Fez: a Hatrack for your Metadata

09 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Sam Wilson, Nathan Denny

Research data is being generated and modified at an increasingly accelerated rate. Iterations and derivations are being crafted at an almost equal velocity. With this increase comes a growing need to track the metadata about the data being generated. This data is currently typically housed in...

AgMIP Data Aggregator: Leveraging Globus Online and HUBzero to Make Global Spatial Data Accessible

09 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Lan Zhao, Carol Song, Nelson B. Villoria, Hongjun Choi, Steven Clark

As part of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP, http://www.agmip.org), the Global Gridded Crop Model Intercomparison group ran a suite of global climate models and crop models to estimate historical and future changes in yields for crops under different climate...

Developing a Collaborative Environment for Useful to Usable Project

09 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Larry Biehl (presenter), Carol Song, Lan Zhao, Christopher Panza, Brian Raub, Luke Policinski

HUBzero is being used as a collaborative environment for the Useful to Usable (U2U) project funded by the USDA. U2U is an integrated research and extension project working to improve farm resilience and profitability in the North Central U.S. by transforming existing climate data into usable...

Developing Geospatial Modeling and Data Analysis Building Blocks in HUBzero (GABBs)

09 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Carol Song, Larry Biehl, Venkatesh Merwade, Nelson Villoria

Responding to the need for geospatial tool and data capabilities in HUBzero from various communities, a Purdue team is developing and integrating geospatial capabilities into the HUBzero software. Funded by the National Science Foundation’s Data Infrastructure Building Blocks (DIBBs)...

Future Directions

09 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Michael McLennan, Shawn Rice

HUBzero Roadmap and the Future of the CMSWhere we've been, where we are, and where we're going. A brief look at the direction of and changes to HUBzero's Content Management System.

Center for Trustworthy Scientific Cyberinfrastructure

09 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Von Welch

The Center for Trustworthy Scientific Cyberinfrastructure (CTSC / trustedci.org) is a NSF-funded project to provide cybersecurity leadership and applied research for the NSF scientific computing community. CTSC has engaged with nearly a dozen NSF project on cybersecurity challenges as well as...

The Vhub experience – online simulations are the water coolers...

09 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Abani K. Patra

In this talk we will discuss the growth and evolution of vhub.org an online collaboratory for volcanology. Volcanology is a complex discipline with a wide range of skillsets from field work, laboratory work, complex data gathering and analysis, mechanics, modeling and simulation all used in an...

Who are we talking about? The Role of Person Identifiers in Scholarly Communications

08 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Laura Paglione

Persistent unique identifiers have been a mainstay in scholarly communication for many years. It would be difficult to think of precisely describing a book without its ISBN or an article without its DOI. Until recently, identifiers most commonly referred to the activities or outcomes of research,...

CyberInfrastructure for Computational Science

08 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Victoria Stodden

From funding agency initiatives to changes in research and teaching practices, it is becoming widely recognized that computational environments are a key component in the generation of reliable scientific results. In this talk I trace some of the history of Problem Solving Environments (PSEs),...

A Multi OS Hub Approach: Integrating the Windows Operating System Into the Hub

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...

Inter-Institutional Collaboration for Research in Information Security

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...

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.