Subject: Re: Request for Letter of Support! From: Satoshi Matsuoka Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:20:17 +0900 To: gcf@indiana.edu CC: matsu@is.titech.ac.jp, Dennis Gannon OK, thanks for the contextual info. I will try to compose something over the next few days. Satoshi On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 20:09:42 -0500 Geoffrey Fox wrote: gcf> It would be fine to put a mention of this project with NEES as NEES is gcf> complementary gcf> to our project in following sense: gcf> Here is an outsider's view of field gcf> 1. NEES This is Earthquake Engineering Grid and focuses on problem of gcf> given an earthquake, how does infrastructure (roads, buildings) behave gcf> HPCC simulations are used to propagate seismic waves from an assumed gcf> earthquake and to do "structural simulations" on buildings etc. gcf> At NSF in USA this is part of "Engineering" gcf> 2. "Proven Geoscience" produces estimates of probabilities that earthquakes gcf> can occur with a certain magnitude. They gather lots of data to gcf> help them gcf> here. This is part of "Geoscience" at NSF gcf> 3. "Large scale computation in Geoscience" tries to use earth physics and gcf> data to simulate either specific earthquakes or initially improve gcf> probability distributions given in 2. You could classify some of work gcf> as data mining gcf> This is a bit controversial and is also part of "Geoscience" at NSF gcf> It is hoped that "data deluge" combined with HPCC simulations gcf> will make this approach more viable. gcf> gcf> Clearly 2 and 3 drive 1 and can be put in as workflow linking earthquakes gcf> to structures, tsunamis etc. gcf> gcf> We focus on 2 and 3 adding tsunami simulations gcf> So NEES type work is an excellent Grid activity adding value to our project gcf> gcf> Satoshi Matsuoka wrote: gcf> gcf> >Geoffery, gcf> >(CC: Dennis) gcf> > gcf> >(The email I composed and thought I had sent a few days ago seems to gcf> >have ended in the drafts queue. Here is the retry. Sorry.) gcf> > gcf> >Is this somehow related to the NEES efforts? Sekiguchi and I are helping gcf> >spinning up the NEES and the Japanese E-Defence (which is the Miki Shake gcf> >table integration to NEES) collaboration. The key person there on the gcf> >Japanese side is Professor Akira Mita @ Keio University. Mita-san is gcf> >well connected to the US NEES community, and in particular good friends gcf> >with Prof. Bill Spencer @ UIUC, the former head of NEESit. We have had gcf> >several meetings and the Japanese side got the funding as well starting gcf> >this spring, and we are supposed to go to SDSC on April 282-29 for gcf> >discussions with the NEESit team headed by Tim Warnock there (although gcf> >Phil P. does not seem to hold Tim in high esteem, we reserve our gcf> >judgement until we talk to him.) gcf> > gcf> >I will be mostly involved as a research consultation, while Sekiugchi's gcf> >team will host actual R&D work to do the integration. gcf> > gcf> >All this may have or may not have anything to do with the project you gcf> >are proposing, but I just wanted to lay the card out on the table to gcf> >see if these activities between NEES and ourselves will help or harm you gcf> >in any way before I make any involvment. gcf> > gcf> > Satoshi (M) gcf> > gcf> >On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:48:09 -0500 gcf> >Geoffrey Fox wrote: gcf> > gcf> >gcf> I would like to request your help. I am the PI of a proposal, "Earthquakes, gcf> >gcf> Tsunamis, and the International Solid Earth Research Virtual Observatory gcf> >gcf> (iSERVO)", which is being prepared for submission to NSF's Partnerships for gcf> >gcf> International Research and Education program. gcf> >gcf> (www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05533/nsf05533.pdf). I enclose a short draft gcf> >gcf> summary gcf> >gcf> of the project which is internationally focused on the Asia-Pacific areas gcf> >gcf> sensitive to earthquake and tsunami natural disasters. We have quite a gcf> >gcf> strong gcf> >gcf> team of collaborators. In the US there is the University of California at gcf> >gcf> Davis, Irvine, and Santa Cruz, University of Minnesota, University of gcf> >gcf> Southern gcf> >gcf> California, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. At Indiana University we gcf> >gcf> have myself, Dennis Gannon, Beth Plale, Marlon Pierce as well as a Grid gcf> >gcf> Operation Center. Earth scientists from Australia, Canada, China, Japan, gcf> >gcf> Russia, Taiwan, and the United States will be part of this project. gcf> >gcf> gcf> >gcf> A core part of the concept is a globally deployed (Grid) gcf> >gcf> cyberinfrastructure and gcf> >gcf> our strategy is to work with the major national Grid projects in the gcf> >gcf> involved gcf> >gcf> countries to define a framework that will allow resources to interact gcf> >gcf> globally. These resources include people, data repositories, real-time gcf> >gcf> sensors, compute resources and the alerting mechanisms triggered by gcf> >gcf> events. We gcf> >gcf> expect that one or more iSERVO nodes will be placed in each Asia-Pacific gcf> >gcf> economy and both enhance international Earth Science Research and the gcf> >gcf> emergency response. Note that this is not a Grid research project but rather gcf> >gcf> a project to enhance international science using the deployment of Grids. gcf> >gcf> gcf> >gcf> I was hoping that you would be willing to work with the international iSERVO gcf> >gcf> team to define a Grid framework that will enable useful deployment even as gcf> >gcf> specifications and architectures are still being debated. If you are gcf> >gcf> interested I would be grateful if you could send me a letter of support some gcf> >gcf> time in the next week. I enclose a draft that you can modify or discard! gcf> >gcf> gcf> >gcf> Thank you Geoffrey gcf> >gcf> gcf> >gcf> Scientists from Japan involved are expected to include: gcf> >gcf> gcf> >gcf> Mitsuhiro Matsu'ura gcf> >gcf> Earth and Planetary Science gcf> >gcf> University of Tokyo gcf> >gcf> (Current major collaborator with us gcf> >gcf> Earthquake modeling and simulations on Earth Simulator) gcf> >gcf> gcf> >gcf> Fumiko Tajima gcf> >gcf> Earth and Planetary Science gcf> >gcf> Hiroshima University gcf> >gcf> (Data analysis for earthquake seismicity and models for earthquake faults) gcf> >gcf> gcf> >gcf> Jim Mori gcf> >gcf> Seismology gcf> >gcf> Kyoto University gcf> >gcf> gcf> >gcf> Toshii Ebisusaki gcf> >gcf> RIKEN (Grape Project) gcf> >gcf> gcf> >gcf> -- gcf> >gcf> : gcf> >gcf> : Geoffrey Fox gcf@indiana.edu FAX 8128567972 http://www.infomall.org gcf> >gcf> : Phones Cell 812-219-4643 Home 8123239196 Lab 8128567977 gcf> >gcf> gcf> > gcf> > gcf> > gcf> gcf> -- gcf> : gcf> : Geoffrey Fox gcf@indiana.edu FAX 8128567972 http://www.infomall.org gcf> : Phones Cell 812-219-4643 Home 8123239196 Lab 8128567977 gcf> ????????????????????? ?152-8550 ????????? 2-12-1 (?7??2F) Tel/Fax 03-5734-3876 (?7??2F206) ??090-5811-8746 (FOMA-TV????) 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