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NEESgrid will link earthquake researchers across the U.S. with leading-edge computing resources and research equipment, allowing collaborative teams (including remote participants) to plan, perform, and publish their experiments. NEESgrid, the systems integration component of the NEES project, uses the newest and fastest communications technologies to tie the NEES network together.
NEESgrid connects earthquake engineering researchers throughout the United States and the world, is the result of an intensive collaboration effort led by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Through the NEESgrid, researchers will:

perform tele-observation and tele-operation of experiments;
publish to and make use of a curated data repository using standardized markup;
access computational resources and open-source analytical tools;
access collaborative tools for experiment planning, execution, analysis, and publication.

The task of designing and creating this infrastructure has been awarded to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The components of the NEESgrid system will be completed by September, 2004, when management and operation of the NEES system will be turned over to a consortium of earthquake engineer researchers and practitioners.