Preventing Earthquake Disasters: The Grand Challenge in Earthquake Engineering Preventing Earthquake Disasters: The Grand Challenge in Earthquake Engineering

Preventing Earthquake Disasters: The Grand Challenge in Earthquake Engineering

A Research Agenda for the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)

  • Publisher: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 9780309090643
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780309527231
  • eISBN Epub: 9780309167000
  • Place of publication:  United States
  • Year of digital publication: 2008
  • Month: October
  • Pages: 159
  • Language: English

Many federal funding requests for more advanced computer resources assume implicitly that greater computing power creates opportunities for advancement in science and engineering. This has often been a good assumption. Given stringent pressures on the federal budget, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) are seeking an improved approach to the formulation and review of requests from the agencies for new computing funds.

This book examines, for four illustrative fields of science and engineering, how one can start with an understanding of their major challenges and discern how progress against those challenges depends on high-end capability computing (HECC). The four fields covered are:

  1. atmospheric science
  2. astrophysics
  3. chemical separations
  4. evolutionary biology

This book finds that all four of these fields are critically dependent on HECC, but in different ways. The book characterizes the components that combine to enable new advances in computational science and engineering and identifies aspects that apply to multiple fields.

  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Latinamericanism after 9/11
  • 2. The Persistence of the Nation (against Empire)
  • 3. Deconstruction and Latinamericanism (apropos AlbertoMoreiras’s The Exhaustion of Difference)
  • 4. Between Ariel and Caliban: The Politics of Location ofLatinamericanism and the Question of Solidarity
  • 5. The Neoconservative Turn
  • 6. Beyond the Paradigm of Disillusion: Rethinking the Armed Struggle in Latin America
  • 7. The Subaltern and the State
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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