Predictive science and engineering of materials & devices: towards cyber & computationally enabled decision-making

11 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Alejandro Strachan

The synergistic integration of predictive, physics-based modeling and experiments within a decision-making framework has the potential to revolutionize design and certification of materials and devices, reducing the cost and time involved in discovery and deployment. The impact of this approach...

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...

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...