PERSONNEL: Funds are requested for salary support of a software engineer. We request $30K of salary and $10.8K of benefits. Depending on the qualifications of the applicant, this salary will provide support for a good part of one year. We would ask for more (and get a better person, maybe) if allowable.
SOFTWARE/HARDWARE: We request $10K for as yet unspecified purchases of software and hardware. While much of the software tools will be developed in house, there is existing commercial software designed to allow real-time access to the global seismic network data. Antelope software developed by BRTT is becoming the academic standard (http://www.brtt.com). At present, the cost of this software is under negotiation with the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS), of which the University of Oregon is a member. Commercially, the software sells for about $10k. Conversations with BRTT indicate that because we are an IRIS-member institution, we would get a discount.
One restriction related to the Antelope Real Time System is that it is designed to work on machines running the Solaris operating system (most seismologists around have adopted Sun workstations as the standard for tool development). This implies that BRTT software is not WEB-oriented, i.e., it requires a server. Since the Solaris operating system can operate on PCs and Suns, we anticipate that we may need to invest in some additional hardware to act as a server for the class.
Since the BRTT software will also be used in our research, Toomey will
share costs on purchases of software that can also be used in his research
program.
A. SALARY