NanoElectronic Modeling with the NEMO toolkit on nanoHUB

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...

WS-PGRADE/gUSE: supporting e-Science communities in Europe

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...

The Use of Super Groups to Support AAU and the STEM Undergraduate Education Initiative

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...

Teaching Big Data analysis in the Social Sciences using a HUBzero-based platform

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,...

Red Cloud

08 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): David Lifka

Red Cloud is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offered by the Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing. Red Cloud is a hybrid-cloud that runs the open source Eucalyptus cloud computing platform which is fully Amazon Web Service (AWS) compatible and provides the ability for users to...

NCIPHub.org – A Collaborative for Informatics in Cancer Research

08 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Ishwar Chandramouliswaran

An objective of the National Cancer Informatics Program at the National Cancer Institute is to facilitate open innovation and scientific collaboration in informatics to accelerate discovery in the cancer research community. The NCIP Hub is a HUBzero-based project and is intended to serve as an...

Building the real-time hub

08 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Andy Burnett, David Lomas

Many forms of collaboration can be significantly enhanced through the addition of real-time interaction. This presentation will cover our experiments in integrating Node.js with HUBzero, and creating real-time applications that live within the existing HUBzero framework.

Putting the "I" Back in CIO

08 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Gerry McCartney

No new technology has the potential to make or break IT like data science. For the CIO, the promise of a strategic role in the organization has always been contained in the "I" in the title: technology has just been an operational opening act. For the first time, we can deliver...

State of the Hub: 2014

08 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Michael McLennan

Welcoming remarks at HUBbub 2014. 

HUBbub 2014

06 Oct 2014 | Series

This conference, held on Sept. 29-30 (with Hub Hero Challenge on Oct. 1), at the Sheraton Indianapolis City Centre, presented an overview of the latest features in the HUBzero tool box and how they can be used to address the unique challenges of scientific pursuits. Experts in...

Volunteer Computing for Hubs

18 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): David Anderson

Volunteer computing is a low-cost way to increase the computing power of science portals. In this approach, groups of jobs submitted to a portal are executed on the desktop and laptop computers belonging to portal participants or to the general public. We are adding this capability to HUBzero by...

Hubs in Space

18 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Andy Burnett

Astrobiologyfuture.org is a HUBzero-based site for Astrobiologists. The site was established, on behalf of NASA, to act as a focal point for the development of an astrobiology roadmap. This presentation will explore:- How we formed the community- HUBzero’s role in the overall project- The...

The nanoHUB-U initiative: Goals, Status, and Experiences

18 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta, Mark Lundstrom

The nanoHUB-U initiative is designed to help prepare seniors, graduate students and practicing engineers for the multidisciplinary research and technology environment of the 21st Century, through a unique curriculum: (1) which is cutting-edge and yet broadly accessible to all science and...

Databases at the Hub: Now you can create them yourself!

18 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Ann Christine Catlin, Sudheera R. Fernando, Sumudinie Fernando, Ruchith Fernando, Ruwan J Egoda Gamage

There are more than thirty medical and scientific databases established across ten Hubs. All databases were created using our Hub-based “data technology” components, with interesting new features and capabilities added to the technology for each new project. We have customized these databases for...

Using the HUB to Study Disaster Events

18 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Eric Letvin, Santiago Pujol

NIST is creating a Disaster and Failure Events Data Repository which will host a national archival database of significant hazard events, the observed performance of the built environment during those events, associated emergency response and evacuation procedures where appropriate, and the...

HUBzero roadmap discussion

18 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Michael McLennan

HUBbub 2013, Day 1 Morning Sessions

12 Sep 2013 | Series

HUBbub is the annual User Conference for researchers, educators, and IT professionals engaged in building and using cyberinfrastructure. Learn about the latest features in the HUBzero tool box and how they can be used to address the unique challenges of scientific pursuits. Hear from invited...

Hub Owners/Managers Users Group led by Hub Owners for Hub Owners

12 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Ann Bessenbacher

According to Etienne Wenger, a Community of Practice (COP) has three characteristics First, a COP has an identity defined by a shared domain of interest. Membership therefore implies a commitment to the domain, and therefore a shared competence that distinguishes members from other people....

Courses Component

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Emily Kayser

This presentation will demo the HUBzero Courses component. It will describe features and functionality of this new component, including:- Course Builder – Uploading content (homework, lecture videos) and creating exams- Creating discussion posts- The differences between the Instructor and Student...

Projects, Gdrive and Databases

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Alissa Nedossekina

This presentation will demo the Projects component and its brand new features, including connection of Project Files to Google Drive, LaTex compile feature, DataStore Lite and Publishing.