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...

CyberSecurity for NEEShub: Best-practices and Lessons Learned

27 Sep 2012 | Contributor(s): Gaspar Modelo-Howard

The George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) operates a shared network of civil engineering experimental facilities aimed at facilitating research on mitigating the impact of earthquakes. The network depends on a reliable distributed cyberinfrastructure among 15...

Dash Test

Tools | 22 Oct 2017 | Contributor(s): Martin Hunt

Testing Dash Tool Deployment

Data Curation and Quality Assurance in NEEShub

Seminars | 27 Sep 2012 | Contributor(s): Stanislav Pejša

Earthquake engineering is a vibrant inter-disciplinary area that brings together researchers from seismology, structural, mechanical, and geotechnical engineering whose effort results in saving lives and protecting property during earthquakes and tsunamis. The NEES Data Repository serves the...

Data-driven Collaboration Environments: Integrating HUBZero and iRODS

Seminars | 24 Jun 2016 | 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...

Database Technology at the HUB: Interactive Data Views for Community Shared Data

Seminars | 06 Apr 2011 | Contributor(s): Ann Christine Catlin

A new "database" resource has been developed to serve the data sharing needs of hub communities. This resource was designed and implemented at cceHUB for the Cancer Care Engineering project, and is now operating across six hubs, offering sixteen community databases. The support...

Databases at the Hub: Now you can create them yourself!

Seminars | 11 Sep 2013 | 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...

Day-to-day Management

Seminars | 18 Apr 2011 | Contributor(s): Nikki Huang

This is the sixth and last of the presentations on configuring and managing your hub presented at HUBbub 2011. Answers to the following questions can be found in the handout attached:- What are tickets and how are they submitted?- How do we respond to tickets?- How do we approve pending...

Designing Your Ideal Creative Network

Seminars | 27 Sep 2012 | Contributor(s): Andy Burnett

Difficult problems can often be solved by talking with the 'right' person. But, finding that person can be tricky. Social networking systems might make this easier, but they aren't really designed for problem solving. This talk will explore some of the ways in which we might develop networks that...

Developing a Collaborative Environment for Useful to Usable Project

Seminars | 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)

Seminars | 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)...

Developing hub tools that submit HPC jobs

Seminars | 11 Sep 2013 | 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....

Developing Scientific Tools for the HUBzero Platform

Series | 20 Jun 2009 | 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...

DiaGrid + HUBzero: Power to the People

Seminars | 11 Sep 2013 | 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

Seminars | 11 Sep 2013 | 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...

DRINET Hub for Drought Information Synthesis, Modeling and Applications

Seminars | 07 Apr 2011 | Contributor(s): Lan Zhao, Carol Song

Authors: Lan Zhao, Carol SongAn interdisciplinary team of researchers is building the DRINET hub to support regional scale drought information dissemination and synthesis, and sharing of datasets, models and tools in an NSF-funded data interoperability project. The DRINET project engages diverse...

Dynamic Graphical Workflow Management in the Hub

Seminars | 24 Jun 2016 | 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

Seminars | 11 Sep 2013 | 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...