Completion of the NEES Infrastructure

该合同为NEES财团公司提供资金，用于在2004财年建设其总部基础设施。Nees Consortium，Inc.成立于2003年1月。其主要任务将是在2005财年至2014财年期间管理、运营和维护小乔治·E·布朗领导下开发的设备现场基础设施和NEESgrid网络基础设施。地震工程模拟网络(NEES)。NEES是一个由NSF资助的重大研究设备和设施建设(MREFC)项目，该项目在2000财年至2004财年期间正在建设中。到2004年9月30日建成后，NEES将成为15个地理上分散、共享的实验研究设备地点的全国性网络模拟资源，具有远程观测和远程操作能力，通过协作和集成的实验、计算、理论、数据库和基于模型的模拟来促进地震工程研究和教育，并改进美国土木工程和机械基础设施系统的抗震设计和性能。NEES研究设备包括通过高性能互联网联网在一起的振动台、土工离心机、海啸波浪池、大型实验室实验系统以及移动和永久安装的现场设备。由伊利诺伊大学香槟分校领导的多机构团队正在开发的NEESgrid，将在设备现场实现远程呈现和分布式实验，并为实验和分析地震工程及相关数据、协作工具和模拟工具库提供一个经过管理的储存库。这项奖励使财团能够聘请一名执行董事、现场运营经理、行政助理和网站管理员，并建立财团总部办公室。该奖项包括授予High Performance Technologies，Inc.对NEESgrid软件进行独立确认和验证的子奖。有关项目活动的信息将在www.nees.org上查阅。

The award provides funding to NEES Consortium, Inc., to build its headquarters infrastructure during FY 2004. NEES Consortium, Inc., was incorporated in January 2003. Its primary mission will be to management, operate, and maintain, during FY 2005 - FY 2014, the equipment site infrastructure and NEESgrid cyberinfrastructure being developed under the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES). NEES is an NSF-funded Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction (MREFC) project under construction during FY 2000 - FY 2004. When completed by September 30, 2004, NEES will be national, networked simulation resource of 15 geographically distributed, shared use experimental research equipment sites, with teleobservation and teleoperation capabilities, to advance earthquake engineering research and education through collaborative and integrated experimentation, computation, theory, databases, and model-based simulation and to improve the seismic design and performance of U.S. civil and mechanical infrastructure systems. NEES research equipment includes shake tables, geotechnical centrifuges, a tsunami wave basin, large-scale laboratory experimentation systems, and mobile and permanently installed field equipment, networked together through the high performance Internet. NEESgrid, under development by a multi-institutional team led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will enable telepresence and distributed experimentation at the equipment sites and provide a curated repository for experimental and analytical earthquake engineering and related data, collaborative tools, and a simulation tools repository. This award enables the Consortium to hire an Executive Director, Site Operations Manager, Executive Assistant, and webmaster, as well as establish the Consortium headquarters office. This award includes a subaward to High Performance Technologies, Inc., to conduct an independent validation and verification of the NEESgrid software. Information about project activities will be available at www.nees.org.