Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure: Cyberinfrastructure

自然灾害工程研究基础设施（NHERI）将由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）支持，作为一个分布式，多用户的国家设施，将为自然灾害研究界提供研究基础设施，包括地震和风力工程实验设施，网络基础设施，计算建模和模拟工具，以及研究数据。以及教育和社区外展活动。NHERI将由网络协调办公室、网络基础设施、计算建模和仿真中心以及实验设施（包括灾后快速反应研究设施）的单独研究基础设施奖项组成。为NHERI颁发的奖项将有助于NSF在国家减少地震灾害计划（NEHRP）和国家减少风暴影响计划中发挥作用。 NHERI继续NSF对地震工程研究基础设施的重视，以前是在乔治E.小布朗地震工程模拟网络作为NEHRP的一部分，但现在扩大了支持，包括风力工程研究基础设施。NHERI的广泛目标是支持研究，以提高民用基础设施的弹性和可持续性，如建筑物和其他结构，地下结构，堤坝和关键生命线，以应对地震和风暴的自然灾害，以尽量减少生命损失，损害和经济损失。在当今的信息时代，这项研究需要数据和计算的集成。该奖项将为NHERI提供网络基础设施组件。 该网络基础设施组件将开发DesignSafe-ci.org门户网站，这是自然灾害工程界的网络基础设施，为管理、分析和理解自然灾害研究的关键数据提供计算工具。DesignSafe-ci.org将包括一个交互式网络界面、用于共享数据集的数据存储库以及一个基于云的工作空间，供研究人员执行模拟、计算、数据分析和其他研究任务。云计算中的数据和计算的集成将使自然灾害工程的新研究发现成为可能，进而可以带来更具灾害弹性的民用基础设施。使用NHERI资源进行的自然灾害工程研究将需要集成来自各种来源的各种数据集，包括实验，计算模拟，现场勘测，地球科学，社会科学，建筑科学和建筑。DesignSafe-ci.org将对自然灾害工程研究中产生的“大数据”采用“云”战略。它的设计将基于一套成熟的技术，这些技术来自于其他大规模的、NSF支持的开放科学基础设施，并将利用NSF已经支持的计算和存储平台。 DesignSafe-ci.org将提供全面的网络基础设施，支持研究工作流程、数据分析和可视化，以及工程师和科学家有效应对自然灾害对民用基础设施构成的威胁所需的实验、现场和计算数据的整个生命周期。DesignSafe-ci.org 将包含以下资源：（1）交互式DesignSafe-ci.org门户网站，（2）数据仓库，一个灵活的数据存储库，具有简化的数据管理工具，（3）侦察集成门户，通过地理空间框架提供对灾后快速反应研究侦察数据的访问，（4）发现工作空间，允许模拟，数据分析，在云中执行并与数据仓库中的数据链接的可视化，（5）学习中心，提供培训和教育材料，以及（6）开发人员门户网站，供用户开发新的网络基础设施功能。 该奖项还将为自然灾害研究社区提供高性能计算资源和用户支持，数据管理和出版商服务。

The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) will be supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a distributed, multi-user national facility that will provide the natural hazards research community with access to research infrastructure that will include earthquake and wind engineering experimental facilities, cyberinfrastructure, computational modeling and simulation tools, and research data, as well as education and community outreach activities. NHERI will be comprised of separate research infrastructure awards for a Network Coordination Office, Cyberinfrastructure, Computational Modeling and Simulation Center, and Experimental Facilities, including a post-disaster, rapid response research facility. Awards made for NHERI will contribute to NSF's role in the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) and the National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program. NHERI continues NSF's emphasis on earthquake engineering research infrastructure previously supported under the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation as part of NEHRP, but now broadens that support to include wind engineering research infrastructure. NHERI has the broad goal of supporting research that will improve the resilience and sustainability of civil infrastructure, such as buildings and other structures, underground structures, levees, and critical lifelines, against the natural hazards of earthquakes and windstorms, in order to minimize loss of life, damage, and economic loss. In today's information age, this research requires the integration of data and computation. This award will provide the Cyberinfrastructure component for NHERI. This cyberinfrastructure component will develop the DesignSafe-ci.org web portal, a cyberinfrastructure for the natural hazards engineering community to provide computational tools to manage, analyze, and understand critical data for natural hazards research. DesignSafe-ci.org will include an interactive web interface, data repositories to share data sets, and a cloud-based workspace for researchers to perform simulation, computation, data analysis, and other research tasks. The integration of data and computation in the cloud will enable new research discoveries in natural hazards engineering, which in turn can lead to more hazard-resilient civil infrastructure.Natural hazards engineering research conducted with NHERI resources will require integration of diverse data sets from a variety of sources, including experiments, computational simulation, field reconnaissance, earth science, social science, building science, and architecture. DesignSafe-ci.org will embrace a "cloud" strategy for the "big data" generated in natural hazards engineering research. It will be designed based upon a set of proven technologies, drawn from other large-scale, NSF-supported open science infrastructures, and will leverage the computing and storage platforms already supported by NSF. DesignSafe-ci.org will provide a comprehensive cyberinfrastructure that supports research workflows, data analysis and visualization, and the full lifecycle of experimental, field, and computational data required by engineers and scientists to effectively address the threats posed to civil infrastructure by natural hazards. DesignSafe-ci.org will include the following resources: (1) interactive DesignSafe-ci.org web portal, (2) Data Depot, a flexible data repository with streamlined data management tools, (3) Reconnaissance Integration Portal, which provides access to post-disaster, rapid response research reconnaissance data through a geospatial framework, (4) Discovery Workspace, which allows simulation, data analytics, and visualization to be performed in the cloud and linked with data in the Data Depot, (5) Learning Center, which provides training and educational materials, and (6) Developer's Portal for users to develop new cyberinfrastructure capabilities. This award will also provide the natural hazards research community with access to high performance computing resources and user support, data curation, and publisher services.