The NEES 'Collaboratory'
The integrated NEES(Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation) project called NEESgrid, will link earthquake engineering research sites across the country to provide a 'Collaboratory' of research tools for remote sites users of desktop workstations. Sharing computer simulation software, high- performance computing clusters, and research data stored in online repositories, the NEESgrid will take advantage of the grid tools and technologies developed over the last five years through the NSF's Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) program, the Globus Toolkit for distributed computing developed at Argonne National Laboratory and grid technologies developed at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) at the University of Southern California (USC).
News Coverage
The following articles on the NEES 'Collaboratory' have appeared in the media. (A press release from NCSA is also available.)
NSF Funds Virtual 'Collaboratory' for Better Quakeproofing. NPACI Online, September 5, 2001.
Earthquake Engineering Network: Design Goes to Illinois-Led Team. NFS Online, August 27, 2001.