1. NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Alternative access to NEEScentral: Use Without a Web Browser Jeremy Coleman (jeremy.coleman4832@gmail.com) NEESreu@NEESit http://it.nees.org Young Researchers Symposium Oregon, August 11 2006

2. NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Presentation Outline Overview of NEEScentral –Basic usage through GUI Synopsis of programming languages –Web Services, MatLab, Shell Scripting Basis of work Progress thus far and ultimate goals

3. NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation NEESit Cyberinfrastructure backbone of NEES Delivers information technology tools and infrastructure for Earthquake research Maintains NEEScentral and provides direction for development and improvement

4. NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation What is NEEScentral Central database for earthquake/tsunami community Hierarchical listing of projects -> experiments -> trials -> and repetitions Composed of Experimental and Computational data as well as meta-data Accessed primarily through web browser

5. NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Graphical User Interface (GUI)

6. NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation NEEScentral’s Web Services Available to research community –https://central.nees.org/api/web_services.phphttps://central.nees.org/api/web_services.php Perform services within NEEScentral –Login, logout, file transfer etc. URL based calls –Modular format –Theoretically accessible to any language supporting URL calls

7. NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Alternate Platforms Shell Scripts –Command prompt based –Login, logout, XML parsing MatLab –Runs shell scripts –Can run UNIX based commands –Extensive data analysis

8. NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Progress Thus Far Why Matlab –Convenient to researcher –Runs Unix based applications –Enhances usability of NEEScentral Progress in MatLab –Script conversions –File access and manipulation –No file upload

9. NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Future Work Increase convenience of MatLab calls –M files Bulk upload –Metadata upload with primer files –Raw data upload with pattern matching Must begin working with raw data Incorporate more web services –Decided what services are suited for Matlab/Unix

10. NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Thank you!