HUBzero Tutorials: Spam Management

Seminars | 18 Jan 2017 | Contributor(s): Erich Huebner

This tutorial will be focused on identifying spam accounts, how to disable them and how to mitigate future spam account creation. We invite community members to join us and participate in the discussion

HUBzero: A Platform for Scientific Research, Education, and Collaboration

Seminars | 20 Mar 2015 | Contributor(s): Michael McLennan

HUBzero® is an open source software platform used to build web sites for collaboration in an academic setting.  HUBzero supports data management, computation, and the natural synergy between education and research.  This talk gives an overview of the platform, showing how it...

Hub Users' Group

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

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

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

Seminars | 16 Oct 2014 | 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...

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

Seminars | 13 Oct 2014

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, Day 1 Morning Sessions

Series | 09 Oct 2014

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...

RWater: A WaterHub tool for K-12 School Hydrology Education

Seminars | 09 Oct 2014 | 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...

A Geospatial Search Component for HUBzero

Seminars | 09 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Tao Zhang, Brandon M Beatty, Christopher Cody Charles, Nicole Kong

In this presentation, we report the development of a map-based component for browsing and searching for members, events, and jobs information on HABRI (Human-Animal Bond Research Initiative) Central, a HUBzero-based digital library project jointly run by between Purdue Libraries and...

Fez: a Hatrack for your Metadata

Seminars | 09 Oct 2014 | 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...

AgMIP Data Aggregator: Leveraging Globus Online and HUBzero to Make Global Spatial Data Accessible

Seminars | 09 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Lan Zhao, Carol Song, Nelson B. Villoria, Hongjun Choi, Steven Clark

As part of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP, http://www.agmip.org), the Global Gridded Crop Model Intercomparison group ran a suite of global climate models and crop models to estimate historical and future changes in yields for crops under different climate...

Developing a Collaborative Environment for Useful to Usable Project

Seminars | 09 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Larry Biehl (presenter), Carol Song, Lan Zhao, Christopher Panza, Brian Raub, Luke Policinski

HUBzero is being used as a collaborative environment for the Useful to Usable (U2U) project funded by the USDA. U2U is an integrated research and extension project working to improve farm resilience and profitability in the North Central U.S. by transforming existing climate data into usable...

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

Seminars | 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)...

Future Directions

Seminars | 09 Oct 2014 | 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.

Center for Trustworthy Scientific Cyberinfrastructure

Seminars | 09 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Von Welch

The Center for Trustworthy Scientific Cyberinfrastructure (CTSC / trustedci.org) is a NSF-funded project to provide cybersecurity leadership and applied research for the NSF scientific computing community. CTSC has engaged with nearly a dozen NSF project on cybersecurity challenges as well as...

The Vhub experience – online simulations are the water coolers...

Seminars | 09 Oct 2014 | 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...

Who are we talking about? The Role of Person Identifiers in Scholarly Communications

Seminars | 08 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Laura Paglione

Persistent unique identifiers have been a mainstay in scholarly communication for many years. It would be difficult to think of precisely describing a book without its ISBN or an article without its DOI. Until recently, identifiers most commonly referred to the activities or outcomes of research,...

CyberInfrastructure for Computational Science

Seminars | 08 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Victoria Stodden

From funding agency initiatives to changes in research and teaching practices, it is becoming widely recognized that computational environments are a key component in the generation of reliable scientific results. In this talk I trace some of the history of Problem Solving Environments (PSEs),...

A Multi OS Hub Approach: Integrating the Windows Operating System Into the Hub

Seminars | 08 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Christopher Joseph Nuland

The Linux operating system lends itself nicely to the Hub platform and tool sets. However, Microsoft Windows is still the most widely used in nearly all industries. For research heavy industries, like nano technology or genetics, Linux is the main operating system of choice; but for industries...