nanoHUB.org and HUBzero

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nanoHUB.org and HUBzeroPlatform for
Reproducible Computational Experiments

• Michael McLennanDirector and Chief Architect,
  Hub Technology Group
• and
• George B. Adams III
• Deputy Director, NCN and nanoHUB.org
• Purdue University

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Platform for Scientific Collaboration
YouTube for simulationand modeling tools
Little bit of social networking e.g., Questions
Answers
Web Server
Physical Machine
Secure execution environment
Maxwells Daemon
Virtual Machine
Virtual economy for incentives and managing
resources
Tools powered by Grid infrastructure
Integrated visualization
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Cyberinfrastructure for Running Tools
Maxwells Daemon Middleware
ContentDatabase
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nanowire job
nanowire job
nanowire job
tool session cluster
nanoVIS
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Rappture Rapid Application Infrastructure

Simulation Code
Rappture

• Works with your favorite programming language
• Open Source
• Online at http//rappture.org
• Used by 180 projects and 200 developers

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nanoHUB.org powered by HUBzero
122,000 users worldwide
All Top 50 US Engr Schools 14 of all .edu
domains25 of MSI with STEM programs 660 Authors
contributing content
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A New Way of Publishing
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Hubs ? Us
hubzero.org

• Feb 2007 1 hub
• Feb 2008 5 hubs
• Feb 2009 8 hubs
• Feb 2010 21 hubs
• Each hub has its ownfunding stream
• HUBzero an organizationwith Recharge Center

new
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HUBzero Consortium

• Four founding members
• Ongoing development of HUBzero core
• Documentation http//hubzero.org/documentation
  
• Dissemination and support, yearly conference

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Recent Workshop
University Place Conference Center

• April 13-14, 2010
• Indianapolis, IN
• Open Source Release!
• Tutorial Tracks
• Setting up a new hub
• Managing hub content
• Creating and publishing scientific tools
• Extending hub functionality through PHP/web
  programming
• http//hubzero.org/hubbub2010

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HUBzero Roadmapand Community Feedback

• George Adams and Michael McLennan
• HUBzero Consortium

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Grand Challenges
Feedback from our survey
Challenges Dealing with large data sets,
usability, visualization
Federated access to the hub so I can integrate a
variety of web resources and so my users can
seamlessly access resources in multiple security
domains.
Creating the tools to enable community authoring
of content to share between teachers, as well as
enabling and enforcing the proper relationships
and data privacy for teacher/student and
teacher/class relationships.
Elevate computing and software development to the
same level of reproducibility and peer review as
traditional publishing.
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How will HUBzero grow?
Computational Capacity
Digital Stewardship
Collaboration Scientific Processes
Data Management
Release 1.0
The best way to predict the future is to invent
it. Alan Kay
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How will HUBzero grow?
Computational Capacity
Digital Stewardship
Collaboration Scientific Processes
Data Management
Release 1.0
The best way to predict the future is to invent
it. Alan Kay
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Build collections of data and tools that mine it

• Cancer Care Engineering - cceHUB.org
• Led by Ann Christine Catlin
• Built a Rappture-like spec for databases
• Collective blood samples
• Building an analysis pipeline

• Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation
  (NEES)
• 105M NSF project across 14 institutions
• Share/analyze experimental data

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How will HUBzero grow?
Computational Capacity
Digital Stewardship
Collaboration Scientific Processes
Data Management
Release 1.0
The best way to predict the future is to invent
it. Alan Kay
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A New Way of Publishing

• Connections to literature
• Citation instructions
• COinS for Zotero

• Seed Project RDF triples for tools and other
  resources on nanoHUB.org
• Michael Witt, Assistant Prof of Library Science
• Explore the utility of Linked Data within the
  hubs

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Other ideas?

• Digital objects archive
• New visualization modalities Paraview, VISIT,
  GIS
• Free online web meeting capability
• Integration with Facebook, LinkedIn, Skype
• Group calendar
• Blogs on the member profile page
• Discussion time What do you want?

Make a wish http//hubzero.org/wishlist