The Hub Concept for Scientific Collaboration
Posted 02 Feb 2010 in Publications
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| Contributor(s) | Michael McLennan Purdue University |
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| Abstract | The software that powers the popular nanoHUB.org site has been extracted into package called the HUBzero Platform for Scientific Collaboration. The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, the research computing group at Purdue University, has been using this package for two years to create a variety of hubs for other disciplines, including pharmaHUB.org (pharmaceutical engineering), thermalHUB.org (heat transfer), memsHUB.org (microelectromechanical systems), cceHUB.org (cancer care engineering), and GlobalHUB.org (global engineering education), to name a few. Each new hub has the same capabilities as nanoHUB.org, but has its own content, its own tools, and its own community of scientific users. The HUBzero platform has been embraced by a consortium of universities, including Purdue, Indiana, Clemson, and Wisconsin. The package will be released as Open Source at the HUBbub 2010 Workshop in Indianapolis, Indiana, on April 13, 2010. After that date, any project can pick up the code from the hubzero.org site and start a new hub. The Rosen Center also offers a hosting service to Purdue faculty and other non-profit organizations interested in having IT support for designing and maintaining a HUBzero site. This whitepaper describes the capabilities of HUBzero and outlines the process of setting up a new hub using our hosted service. |
| sponsoredby | Thanks to the Network for Computational Nanotechnology and IT@P for their support of this work. |
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