Subject: Re: Request for Help! From: David Abramson Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 12:15:42 +1000 To: Amanda Lynch , Louis Moresi CC: gcf@indiana.edu, John Rundle At 02:26 PM 28/02/2005, John Rundle wrote: > Amanda, > > That would be excellent, a joint letter would be fine. > > Also, I will contact you in a bit about my visit in July in association > with the Perth conference, which I am starting to think about. Looking > forward to seeing you and Henry. > > With Best Regards > John Amanda/Louis Fine - I have taken Geoffrey's draft letter, made a few small changes, and put it on letter head. We can sign and send it off tomorrow. John/Geoffrey - the projects sounds really exciting and would fit in very well with our plans here .... Cheers david > ____________________________________________ > > John B Rundle > Professor of Physics and Engineering > Director, Center for Computational Science > and Engineering > University of California, Davis > One Shields Ave. > Davis, CA 95616 > > Tel: 530-752-6416 > Fax: 530-754-4885 > > http://cse.ucdavis.edu/~rundle/ > > ____________________________________________ > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Amanda Lynch" > To: "John Rundle" ; > Cc: "David Abramson" ; "Louis Moresi" > Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 4:14 PM > Subject: Re: Request for Help! > > >> John, Geoffrey - >> >> It looks like we are all thinking along the same lines, since I had spoken to David and Louis about the earlier request. Since David, Louis and I are all busy prepping for an interview next week (David most of all) perhaps we can all sign a single letter of support. David, maybe you could sign the letter you have and send it around to me and Louis, or we could all sign it together when we meet on Thursday? >> >> Cheers >> Manda >> >> On Feb 25, 2005, at 7:43 PM, David Abramson wrote: >> >>> At 06:58 AM 23/02/2005, you wrote: >>> Geoffrey >>> >>> Happy to help - will look at it next week. Did I tell you we got an interview for our CoE? Thanks for your support on this! >>> >>> Am flat out working on our interview plan, which is in 1.5 weeks. But I hope to find time to squeeze in your letter of support. Cc'd to Amanda and Louis, who I believe will be interested. >>> >>> David >>> >>> >>>> I would like to request your help. I am the PI of a proposal, "Earthquakes, >>>> Tsunamis, and the International Solid Earth Research Virtual Observatory >>>> (iSERVO)", which is being prepared for submission to NSF's Partnerships for >>>> International Research and Education program. >>>> (www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05533/nsf05533.pdf). I enclose a short draft summary >>>> of the project which is internationally focused on the Asia-Pacific areas >>>> sensitive to earthquake and tsunami natural disasters. We have quite a strong >>>> team of collaborators. In the US there is the University of California at >>>> Davis, Irvine, and Santa Cruz, University of Minnesota, University of Southern >>>> California, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. At Indiana University we >>>> have myself, Dennis Gannon, Beth Plale, Marlon Pierce as well as a Grid >>>> Operation Center. Earth scientists from Australia, Canada, China, Japan, >>>> Russia, Taiwan, and the United States will be part of this project. >>>> >>>> A core part of the concept is a globally deployed (Grid) cyberinfrastructure and >>>> our strategy is to work with the major national Grid projects in the involved >>>> countries to define a framework that will allow resources to interact >>>> globally. These resources include people, data repositories, real-time >>>> sensors, compute resources and the alerting mechanisms triggered by events. We >>>> expect that one or more iSERVO nodes will be placed in each Asia-Pacific >>>> economy and both enhance international Earth Science Research and the >>>> emergency response. Note that this is not a Grid research project but rather >>>> a project to enhance international science using the deployment of Grids. >>>> >>>> I was hoping that you would be willing to work with the international iSERVO >>>> team to define a Grid framework that will enable useful deployment even as >>>> specifications and architectures are still being debated. If you are >>>> interested I would be grateful if you could send me a letter of support some >>>> time in the next week. I enclose a draft that you can modify or discard! >>>> >>>> Thank you Geoffrey >>>> >>>> Australian Scientists involved are expected to include >>>> >>>> Peter Mora >>>> Our current major collaborator >>>> University of Queensland >>>> >>>> Brian Kennett >>>> Professor of Seismology ANU >>>> Earth Physics Coordinator ANISR >>>> >>>> Amanda Lynch >>>> Geography and Environmental Science >>>> Monash University >>>> >>>> PS Should we invite Louis Moresi to join? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> : >>>> : Geoffrey Fox gcf@indiana.edu FAX 8128567972 http://www.infomall.org >>>> : Phones Cell 812-219-4643 Home 8123239196 Lab 8128567977 >>> >>> >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- >>> David Abramson >>> Professor phone: (03) 9905 1183 >>> mobile: 0417 375 635 >>> School of Computer Science e-mail: davida@csse.monash.edu.au >>> and Software Engineering fax: (03) 9905 5146 >>> Monash University WWW: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~davida >>> Clayton, Vic, 3800 >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- >> >> -- >> Professor Amanda Lynch ...and the world >> School of Geography and Environmental Science keeps coming >> Monash University Vic 3800 Australia - P.J. Harvey >> http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ges/research/regclim/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Abramson Professor phone: (03) 9905 1183 mobile: 0417 375 635 School of Computer Science e-mail: davida@csse.monash.edu.au and Software Engineering fax: (03) 9905 5146 Monash University WWW: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~davida Clayton, Vic, 3800 -------------------------------------------------------------------------