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Hub Users' Group
17 Nov 2014 | Contributor(s):: Ann Bessenbacher (presenter)
The Hub Users' Group meeting at HUBbub 2014. Discussion led by Ann Bessenbacher.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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),...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Teaching Big Data analysis in the Social Sciences using a HUBzero-based platform
Seminars | 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,...