Completion of the NEES Infrastructure

该合同为NEES财团公司提供资金，用于在2004财年建造其总部基础设施。NEES Consortium, Inc.成立于2003年1月。它的主要任务是在2005 - 2014财年管理、操作和维护设备现场基础设施和NEESgrid网络基础设施，这些基础设施是在乔治·e·布朗地震工程模拟网络（NEES）下开发的。NEES是美国国家科学基金会资助的重大研究设备和设施建设（MREFC）项目，正在2000 - 2004财年建设中。当2004年9月30日完成时，NEES将成为15个地理分布的、共享使用的实验研究设备站点的全国性网络模拟资源，具有远程观测和远程操作能力，通过协作和集成实验、计算、理论、数据库、计算机和计算机来推进地震工程研究和教育。以及基于模型的模拟，以改善美国民用和机械基础设施系统的抗震设计和性能。NEES研究设备包括振动台、土工离心机、海啸波盆、大型实验室实验系统以及移动和永久安装的现场设备，这些设备通过高性能互联网联网在一起。NEESgrid由伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校领导的多机构团队开发，将在设备站点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存储库提供策划存储库。该奖项使联盟能够聘请执行董事、网站运营经理、执行助理和网站管理员，并建立联盟总部办公室。该合同还包括一个子合同，授予高性能技术公司，对NEESgrid软件进行独立的验证和验证。有关项目活动的信息可在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.