Broadband Platform Meeting - 7 March 2012

Title: SCEC Broadband Platform Development Meeting

Organizers: Phil Maechling, Tom Jordan, Norm Abrahamson

Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2012 (9:00am - 4:00pm)

Location: SCEC Boardroom, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Participants: 24 total

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

Agenda & Presentations

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)
   1. SCEC GMSV TAG Planning (Luco)
10. Discussion and Next Steps (3:45pm - 4pm)
    1. Meeting Action Items (Jordan/Maechling)
11. Adjourn (4pm PST)

Participants

Norm Abrahamson (PG&E/Berkeley), John Anderson (UNR), Ralph Archuleta (UCSB), Karen Assatourians (Western Ontario), Gail Atkinson (Western Ontario), Jeff Bayless (URS), Lynne Burks (Stanford), Scott Callaghan (USC/SCEC), Jorge Crempien (UCSB), Rob Graves (USGS), Tran Huynh (USC/SCEC), Tom Jordan (USC/SCEC), Albert Kottke (Texas, Austin), Nico Luco (USGS), Phil Maechling (USC/SCEC), Gaurang Mehta (USC/ISI), Mats Rynge (USC/ISI), Paul Somerville (URS), Feng Wang (USC), Katie Wooddell (PG&E), Yuehua Zeng (USGS), Peng Zhong (UCI)

Could not attend: Jack Baker (Stanford), Jacobo Bielak (CMU), Yifeng Cui (SDSC), Ewa Deelman (USC/ISI), John McRaney (USC/SCEC), Patrick Small (USC/SCEC), Ricardo Taborda (CMU)

Related Entries

• Broadband Platform
• CME