Interview with Michael McLennan

15 Jan 2016 | Contributor(s): Claire Stirm

Michael Mclennan, founding director of Hubzero, was interviewed by the Hubzero team about the history of Hubzero and how this software is useful to researchers and scientists in every field. 

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...

KnowEnG: A knowledge engine for genomics

24 Jun 2016 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Saurabh Sinha (presenter)

I will describe our on-going work on development of “Knowledge Engine for Genomics” (KnowEnG), an E-science framework for genomics where biomedical scientists will have access to powerful methods of data mining, network mining, and machine learning to extract knowledge out of genomics...

NanoElectronic Modeling with the NEMO toolkit on nanoHUB

08 Oct 2014 | Seminars | 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...

NCIPHub.org – A Collaborative for Informatics in Cancer Research

08 Oct 2014 | Seminars | 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...

Putting the "I" Back in CIO

08 Oct 2014 | Seminars | 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...

QUBES: A community supporting teaching and learning in quantitative biology

24 Jun 2016 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Michael Drew LaMar (presenter)

QUBES (Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis) is a 5-year, multi-institutional NSF-funded project to address a “call to action” in reports put forth by many institutions, including NSF, NIH, AAAS, and HHMI, among others. The challenges in these reports include...

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...

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,...

Red Cloud

08 Oct 2014 | Seminars | 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...

Remote Sensing Analysis on HUBzero

24 Jun 2016 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Larry Biehl (presenter)

MultiSpec is a remote sensing analysis tool being developed on MyGeoHub.org as part of the Geospatial Analysis Building Blocks (GABBs) NSF-funded and the IndianaView/AmericaView USGS-funded projects. The tool has been adapted from the desktop Macintosh and Windows versions...

RWater: A WaterHub tool for K-12 School Hydrology Education

09 Oct 2014 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Adnan Rajib, Venkatesh Merwade, Lan Zhao, Carol Song

Enhancing students’ analytical ability of interpreting complex hydrologic processes from limited classroom environment has been a subject of long-standing research. From this perspective, a new internet-based educational tool, called RWater, is developed using HUBzero based WaterHUB. The...

State of the Hub: 2014

08 Oct 2014 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Michael McLennan

Welcoming remarks at HUBbub 2014. 

Success Criteria for Establishing a Thriving HUBzero Based Site: A Model for Science 2.0

07 Apr 2011 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Lynn Zentner, Gerhard Klimeck, Krishna P. C. Madhavan, George B. Adams III

Authors: Lynn Zentner, Gerhard Klimeck, Krishna P. C. Madhavan, George Bunch Adams IIIScience gateways utilizing HUBzero technology provide the means for rapid dissemination and use of research results by a global research and education community, extending resources that used to be available to...

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

08 Oct 2014 | Seminars | 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,...

The GABBs Report – Building Geospatial Capabilities in HUBzero

24 Jun 2016 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Carol Song (presenter)

Geospatial data are present everywhere today with the proliferation of location-aware computing devices. This is especially true in the scientific community where large amounts of data are driving research and education activities in many domains. Collaboration over geospatial data, for example,...

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...

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...

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...