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),...

Cyberinfrastructure for the Materials Genome Initiative

11 Sep 2013 | 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...

Data-driven Collaboration Environments: Integrating HUBZero and iRODS

24 Jun 2016 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Rajesh Kalyanam (presenter), Lan Zhao, Rob Campbell, Carol Song

As part of an effort to establish a community-based data sharing environment, we previously developed a HUBzero-based web component, iData. Using the open-source data management software, iRODS, iData provides hub users and tools with the ability to publish, manage, discover and consume data in a...

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...

Developing a Collaborative Environment for Useful to Usable Project

09 Oct 2014 | Seminars | 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 | Seminars | 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)...

Developing hub tools that submit HPC jobs

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Rob Campbell

The HUBzero platform provides much support for tool development in addition to Rappture. Based on my experiences with writing the SubmiR tool for the DiaGrid.org hub, this presentation will focus on coding an application that imports data, submits an HPC job, and updates the user with job status....

DiaGrid + HUBzero: Power to the People

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Carol Song, Rob Campbell, Kevin chen, Steven Clark, Brian Raub, Christopher Thompson

DiaGrid is a distributed computing resource based on a federated HTCondor pool with more than 50,000 processor cores today and has delivered nearly 100 million computational jobs to date. A new HUBzero-based web front end to DiaGrid, diagrid.org (aka DiaGrid HUB), is now available for researchers...

DMPTool: Expert Resources and Support for Data Management Planning

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Tao Zhang

A growing number of US federal funding agencies require data management plans (DMP) as part of new research grant proposals. One of the challenges facing institutions is providing a support structure for potential researcher knowledge gaps in the process. The DMPTool is a free, open source tool...

Dynamic Graphical Workflow Management in the Hub

24 Jun 2016 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Jason Michael Thiese, Matthew D Jacobsen, James Fourman, Claire Stirm

A graphical workflow management system is being developed to meet multiple research community needs, such as the coordination of experiments and simulations, data capture using consistent formats, avoidance of data loss, scheduling of resources, and traceability of the overall research process....

Enabling computational modeling and geospatial data analysis through HUBzero

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Venkatesh Merwade, Lan Zhao, Carol Song

Water-HUB is developed as a collaborative platform for hydrology researchers, educators and policy makers. Currently, a commonly used hydrologic model called Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) is used to link hydrologists through a SWATShare interface on Water-HUB. SWATShare enables any...

Enhancement of System Design and the Research Landscape through Process and Data Modeling

24 Jun 2016 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Elizabeth Wirrig, Matthew D Jacobsen, Lori Simmons, Lydia O\'connell, K. Rebecca Servaites, Kevin Porter, Claire Stirm

One purpose of the Materials Genome Initiative is to reduce the lead time of materials development. In support of this initiative, Integrated Computational Materials Science and Engineering (ICMSE) in the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate at the Air Force Research Laboratory is developing a...

Expedition Antioquia, a hub to promote richness and diversity for equity in Antioquia

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Juan Guillermo Lalinde, Juan Pineda, Leidy Lorena Alzate-Vargas (presenter)

Antioquia is one of Colombian departments (states) characterized by its richness, its diversity and, unfortunately, its inequity. Expedition Antioquia, is a research program involving more than 10 universities in the region, with the objective of become a hub for information about Antioquia and...

Federated Identity Management with OpenID Connect & Federated Digital Object Management through Persistent Identification

24 Jun 2016 | Series | Contributor(s): Kevin Porter, Matthew D Jacobsen, Jason Michael Thiese, Claire Stirm

The Integrated Collaborative Environment (ICE) is a federated software framework that aims at connecting disparate systems for the purpose of enhanced productivity in the AFRL community. To meet demands for greater efficiency and better research, ICE acts as a common mediator between numerous...

Fez: a Hatrack for your Metadata

09 Oct 2014 | Seminars | 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...

Future Directions

09 Oct 2014 | Seminars | 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.

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...

Getting Started with HUBzero/VM Setup

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Erich Huebner

If you have ever wanted to have your own copy of HUBzero, we will demo how to setup our open source VM. This talk will be mostly concerned with the technical setup that will include VMware installation and configuration, linux ethernet configuration, URL setup and new admin user creation.

How Cyberinfrastructure is Advancing the Frontiers of Science

24 Jun 2016 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Amy Walton (presenter)

NSF is involved in a number of challenging research initiatives, such as understanding the human brain; making interdependent critical infrastructure systems more resilient; securing and protecting food, energy and water resources; designing cyber-enabled materials that sense, respond and adapt...