NEESGRID: A DISTRIBUTED COLLABORATORY FOR ADVANCED EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT AND SIMULATION

Abstract

this paper, various NEESgrid components are introduced and their roles in NEESgrid are identified. Subsequently, the MultiSite Online Simulation Testbed (MOST) experiment, which was conducted on July 30, 2003 to showcase the NEESgrid software capabilities, will be discussed. The MOST experiment coupled two large-scale physical experiments in Illinois and Colorado with a computational simulation. This paper also describes the Mini-MOST experiment, which is a tool for NEESgrid education, training and outreach. The success of the MOST and Mini-MOST experiments demonstrates the significant potential of Grid technologies in engineering research and, more importantly, the experience gained offered us a better insight on how to build and deploy effective Grid applications in the future