HUBzero

Monday, 16 November 2009 12:00

Facebook for scientists -- but built to facilitate serious research rather than socializing -- and an award-winning method for putting idle computers to work on scientific breakthroughs are Purdue-developed technologies in the spotlight at the SC09, the world's largest high-performance computing conference.

Purdue University is highlighting the HUBzero and DiaGrid technologies at the university's booth at SC09, which opens Monday (Nov. 16) in Portland, Ore., and ends five days later.

HUBzero is a soon-to-be open source software platform developed by Purdue for deploying and applying computational research tools, visualizing and analyzing results interactively and publishing them, all through a familiar Web browser. Built-in social networking features akin to Facebook create communities of researchers and educators in science, engineering, medicine and almost any field or subject matter.