INTEGRATION OF NEESGRID INTO THE NEES@UCLA FIELD TESTING SITE
Daniel H. Whang, Steve W. Kang, John W. Wallace, Jonathan P. Stewart, Eunjong Yu, Lei Ying · 2004
SUMMARY Before the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Program enters into the operational phase, the full nees@UCLA mobile field laboratory will be utilized to perform forced vibration testing of a four-story office building. The final task remaining to be completed before the nees@UCLA Site becomes fully operational is the integration of NEESgrid, a high performance internet network to support earthquake engineering research within the NEES community. The nees@UCLA Site has unique networking requirements given that it is field testing site, and that the NEESgrid system was originally designed for laboratory-based Equipment Sites. Consequently, the nees@UCLA Site has developed a High Performance Mobile Network (HPMN) to support real-time telepresence through the NEESgrid architecture for off-campus experiments. This paper describes the development and integration of the HPMN and NEESgrid networks, and the potential benefits it provides to future NEES researchers.