NanoElectronic Modeling with the NEMO toolkit on nanoHUB

08 Oct 2014 | 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...

WS-PGRADE/gUSE: supporting e-Science communities in Europe

08 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Zoltan Farkas

Scientists without a strong background in IT need user-friendly science gateways to run their experiments on different compute infrastructures using data from diverse types of storage services. A proper core science gateway framework can be used to hide the details of accessing these compute and...

The Use of Super Groups to Support AAU and the STEM Undergraduate Education Initiative

08 Oct 2014 | 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...

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

08 Oct 2014 | 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,...

Red Cloud

08 Oct 2014 | 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...

NCIPHub.org – A Collaborative for Informatics in Cancer Research

08 Oct 2014 | 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...

Building the real-time hub

08 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Andy Burnett, David Lomas

Many forms of collaboration can be significantly enhanced through the addition of real-time interaction. This presentation will cover our experiments in integrating Node.js with HUBzero, and creating real-time applications that live within the existing HUBzero framework.

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...

State of the Hub: 2014

08 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Michael McLennan

Welcoming remarks at HUBbub 2014. 

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...

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

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...

Advanced Rappture Concepts

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.This talk picks up where "More Rappture Objects" left off, showing some of the more advanced constructs in Rappture. Use...

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,...

Using Workspaces to Develop Tools

05 Apr 2010 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Michael McLennan

One of the most powerful tools on any hub is something we call a workspace, which is a full-featured Linux desktop that you can access any time, any place, from your web browser. Workspaces are fully loaded with the latest open source software, including HUBzero's own Rappture toolkit, Octave, a...

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...

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...

Adding Rappture to MATLAB Applications

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. MATLAB is a powerful commercial tool which supports simulation and modeling across a wide range of science and...

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...

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...