The Hub Concept for Scientific Collaboration
Posted 02 Nov, 2008 in Publications
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| Contributor(s) | Michael McLennan Purdue University, West Lafayette |
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| Abstract | Starting in October 2002, the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) was formed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and charged with a mission to create, deploy, and operate a national resource for theory, modeling, and simulation in nanotechnology, to connect users in research, education, design, and manufacturing. In the course of this work, researchers in the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing at Purdue University created a cyberinfrastructure embodied by the web site at nanoHUB.org. The popularity of nanoHUB has skyrocketed since its inception. During the period October 2007 to September 2008, more than 81,000 people accessed nanoHUB to view a collection of seminars, tutorials, animations, publications, and simulation tools submitted by more than 550 contributors from all over the world. A little more than half of all users come from the United States, and less than 15% are from Purdue; the others come from 172 countries all over the world. The underlying platform for nanoHUB has been extracted into a package called HUBzero™. This software has been used to create a variety of sites for scientific collaboration for other communities. This paper describes the features of all HUBzero™ sites, and outlines the costs involved with setting up and maintaining a new hub. |
| sponsoredby | Thanks to the Network for Computational Nanotechnology and IT@P for their support of this work. |
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