Broadband Platform Meeting - 7 March 2012

SCEC Broadband Platform Development Meeting

Meeting Date

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)
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)
Break (11am - 11:15am)
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)
Lunch Break (12:30pm - 1:30pm) (lunch provided for SCEC visitors)
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)
Break (2:15pm - 2:30pm)
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)
Design of Broadband Validation (3:15pm - 3:45)
1. SCEC GMSV TAG Planning (Luco)
Discussion and Next Steps (3:45pm - 4pm)
1. Meeting Action Items (Jordan/Maechling)
Adjourn (4pm PST)

Goals for this broadband platform meeting include:

Review of current Broadband Platform Capabilities
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
Improve BB computational performance.
Improve BB ease of use and portability