Subject: Re: Collaboration on Building an International Grid of Grids to support Tsunami and Earthquake Forecasting From: "Sanjiva Weerawarana" Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 17:50:28 +0600 To: CC: "Dennis Gannon" , "John Rundle" , "Rajkumar Buyya" Hi Geoffrey, Thanks very much for the invitation! We will be happy to join on the software side but I'm also checking with some university folks whether we can get a more cross-disciplinary team going here. There's no grid infrastructure here and this may be a good motivator to get one going. (With separate funding, of course.) I'm on my way to the US right now. I'll give these guys a few days and worst case I'll send the letter to you without them. Bye! Sanjiva. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geoffrey Fox" To: "Sanjiva Weerawarana" Cc: "Dennis Gannon" ; "John Rundle" ; "Rajkumar Buyya" Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 9:50 AM Subject: Collaboration on Building an International Grid of Grids to support Tsunami and Earthquake Forecasting >> 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 have already >> agreed to be part of this project. We hope Sri Lanka could join us. >> >> 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 collaborating >> country 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 call it the "International Grid of Grids to enhance the harmony and >> prosperity of civilizations". (Named after a forum with this theme in >> Beijing last year.) >> >> I was hoping that your team would be willing to work with the international iSERVO >> team to define a Grid (Web Service) framework that will enable useful deployment >> even as specifications and architectures are still being debated. Involvement in the >> deployment of the Grid in Sri Lanka would of course also be welcome. If you are >> interested I would be grateful if you could send me a letter of support >> some time this week. I enclose a draft that you can modify or discard! >> >> Thank you >> Geoffrey Fox >> >> PS You can read about our work on Earthquake forecasting and >> its Grid support at http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/public/dus/quakesim/ >> >> and here are some unfortunate details: >> a) I need the letter this week >> b) I would like them to be specific as to support offered >> e.g. help developing international "Grid of Grids" framework >> hosting iSERVO Grid nodes; allowing access to your Grid >> working on simulation codes etc. >> c) Worst of all NSF wants CV's of the collaborators >> We would be grateful if you could send us yours (and the one from India) >> I note NSF requires us to put them in NSF standard format so we would >> like an editable format (word?) -- I wouldn't want you to do editing! >> NSF allows a maximum of 2 pages and has at most 10 publications >> Please chose whatever CV you have of around this size >> Thank you again >> >> -- >> : >> : Geoffrey Fox gcf@indiana.edu FAX 8128567972 http://www.infomall.org >> : Phones Cell 812-219-4643 Home 8123239196 Lab 8128567977 >> >> >>