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Teaching Big Data analysis in the Social Sciences using a HUBzero-based platform
Seminars | 08 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Jeanette M Sperhac, Steve Gallo, Jim B Greenberg, Brian Lowe, Bill Wilkerson, Greg Fulkerson, Brett Heindl
Large datasets culled from social media can easily grow to a size beyond the analytical capability of common software tools. Undergraduate institutions such as comprehensive colleges often lack the computing infrastructure and support personnel needed to allow students and researchers to create,...
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The Use of Super Groups to Support AAU and the STEM Undergraduate Education Initiative
Seminars | 08 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Ann Bessenbacher
STEMEdhub.org, a HUBzero hosted hub, at its core is focused on supporting, promoting and hosting STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Education Research. Due to the close nature of the work on STEMEdhub.org and the AAU STEM Education Undergraduate Initiative, we decided to...
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WS-PGRADE/gUSE: supporting e-Science communities in Europe
Seminars | 08 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Zoltan Farkas
Scientists without a strong background in IT need user-friendly science gateways to run their experiments on different compute infrastructures using data from diverse types of storage services. A proper core science gateway framework can be used to hide the details of accessing these compute and...
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NanoElectronic Modeling with the NEMO toolkit on nanoHUB
Seminars | 08 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Jim Fonseca, Gerhard Klimeck
330,000 users visited nanoHUB in the past year to learn about and do research using 330 nanotechnology simulation tools and 4,200 resources. The NEMO NanoElectronicsMOdelling engines power several of these Rappture based nanoHUB tools, each with a focus on the study of electronic properties of...
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Inter-Institutional Collaboration for Research in Information Security
Seminars | 08 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Courtney Falk, Lauren Stuart
The Information Security Research and Education (INSuRE) project has a two-fold mission. First is to build a persistent, distributed network of research collaboration between the Centers for Academic Excellence in Research (CAE-R) at different universities. No such formal framework for...
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A Multi OS Hub Approach: Integrating the Windows Operating System Into the Hub
Seminars | 08 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Christopher Joseph Nuland
The Linux operating system lends itself nicely to the Hub platform and tool sets. However, Microsoft Windows is still the most widely used in nearly all industries. For research heavy industries, like nano technology or genetics, Linux is the main operating system of choice; but for industries...