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...

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

08 Oct 2014 | Seminars | 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...

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

08 Oct 2014 | Seminars | 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...

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

09 Oct 2014 | Seminars | 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...

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

09 Oct 2014 | Seminars | 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...

Towards accessible, reproducible, and transparent research in the life sciences: an innovative open source VRE approach in Western France

24 Jun 2016 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Yvan Le Bras (presenter)

Research processes in Life Sciences are evolving at a rapid pace. This evolution, due to technological breakthroughs, allows to address more ambitious scientific problems and generalizes the digital aspect of the research data in Life Sciences. If facing the actual data deluge context represents...

Upload, Configure, Analyze, and Share Geospatial Data in 3 Minutes

24 Jun 2016 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Lan Zhao (presenter), Hou-Jen Ko, Carol Song

Geospatial data is growing rapidly in volumes thanks to the advancement of large observatories, sensor networks, GPS technologies, and personal devices. Such data is crucial in research and education across many disciplines, making great impacts on our daily life. However, it is not an easy task...

Uploading and Publishing New Tools

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): George A Howlett (presenter)

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...

Use of Hierarchical Keywords for Easy Data Management on HUBzero

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Gaurav Nanda, Jonathan Tan, Peter Auyeung, Bill Gaskill, Christopher A Smoak, mark lehto

Post implementation, HUBzero has been well accepted as a knowledge management and collaboration platform for the reliability engineering (RE) division of a large consumer goods company. Various RE tools are being used in the organization in form of spreadsheets. Automated workflows have been...

Using Simulation Workspaces

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): George A Howlett (presenter)

In this talk, users will learn what the workspace is, how to launch it, and get familiar with the environment.

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...

Using the HUBZero Platform to Enable Remote Computing on DiaGrid

24 Jun 2016 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Christopher Thompson, Robert L Campbell, Steven Clark, Claire Stirm

The DiaGrid hub has a history of creating tools using the HUBzero platform to connect users with scientific models running on computing resources around the world. We believe many tool developers could benefit from a presentation to discuss all the ways remote execution is supported including...

View from Purdue's CIO

24 Jun 2016 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Gerry McCartney (presenter)

A view from Purdue University's CIO of ITaP (Information Technology at Purdue).

Virtual Infrastructure for Data Intensive Analysis: An Update

24 Jun 2016 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Jeanette M Sperhac (presenter)

In order to expose undergraduates in the humanities to data intensive computing, University at Buffalo's Center for Computational Research (CCR) teamed with State University of New York (SUNY) Oneonta.The resulting HUBzero-based Virtual Infrastructure for Data Intensive Analysis (VIDIA) has...

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...

Web Components

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Christopher A Smoak, Sam Wilson

This presentation will cover the initial building blocks for constructing a basic Hub component. The first session will cover component structure, interacting with the database, including your own styles and scripts, and more. You’re expected to have an intermediate understanding of PHP, as well...

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

08 Oct 2014 | Seminars | 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,...

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

08 Oct 2014 | Seminars | 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,...

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

08 Oct 2014 | Seminars | 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...

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

08 Oct 2014 | Seminars | 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...