Developing Geospatial Modeling and Data Analysis Building Blocks in HUBzero (GABBs)

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

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

20 Jun 2009 | Series | 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

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...

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...

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...

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.

HUB Application for Managing Experimental Knowledge

11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Girish S Joglekar, Arun Giridhar, Michael McLennan, George A Howlett, Rex Reklaitis

Experimentation is an integral part of any engineering or science-based knowledge creation activity. Moreover, the data generated by a systematic set of experiments are the foundation for the generalizations which constitute the derived knowledge. For the purpose of completeness, validation,...

Hub Owners/Managers Users Group led by Hub Owners for Hub Owners

12 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Ann Bessenbacher

According to Etienne Wenger, a Community of Practice (COP) has three characteristics First, a COP has an identity defined by a shared domain of interest. Membership therefore implies a commitment to the domain, and therefore a shared competence that distinguishes members from other people....

Hub Users' Group

17 Nov 2014 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Ann Bessenbacher (presenter)

The Hub Users' Group meeting at HUBbub 2014. Discussion led by Ann Bessenbacher.

HUBbub 2013

11 Sep 2013 | Series

This conference, held on Sept. 5-6, at the Sheraton Indianapolis City Centre, presented an overview of the latest features in the HUBzero tool box and how they can be used to address the unique challenges of scientific pursuits. Experts in cyberinfrastructure, social science, and national policy...

HUBbub 2014

06 Oct 2014 | Series

This conference, held on Sept. 29-30 (with Hub Hero Challenge on Oct. 1), at the Sheraton Indianapolis City Centre, presented an overview of the latest features in the HUBzero tool box and how they can be used to address the unique challenges of scientific pursuits. Experts in...

HUBbub 2014, Day 1 Morning Sessions

09 Oct 2014 | Series

HUBbub Plenary sessions on Sept. 29, 2014:State of the Hub: 2014 by Michael McLennanPutting the "I" Back in CIO by Gerry McCartneyBuilding the real-time hub by Andy Burnett and David LomasNCIPHub.org – A Collaborative for Informatics in Cancer Research by Ishwar...

HUBbub 2014, Days 1 & 2, Track 2: Web Development Training

13 Oct 2014 | Seminars

This track was a live demo of the documentation found here: https://hubzero.org/documentation/1.3.0/webdevs/components. The HUBzero web developers covered these specific topics:Getting your component up and runningWorking with dataAdding extensions to your componentSecurity considerations (slides...

HUBbub 2014, Days 1 & 2, Track 3: Tool Development Training

16 Oct 2014 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Derrick Kearney (presenter)

The HUBbub Tool Development training session on Sept. 29-30, 2014 covered the following topics:Using Simulation WorkspacesIntroducing the Rappture ToolkitWhat's Under the Hood?Using Rappture with MATLAB, C, and FortranMore Rappture ObjectsUsing "submit" for job submissionsUsing...

Hubs in Space

18 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Andy Burnett

Astrobiologyfuture.org is a HUBzero-based site for Astrobiologists. The site was established, on behalf of NASA, to act as a focal point for the development of an astrobiology roadmap. This presentation will explore:- How we formed the community- HUBzero’s role in the overall project- The...