Need NSF Style CV's (5 refs) for Senior Personnel Budget Lets assume per year $400K CS/Information Infrastructure (part of Andrea/Roscoe/Myself) $75K Outreach at SCEC $400K Earthquakes including You Klein Murray and your choice $120 K for Colorado 3 D earthquake models, patterns, analysis, Management functions $80 K for BU (Klein) Stat. Mech. Modeling, Theory $50 K for Brown (Tullis) Application of Fast Multipoles, Rate & State friction $50 K for Caltech (Kanamori) TriNet/TERRASCOPE/Other seismic data $40 K for USC (Sammis & Ben-Zion) Log periodic, earthquake statistics $25 K for Cornell (Turcotte) Russian Earthquake Forecasts $35 K for UC Davis (Kellogg) Computational methods/plate boundary loading I suggest I refine proposal to include study of both "theoretical and "observational" collaborations as tools to be shared are probably different Agreed, tools will be different...the difference between having full knowledge in a simulation, and only partial knowlege from data. One more thought. To have successful proposal, we must have earthquake data to process. Ergo, we must have someone involved who knows data and has strong interest in modeling. I would argue that we need to have Donnellan involved on a funded basis. This can be done either thru SCEC or thru her appointment at USC. Involved People *********************************************** Florida State Univ. (Fox, Haupt) Computer Science, Management of this as a GEM Project Boston (Giles) Computer Science USC (Donnellan) Information Infrastructure USC SCEC(Henyey) Outreach Colorado Rundle 3D earthquake models, patterns, analysis, GEM Management functions Boston (Klein) Stat. Mech. Modeling, Theory Brown (Tullis) Application of Fast Multipoles, Rate & State friction Caltech (Kanamori) TriNet/TERRASCOPE/Other seismic data USC (Sammis & Ben-Zion) Log periodic, earthquake statistics Cornell (Turcotte) Russian Earthquake Forecasts UC Davis (Kellogg) Computational methods/plate boundary loading Santa Fe Institute (Gell-Mann) Patterns Unfunded by NSF Rules Los Alamos JPL USGS Below is Proposed Structure of Preproposal 1) I would like "one page or so" description of key issues that should appear in proposal. We can weave into (pre)proposal then. Please also suggest key points that must appear in project summary/ be emphasized in text 2) I would especially like volunteers to refine scenarios (see below) 3) I would like NSF Style CV's (5 key publications, at most 2 pages) of all "senior personeel" and confirmation of their interest Pre Proposal Summary: Scientific research problems to be addressed The methodologies to be used, and The potential outcomes "5 Page Preproposal Draft" ********************************************** Must cover: 1) Discuss the goals, objectives and anticipated impact of the proposed project. 2) Make clear that the proposed project is a research project, 3) Contributions to advances in information technology and 4) Earthquake Science Issues to address: What are the broader impacts of the proposed activity? How well does the activity advance discovery and understanding while promoting teaching, training, and learning? How well does the proposed activity broaden the participation of underrepresented groups (e.g., gender, ethnicity, disability, geographic, etc.)? To what extent will it enhance the infrastructure for research and education, such as facilities, instrumentation, networks, and partnerships? Will the results be disseminated broadly to enhance scientific and technological understanding? Plans for distributing software etc. What may be the benefits of the proposed activity to society? Integration of Research and Education Integrating Diversity Community-extending concepts such as undergraduate education or links to minority serving institutions, or institutions in EPSCOR states. Introduction Summarize Earth Science and Computer science goals in global context Describe GEM as a magnificent and succesful collaboration Define 2 or 3 Scenarios as in chapter 5 of "book chapter" (http://foxhome4.npac.syr.edu/gempapernov2799/gempaper.html VERY ROUGH) Scenario 1: Classic HPCC Simulation including data assimilation (or assimilation Scenario 2: Real Time Science after an Earthquake Scenario 3: Pattern Analysis (data-mining) in rapid prototyping mode Computer Science issues 1) Building a complete computing environment (portal/Problem Solving Environment) from (more or less) scratch supporting multiple scenarios with simulation, data analysis, real-time and long term collaboration No "legacy" constraints 2) New use of multipole with significant differences 3) "Real-Time Portals" and special features of earthquake sensor data 4) Different computing and collaboration models in each scenario 5) Integration of coarse grain and fine grain objects Earth Science Issues 1) Help build a New approach to geoscience for 21st century (as suggested by national studies) 2) Obvious value of earthquake forecasting -- current forecasts insufficient 3) Why do scenarios capture key modes of doing science Outreach and Education Build on SCEC and JPL with enhancement from NPAC technology Discuss APEC International outreach Discuss role of government organizations Management -- view this proposal as one of many GEM activities As in PACI's and CRPC. Need committees which could be GEM wide Executive Committee (with proposal subcommittee) Technical Committee (with proposal subcommittee) Outside Advisory Board *************** Something like this will be Project Summary LETTER of INTENT: NSF Information Technology Research (ITR) Program - ------------------------------------------------------------------- (Advanced Computational Science area, with substantional overlap in others including Scalable Information Infrastructure) PI: Geoffrey C Fox, Florida State University co-PI: John Rundle, Colorado University co-PI: Andrea Donnellan, USC co-PI: William Klein, Boston University Possible Participating Funded Institutions: Boston, Brown, Caltech, Cornell, Colorado, Florida State, UC Davis, UC San Diego, Univ. of Southern California Possible Participating Unfunded Institutions: Jet Propulsion laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory Santa Fe Institute United States Geological Survey APEC International Cooperation for Earthquake Simulation (ACES) Possible Title Environments for Distributed Collaborative Science applied to Earthquake Analysis Motivation and Project Team The importance of distributed scientific collaboration has been understood for some time and tremendous progress has been made over the last few years. In particular distributed object and web technology has enabled sharing of both data and simulations over time and distance. However there are many fundamental issues to be studied both from computer science (how should we build collaborative scientific environments) and application science (what changes in the scientific method and what are appplication requirements and impact) points of view. The unsolved research issues are particularly acute for real time interactions between people, computer simulations, instruments and other information resources. This proposal builds an interdisciplinary team where we focus on both the general computer science issues and one particular application area -- that of earthquake analysis and simulation. This area is both important and needs both traditional scientific collaboration and the time critical distributed collaborations needed after a major event. Scientists around the world join to both help the crisis management teams and to gather together and understand the multi-faceted real time information overload characteristic of a large earthquake. The computer science research will address the needs of and test its ideas in other application areas using the existing collaborations and broad expertise of the proposal team. The earthquake area will focus on the needs of scientific collaboration but the environments will be extensible to support the general needs of the crisis teams with distributed interactions between control rooms, field personnel and experts together with real time data streams. Components of the Research Program 1) Computer Science Research We have abstracted lessons from early prototypes of collaborative systems and science problem solving environments to define a new approach to web-based collaborative portals SPW (Shared portal on the Web) which we will combine with requirements from both the earthquake application team and major teams at NSF Partnerships in Advanced Computational Science. We will iterate short (around 6 month) prototyping efforts with test and evaluation. This modular construction approach fits today's rapid evolution in technology on "Internet Time". 2) Application Effort We have developed three typical scenarios linking distributed scientists, data and simulations and these will be implemented as prototype collaborative environments using both existing and new application codes. We will with other partners (JPL, USC/SCEC, USGS) link to the major earthquake sensor systems as part of the environments. We will include theoretical and observational science scientific data analysis in the scenarios in both real-time decision support and more asynchronous collaboration modes. 3) Outreach We will leverage the existing broad and succesful outreach program of USC/SCEC which will link us both to the public (for education) and to the state and federal emergency services.