State of the Hub: 2013

11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Michael McLennan

The HUBzero Platform continues to grow. The latest release supports data management through the “projects” component, database publication through the DataStore component, publications with digital object identifiers, a learning management system for online education, a Pinterest-style mechanism...

The New Logistics of Knowledge

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Gerry McCartney

Just as technology has transformed businesses that deal in information delivery, such as journalism and book publishing, many experts also expect that electronic technologies will transform higher education. While agreeing, Gerry McCartney believes the digital transformation won’t soon happen in...

Predictive science and engineering of materials & devices: towards cyber & computationally enabled decision-making

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Alejandro Strachan

The synergistic integration of predictive, physics-based modeling and experiments within a decision-making framework has the potential to revolutionize design and certification of materials and devices, reducing the cost and time involved in discovery and deployment. The impact of this approach...

Cyberinfrastructure for the Materials Genome Initiative

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Meredith Drosback

In June 2011 President Obama launched the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI), a multi-agency federal initiative designed to accelerate the discovery, manufacture, and deployment of advanced materials. The current materials R&D paradigm can take 20 years or more to move a new material from...

On Safari in nanoHUB: The Hunt for Prototypical Users

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Michael Zentner

nanoHUB annually produces a wealth of data about users interacting with the site. These data have a meaning that goes well beyond number of visits, download counts, and other simple metrics available from web analytics tools. These data more importantly have the potential to indicate how users...

GenomeHubs–Life Science Informatics & HPC

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Chris Dagdigian

Bioinformaticist-gone-bad Chris Dagdigian has spent the last 15 years as a high performance research IT specialist focusing on building, fixing, growing and optimizing IT systems designed to support & accelerate life science research. As a consultant, Chris gets to see how different organizations...

Uploading and Publishing New Tools

02 Apr 2011 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Michael McLennan

HUBzero lets you access simulation tools online via an ordinary web browser. Where do the tools come from? From you--hundreds of you throughout the world who are developing simulation and modeling tools for your hub. Anyone can upload their own code onto a hub and publish a tool for a limited...

Uploading and Publishing New Tools

05 Apr 2010 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Michael McLennan

HUBzero lets you access simulation tools online via an ordinary web browser. Where do the tools come from? From you--hundreds of you throughout the world who are developing simulation and modeling tools for your hub. Anyone can upload their own code onto a hub and publish a tool for a limited...

Advanced Rappture Concepts

05 Apr 2010 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Michael McLennan

Rappture is the Rapid APPlication infrastrucTURE, a toolkit within the HUBzero platform that makes it easy to develop a graphical user interface for scientific modeling tools.This talk picks up where "More Rappture Objects" left off, showing some of the more advanced constructs in Rappture. Use...

Rappture with C and Fortran

05 Apr 2010 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Michael McLennan

Rappture is the Rapid APPlication infrastrucTURE, a toolkit within the HUBzero platform that makes it easy to develop a graphical user interface for scientific modeling tools. Many such tools are written in C and Fortran.This talk picks up where "Introducing the Rappture Toolkit" left off,...

Using Workspaces to Develop Tools

05 Apr 2010 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Michael McLennan

One of the most powerful tools on any hub is something we call a workspace, which is a full-featured Linux desktop that you can access any time, any place, from your web browser. Workspaces are fully loaded with the latest open source software, including HUBzero's own Rappture toolkit, Octave, a...

The Hub Concept for Scientific Collaboration

02 Feb 2010 | Publications | Contributor(s): Michael McLennan

The software that powers the popular nanoHUB.org site has been extracted into package called the HUBzero Platform for Scientific Collaboration. The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, the research computing group at Purdue University, has been using this package for two years to create a...

Introduction to Scientific Programming in MATLAB

21 Jun 2009 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Michael McLennan

MATLAB is a powerful commercial tool which supports simulation and modeling across a wide range of science and engineering applications. Octave is an open source clone put out by GNU. Both tools make it extremely easy to express mathematical equations in a high-level programming language, and...

Adding Rappture to MATLAB Applications

21 Jun 2009 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Michael McLennan

Rappture is the Rapid application infrastructure, a toolkit within the HUBzero platform that makes it easy to develop a graphical user interface for scientific modeling tools. MATLAB is a powerful commercial tool which supports simulation and modeling across a wide range of science and...

Rappture with C and Fortran

21 Jun 2009 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Michael McLennan

Rappture is the Rapid application infrastructure, a toolkit within the HUBzero platform that makes it easy to develop a graphical user interface for scientific modeling tools. Many such tools are written in C and Fortran.This talk picks up where Introducing the Rappture Toolkit and Review of...

Developing Scientific Tools for the HUBzero Platform

20 Jun 2009 | Series | Contributor(s): Michael McLennan

HUBzero serves up simulation tools online that you can access via an ordinary web browser. Where do the tools come from? From people like you, working throughout the world on research and educational activities, wanting to give others access to their modeling codes. Anyone can upload their own...

Workspace

16 Apr 2009 | Tools | Contributor(s): Nicholas J. Kisseberth

Development Workspace