Broadband Platform Meeting - 7 March 2012

SCEC Broadband Platform Development Meeting

Meeting Date

• Date: Wednesday 7 March 2012
• Time: 9am PST - 4pm PST

Agenda

1. Introduction and Goals (9:00am - 9:30)
   1. Welcome, Goals, and Objectives (10 min) (T. Jordan)
   2. Broadband Platform User Observations (10 min) (N. Abrahamson)
   3. Broadband Platform Overview (10 min) (P. Maechling)
2. Review of Existing Broadband Platform Modules (9:30am - 11am)
   1. URS Modules (20 min) (R. Graves)
   2. UCSB Modules Intro UCSB Validation Work(20 min) (Jorge Crempien)
   3. SDSU Modules (20 min) (Kim Olsen)
   4. Discussion (30 min)
3. Break (11am - 11:15am)
4. Potential New Broadband Modules (11:15pm - 12:30pm)
   1. Stochastic High Frequencies (15 min) (G. Atkinson)
   2. Irikura Module (15 min) (P. Somerville)
   3. Composite Source Module (15 min) (J. Anderson)
   4. Discussion (30 min)
5. Lunch Break (12:30pm - 1:30pm) (lunch provided for SCEC visitors)
6. Current Broadband Research Simulations (1:30pm - 2:15pm)
   1. NGA West 2 (15 min) (Albert Kottke)
   2. NGA East Planning (15 min) (Jeff Bayless)
   3. Discussion (15 min)
7. Break (2:15pm - 2:30pm)
8. Broadband Platform Modification Priorities (2:30pm - 3:15pm)
   1. Current Broadband "batch" capabilities (15 min) (Maechling)
   2. [ Faster processing (Parallel Broadband)] (15 min) (Mats Rynge)
   3. Discussion (15 min)
9. Design of Broadband Validation (3:15pm - 3:45) (Luco)
10. Discussion and Next Steps (3:45pm - 4pm) (Jordan)
11. Adjourn (4pm PST)

Summary of Meeting Goals

Goals for this broadband platform meeting include:

1. Review of current Broadband Platform Capabilities
2. Plan implementation on the BB platform of new ground-motion prediction modules
   1. Improved understanding of Zeng module
   2. Improved undestanding of Irikura module
   3. Improved understanding of Atkinson EXSIM module
3. Improve BB computational performance.
4. Improve BB ease of use and portability

Remote Participation Information

A number of you are not able to travel to USC for the meeting. We will enable remote participation using Adobe Connect Pro, for both presentation sharing and audio using VOIP. To "join" the meeting virtually:

1. Set your browser to: http://www.scec.org/virtual/scecmeet.
2. Please choose "Enter as a Guest" and enter your name to enter the virtual meeting room.(You may be asked to install an Adobe Connect Add-in in order to use the software.)
3. We can test your connection prior to the workshop starting at 8:30am Pacific time.

If you have a headset to connect to your laptop, it will improve the sound on your end.

Detailed Meeting Participation Instructions

Venue: Southern California Earthquake Center Headquarters - SCEC Boardroom

   University of Southern California
   3651 Trousdale Parkway #167
   Los Angeles, CA 90089-0871
   (213) 740-5843
   For a map, go to: http://www.scec.org/aboutscec/maps/room169psa.html

Agenda: The current agenda is available online at: http://scec.usc.edu/scecpedia/Broadband_Platform_Meeting_-_7_March_2012

Presenters: For those of you presenting at the workshop, please send us your presentation to load on the meeting laptop before 8:30am Pacific Time. Just reply to this email address, and attach your presentation. The laptop runs MAC OSX, and has Adobe Acrobat, iWork Keynote, and Microsoft Office installed.

Remote Participation: A number of you are not able to travel to USC for the meeting. We will enable remote participation using Adobe Connect Pro, for both presentation sharing and audio using VOIP. To "join" the meeting virtually:

       1. Set your browser to: http://www.scec.org/virtual/scecmeet.
       2. Please choose "Enter as a Guest" and enter your name to enter the virtual meeting room.
           (You may be asked to install an Adobe Connect Add-in in order to use the software.)
       3. We can test your connection prior to the workshop starting at 8:30am Pacific time.

If you have a headset to connect to your laptop, it will improve the sound on your end.

Directions / Parking: Plan on parking at the Radisson Hotel if you need to park your car or rental car overnight. For those of you who need day parking only, reservations have been made at Parking Structure A (PSA). Enter at Gate 1, and tell the parking attendant you are attending the “SCEC Meeting”, and you will be directed to the parking structure. See http://www.scec.org/aboutscec/maps/room169psa.html for directions.

Related Entries

• Broadband Platform
• CME