Subject: Re: Request for Letter of Support! From: Satoshi Matsuoka Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 09:16:30 +0900 To: gcf@indiana.edu CC: matsu@is.titech.ac.jp, Dennis Gannon Geoffery, (CC: Dennis) (The email I composed and thought I had sent a few days ago seems to have ended in the drafts queue. Here is the retry. Sorry.) Is this somehow related to the NEES efforts? Sekiguchi and I are helping spinning up the NEES and the Japanese E-Defence (which is the Miki Shake table integration to NEES) collaboration. The key person there on the Japanese side is Professor Akira Mita @ Keio University. Mita-san is well connected to the US NEES community, and in particular good friends with Prof. Bill Spencer @ UIUC, the former head of NEESit. We have had several meetings and the Japanese side got the funding as well starting this spring, and we are supposed to go to SDSC on April 282-29 for discussions with the NEESit team headed by Tim Warnock there (although Phil P. does not seem to hold Tim in high esteem, we reserve our judgement until we talk to him.) I will be mostly involved as a research consultation, while Sekiugchi's team will host actual R&D work to do the integration. All this may have or may not have anything to do with the project you are proposing, but I just wanted to lay the card out on the table to see if these activities between NEES and ourselves will help or harm you in any way before I make any involvment. Satoshi (M) On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:48:09 -0500 Geoffrey Fox wrote: gcf> I would like to request your help. I am the PI of a proposal, "Earthquakes, gcf> Tsunamis, and the International Solid Earth Research Virtual Observatory gcf> (iSERVO)", which is being prepared for submission to NSF's Partnerships for gcf> International Research and Education program. gcf> (www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05533/nsf05533.pdf). I enclose a short draft gcf> summary gcf> of the project which is internationally focused on the Asia-Pacific areas gcf> sensitive to earthquake and tsunami natural disasters. We have quite a gcf> strong gcf> team of collaborators. In the US there is the University of California at gcf> Davis, Irvine, and Santa Cruz, University of Minnesota, University of gcf> Southern gcf> California, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. At Indiana University we gcf> have myself, Dennis Gannon, Beth Plale, Marlon Pierce as well as a Grid gcf> Operation Center. Earth scientists from Australia, Canada, China, Japan, gcf> Russia, Taiwan, and the United States will be part of this project. gcf> gcf> A core part of the concept is a globally deployed (Grid) gcf> cyberinfrastructure and gcf> our strategy is to work with the major national Grid projects in the gcf> involved gcf> countries to define a framework that will allow resources to interact gcf> globally. These resources include people, data repositories, real-time gcf> sensors, compute resources and the alerting mechanisms triggered by gcf> events. We gcf> expect that one or more iSERVO nodes will be placed in each Asia-Pacific gcf> economy and both enhance international Earth Science Research and the gcf> emergency response. Note that this is not a Grid research project but rather gcf> a project to enhance international science using the deployment of Grids. gcf> gcf> I was hoping that you would be willing to work with the international iSERVO gcf> team to define a Grid framework that will enable useful deployment even as gcf> specifications and architectures are still being debated. If you are gcf> interested I would be grateful if you could send me a letter of support some gcf> time in the next week. I enclose a draft that you can modify or discard! gcf> gcf> Thank you Geoffrey gcf> gcf> Scientists from Japan involved are expected to include: gcf> gcf> Mitsuhiro Matsu'ura gcf> Earth and Planetary Science gcf> University of Tokyo gcf> (Current major collaborator with us gcf> Earthquake modeling and simulations on Earth Simulator) gcf> gcf> Fumiko Tajima gcf> Earth and Planetary Science gcf> Hiroshima University gcf> (Data analysis for earthquake seismicity and models for earthquake faults) gcf> gcf> Jim Mori gcf> Seismology gcf> Kyoto University gcf> gcf> Toshii Ebisusaki gcf> RIKEN (Grape Project) 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>