Hub Users' Group

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...

Inter-Institutional Collaboration for Research in Information Security

Seminars | 08 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Courtney Falk, Lauren Stuart

The Information Security Research and Education (INSuRE) project has a two-fold mission. First is to build a persistent, distributed network of research collaboration between the Centers for Academic Excellence in Research (CAE-R) at different universities. No such formal framework for...

NanoElectronic Modeling with the NEMO toolkit on nanoHUB

Seminars | 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

Seminars | 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

Seminars | 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...