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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 GABBs Report – Building Geospatial Capabilities in HUBzero
24 Jun 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Carol Song (presenter)
Geospatial data are present everywhere today with the proliferation of location-aware computing devices. This is especially true in the scientific community where large amounts of data are driving research and education activities in many domains. Collaboration over geospatial data, for example,...
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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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Towards accessible, reproducible, and transparent research in the life sciences: an innovative open source VRE approach in Western France
24 Jun 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Yvan Le Bras (presenter)
Research processes in Life Sciences are evolving at a rapid pace. This evolution, due to technological breakthroughs, allows to address more ambitious scientific problems and generalizes the digital aspect of the research data in Life Sciences. If facing the actual data deluge context represents...
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Upload, Configure, Analyze, and Share Geospatial Data in 3 Minutes
24 Jun 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Lan Zhao (presenter), Hou-Jen Ko, Carol Song
Geospatial data is growing rapidly in volumes thanks to the advancement of large observatories, sensor networks, GPS technologies, and personal devices. Such data is crucial in research and education across many disciplines, making great impacts on our daily life. However, it is not an easy task...
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Using the HUBZero Platform to Enable Remote Computing on DiaGrid
24 Jun 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Christopher Thompson, Robert L Campbell, Steven Clark, Claire Stirm
The DiaGrid hub has a history of creating tools using the HUBzero platform to connect users with scientific models running on computing resources around the world. We believe many tool developers could benefit from a presentation to discuss all the ways remote execution is supported including...
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View from Purdue's CIO
24 Jun 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Gerry McCartney (presenter)
A view from Purdue University's CIO of ITaP (Information Technology at Purdue).
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Virtual Infrastructure for Data Intensive Analysis: An Update
24 Jun 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Jeanette M Sperhac (presenter)
In order to expose undergraduates in the humanities to data intensive computing, University at Buffalo's Center for Computational Research (CCR) teamed with State University of New York (SUNY) Oneonta.The resulting HUBzero-based Virtual Infrastructure for Data Intensive Analysis (VIDIA) has...
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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...