Garner Valley Experiment - Remote particpation

Introduction and Welcome

On August 19-21 2004, a joint experiment is taking place in Garner Valley, CA, at the Garner Valley Downhole Seismographic Array. (GVDSA).

We have installed and configured services to allow remote users to view streaming experimental data and live video while the experiment is occurring. This page is for anyone who would like to participate and view data or video. There's no cost, no registration and no signup. You just need to install the client software as explained below, and follow the directions.

Software requirements

The streaming data and video are both using a commercial program called the Creare Data Turbine. It's free for non-commercial uses such as NEESGrid, and there's a download link below. To run the Creare viewers, you need to have Java installed on your machine.

Download Instructions

http://java.sun.com/ is where you can download Java. Please get version 1.4.2, not the beta 1.5! You can use either the SE (runtime only, no compiler) or SDK (runtime and compiler) versions.
http://outlet.creare.com/rbnb/download.html is the download link. Please install into the default location, so the scripts will work for you!

Instructions for Running the Viewers

If you are running Microsoft Windows

Check Java installation

Go to the start menu, select "Run", and enter

cmd

as the command to run. If you have an older version of windows, this may return an error; if it does please run

command

instead.

First off, we'll check to make sure java runs correctly by running

 java -version

You should see something like this:

screenshot of cmd window

Check Data Turbine installation

By default, the Data Turbine installs into C:\Program Files\RBNB\V2.4.3
I'll assume that this is where you have installed it, otherwise you may need to tweak these slightly.

From the same command window, type the following exactly:

cd \program\ files
cd RBNB\v2.4.3\bin
java -jar plot.jar

You should see the following:

Plot and command window

If this works, great - you now have everything you need to participate!

If you running Mac OSX or other Unix

The Windows instructions apply, but the paths will be different - for example, on OSX, the turbine installs into Applications. The instructions are otherwise identical.

Running the data viewers

MS Windows

I've written a couple of batch files to get you connected. You can download and run these, or run the commands youself.

gv-data.bat will run the Plot program and connect you to the turbine at UCSB. Once its running, press the Channels button to select what you want to watch.
gv-video.bat will run the video viewer. You'll need to select the 'Monitor' checkbox to get a live feed.

Unix

For video, cd into the RBNB/bin directory, and run

java -jar rbnbjview.jar -a nees.ucsb.edu -c "GarnerTPS/video.jpg" &

For data, from the same directory, run

java -jar plot.jar -r nees.ucsb.edu:3333 -S

Screenshots

Here's what you should see on Windows, after you download and run the gv-video.bat:

Video screenshot

Technical information, background, etc

Information on the site and seismology can be found at http://www.crustal.ucsb.edu/observatories/gvda/ and http://www.crustal.ucsb.edu/observatories/nees/Index.php.

Also, please see http://nees.ucsb.edu/projects/ for more information on the project in general.

Navigation links

Back to NEESGrid at Argonne

Back to home page

Support

This work was supported primarily by the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Program of the National Science Foundation under Award Number CMS-0117853.