A Science Collaboration Environment for the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation

The vision of cyberinfrastructure is to provide “the comprehensive infrastructure needed to capitalize on dramatic advances in information technology,” in support of science and engineering applications. The development of collaboration environments based on “science portals” plays an important role in achieving this cyberinfrastructure vision. While online, discipline-specific problem solving environments have been in use for many years, the attempt to create a common cyberinfrastructure for this purpose is a more recent development. In this paper, we address the current effort for building such a science collaboration portal as a joint effort between the GEON (GEOsciences Network) and NEES (Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation) projects. In particular, we present recent work in developing portlets for providing access to computational simulation tools.