Purdue NExT: Your Expertise Evolved

11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Steve Dunlop, Thomas Haley-Hermiz

This presentation takes participants through the highlights of the recently reconfigured HUBzero Learning Management System (LMS) by exploring Purdue NExT. Purdue NExT utilizes the HUBzero technology to move beyond the Massive Online Open Course, or MOOC model, to a self-sustaining business model...

Putting the "I" Back in CIO

08 Oct 2014 | 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...

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...

Regression Testing

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

This talk describes the new Rappture Regression Tester tool, which executes a series of tests that you define to verify the correct operation of your tool. Use this tool as you fix bugs and introduce new features, to make sure that your tool continues to function correctly in all cases.

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: 2013

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | 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...

State of the Hub: 2014

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

Welcoming remarks at HUBbub 2014. 

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,...

Templates and Overrides

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Shawn Rice

This presentation was a live demo of creating output overrides documented here: https://hubzero.org/documentation/1.2.0/webdevs/templates.overrides. (No slides were used for this presentation.)

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 nanoHUB-U initiative: Goals, Status, and Experiences

18 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta, Mark Lundstrom

The nanoHUB-U initiative is designed to help prepare seniors, graduate students and practicing engineers for the multidisciplinary research and technology environment of the 21st Century, through a unique curriculum: (1) which is cutting-edge and yet broadly accessible to all science and...

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 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...

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...

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...

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

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...