Broadband Platform Meeting - 7 March 2012

SCEC Broadband Platform Development Meeting

Meeting Date

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

Meeting Location

• 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

1. Introduction and Goals (9:00am - 9:30)
   1. Welcome, Goals, and Objectives (10 min) (Jordan)
   2. Broadband Platform Development (10 min) (Abrahamson)
   3. Broadband Platform Overview (10 min) (Maechling)
2. Review of Existing Broadband Platform Modules (9:30am - 11am)
   1. URS Modules (20 min) (Graves/Bayless)
   2. UCSB Modules (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) (Gail Atkinson)
   2. Irikura Module (15 min) (Paul Somerville)
   3. Composite Source Module (15 min) (John 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/Olsen)
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.

Related Entries

• Broadband Platform
• CME