Partners of ERIC are discussing with a set of research institution in the US the possibility of a joint demonstration of distributed simulation across the Ocean. Main point of contacts at the moment are the Idaho National Lab (INL) and NREL (National Renewable Lab). The experiment will be performed this fall involving a network of institutions in Europe and US. The collaboration with INL is already quite active with a scientist from RWTH spending two periods of 6 months in the US.