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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...
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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...
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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...
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RWater: A WaterHub tool for K-12 School Hydrology Education
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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State of the Hub: 2014
08 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s):: Michael McLennan
Welcoming remarks at HUBbub 2014.
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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,...
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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...
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The Vhub experience – online simulations are the water coolers...
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
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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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...