  Berkeley, California, USA
• James Myers, University of Illinois, Urbana,
  Illinois, USA

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WG 2 Framework Current Status

• Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure
• Current Status Worldwide
• Collaboration is Essential
• Enables ease of idea, process, and data exchange
  (within and between disciplines), preservation of
  data, and development of new modes of creation to
  enable new discoveries
• Breadth of collaboration
• Narrow (or passive) exchange of data
• Broad (or active) harness capabilities at
  international sites eliminating parochial
  group-think opportunities for students in a
  global world
• Depth of collaboration
• Micro collaboration small group projects to
  solve micro-level international earthquake
  engineering (EE) problems new systems, new
  education
• Macro collaboration grand challenge to solve
  macro-level international EE problems ?
  collaboration permits large-scale
• Enables not reinventing capabilities,
  country-by-country

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WG 2 Framework Current Status

• Collaboration is Easy
• Most researchers and many countries are
  interested in and are actively participating in
  collaborative earthquake engineering research
• Earthquake engineering field is positioned well
  for collaboration
• Few national secrets
• Important (in varying degrees) worldwide
• Many countries are actively building out their EE
  infrastructure (testing, analysis, cyber)
• Excellent educational/outreach opportunities

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WG 2 Framework Current Status

• Collaboration is Hard
• Technological cost, management, time
• Cost software development and maintenance
  (diverse and complex user needs, open source,
  multi-lingual, etc.) hardware to start-up
  internationally networking capabilities
  worldwide
• In a heterogeneous environment, is the lowest
  common denominator too low?
• Management not possible to manage status quo in
  software development
• Develop and maintain IT and EE partnerships
  internationally
• Time information overload spanning time zones
• Sociological
• University culture promotion/tenure/turf
  battles
• Human culture we collaborate more with those
  like us
• Priorities and Policies
• Individual vs. multi-institutional vs. global
  discoveries
• Are we stifling individual creativity as we go
  more collaborative?
• Synchronization of worldwide funding

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WG 2 Framework Current Status

• Current Strategies
• In U.S. OCI established cyberinfrastructure
  development underway
• International data repository (NEESit, etc.)
• Several countries and EU considering developing
  standards and protocols

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WG 2 Framework ACTION

• RESOLUTIONS
• The international earthquake engineering
  community embraces collaboration through
  cyberinfrastructure as fundamental to the future
  success of earthquake engineering discoveries and
  education. Broad funding is recommended for
  achieving international earthquake engineering
  needs within cyberinfrastructure.
• New international collaborative research and
  education programs should be established within
  earthquake engineering to harness current
  worldwide investment in cyberinfrastructure,
  experimental and computational simulation, and
  collaboration tools within earthquake
  engineering, inclusive of countries at all levels
  of advancement in these fields.
• International earthquake engineering
  collaboratories should form an alliance to
  facilitate establishing worldwide objectives and
  strategies, and disseminating worldwide
  achievements via cyberinfrastructure and
  collaboration.

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WG 2 Framework ACTION

• RESOLUTIONS (cont.)
• Current cyberinfrastructure activities within
  earthquake engineering offer a testbed for
  highlighting successes and challenges of adapting
  cyber-tools within research and education. The
  international community should document and learn
  from the successes and challenges in usage of
  collaborative cyberinfrastructure activities
  within NEES-like environments worldwide. SHORT
  TERM
• As a first step in international
  cyber-collaboration, a catalog of laboratory
  expertise, capabilities, and streaming status
  should be established to set the stage worldwide
  for international collaboration in earthquake
  engineering. SHORT TERM
• The earthquake engineering community and funding
  agencies are encouraged to support one or more
  pilot projects that leverage current activities
  to accelerate the development and deployment of
  transformative tools, procedures, and best
  practices for harnessing cyberinfrastructure for
  collaboration within the earthquake engineering
  community. SHORT TERM

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WG 2 Framework ACTION

• One or more Pilot Projects to allow the EE/IT
  teams to work towards international
  collaboration
• Strawman Document
• Describe a hypothetical international research
  collaboration from start to finish
• Enumerate a list of required cyberenvironment
  collaboration tools to facilitate international
  collaboration for both large facilities and small
  groups
• Initiate discussion of establishing best
  practices for EE testing, simulation, and data
  exchange
• Establish future meetings of EE and IT community
  to drill down on IT needs, procedures, protocols

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