Windows Tools on NEEShub
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The signature service of a hub is its ability to deliver interactive, graphical simulation tools through any web browser. In the world of portals and cyber-environments, this capability is unique. Unlike a portal, tools in a hub are interactive; actions can be performed, without waiting for a web page to refresh. Results can be visualized without having to obtain a login to a supercomputer, reserve time on a supercomputer, or wait for a batch job to engage. New tools can be deployed without writing special code for the web.
The Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) infrastructure is made up of 14 earthquake engineering and tsunami research sites located at universities across the United States. NEEShub (http://nees.org) connects the work of the research sites' experimental facilities, researchers, practitioners, educators, and students. NEEShub acts as the gateway to the earthquake engineering research data repositories and to a virtual research environment.
NEEShub is powered by the Hubzero infrastructure and hence includes a tool execution and delivery mechanism based on Virtual Network Computing (VNC). Using this architecture, NEEShub has over 50 different tools, out of which 11 are Windows based, with more tools under development. NEEShub relies on its user community to contribute tools and other resources. Participation from the community is important as this helps NEEScomm provide a more sophisticated set of useful tools to the NEES community.
NEEShub is the first and currently, the only hub that provides Windows based tools to the NEES community. This presentation will present greater insight into the tools that are available on the NEEShub, demonstrate the complete Windows tool contribution workflow and offer insight into the implementation details including the system architecture, software and hardware requirements.
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