On Safari in nanoHUB: The Hunt for Prototypical Users

11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Michael Zentner

nanoHUB annually produces a wealth of data about users interacting with the site. These data have a meaning that goes well beyond number of visits, download counts, and other simple metrics available from web analytics tools. These data more importantly have the potential to indicate how users...

GenomeHubs–Life Science Informatics & HPC

11 Sep 2013 | 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...

Creating a Materials Innovation Infrastructure

08 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Matthew D Jacobsen, Charles Ward

Establishing a pervasive Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) environment requires model-based definition of materials and processes in a historically ad hoc and disconnected research environment, which in turn demands a significant paradigm shift in both capability and culture....