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NEESgrid: Where Infrastructure Meets Cyberinfrastructure

NEESgrid: Where Infrastructure Meets Cyberinfrastructure. Kim Mish Presidential Professor of Structural Engineering Director, Donald G. Fears Structural Engineering Laboratory School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science University of Oklahoma. So Why am I Here, Anyway?.

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NEESgrid: Where Infrastructure Meets Cyberinfrastructure

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  1. NEESgrid: Where Infrastructure Meets Cyberinfrastructure Kim Mish Presidential Professor of Structural Engineering Director, Donald G. Fears Structural Engineering Laboratory School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science University of Oklahoma

  2. So Why am I Here, Anyway? • Professional Background • Earthquake Engineering (structures, bridges, dams, infrastructure) • Information Technology and Supercomputing • National Security Research and Development • Established LLNL Center for Computational Engineering • Interfaces of Simulation, IT, and INFOSEC for LLNL Engineering • Substantial university and government outreach component • Currently providing technology management expertise for the NSF NEES MRE • Primary focus has been on the NEESgrid project (SI award) • This project lies at interface of infrastructure and cyberinfrastructure realms, a.k.a. where I’ve spent my career

  3. Characteristics of Infrastructure • Essential • So important that it becomes ubiquitous • Reliable • Example: the built environment of the Roman Empire • Expensive • Nothing succeeds like excess (e.g., Interstate system) • Inherently one-off (often, few economies of scale) • Clear factorization between research and practice • Generally, only deploy what provably works

  4. Infrastructure vs. Cyberinfrastructure • Characteristics of Infrastructure Culture • Risk averse, which leads to slow technology adoption • Code-based practice to defend against litigation • Follow community wants/needs whenever possible • Goal is highest reliability, e.g., MTBF • Characteristics of Cyberinfrastructure Culture • High-risk, “innovate or die” approach to technology • Best-practices approach leaves legal issues dangling • Develop technology, then look for a market • Goal is highest performance, e.g., TFLOPS

  5. So Exactly What is NEES? • NEES = Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation • NEES is a distributed array of experimental sites, grid-based data repositories, tool archives, and computational resources • NEES has four components, with three now funded: • The consortium, which will run NEES after 2004 • The consortium development (CD) builds the consortium • The experimental sites, which provide data and content • The systems integration (SI) effort, termed NEESgrid • IT drivers include telepresence, curated repositories, scalable HPC, experimental-numerical coupling, QoS… • NEES is the first-ever Engineering MRE at NSF, and its full title is the “George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation”

  6. NEES: Experiments and Numerics • Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Goal: create collaborative network of experimental sites at fifteen U.S. universities

  7. NEES Phase I Equipment Sites

  8. NEES: UC Davis Soil Centrifuge

  9. Oregon State Tsunami Facility

  10. What About Numeric Simulation? • GC Example: San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge • Horrendous nonlinearities and ill-conditioning • Foundation is saturated (fully-coupled multiphysics) • Complexity from juxtaposition of forms (unstructured)

  11. The Promise of Cyberinfrastructure • NEESgrid Example: the Terascale Framework • New client-server engineering portal for grid computing • Scalable framework for finite-element HPC • Developed by Lee Taylor (SNL ASCI flagship SIERRA framework lead) • Funded by LLNL CCE, SNL, and NSF ITR in support of NEES MRE

  12. The Perils of Cyberinfrastructure

  13. How We Develop Infrastructure • Multi-tiered structure for R&D • NSF: basic engineering research • TRB: development and reduction-to-practice • FHWA, AASHTO, and DOTs: deployment of innovations that are successful and feasible • Clear lines of demarcation exist • Don’t do research on production facilities • Use funds from production to support R&D • When in doubt, overbuild!

  14. Summary • Design and deployment of infrastructure is motivated by the goal of production capability with low risk and high reliability • Design and deployment of cyber-infrastructure is motivated by the goal of performance and technological innovation • The NEES MRE lies at the oft-problematic interface of these two communities

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