January 10, 2018

Building and developing science gateways with Google Cloud Platform

Presented by Karan Bhatia, Ph.D., Scientific Computing Specialist at Google, and Alicia Salmeron, Program Manager at Google

Join us for an introduction to Google Cloud Platform, highlighting services and tools that enable multi-institution collaboration, scalable system development, and advanced analytics solutions. Dr. Bhatia and Alicia will provide a broad overview of...

December 13, 2017

National Data Service (NDS) Labs Workbench: A Scalable Platform for Research Data Access, Education, and Training

Presented by Craig Willis, Technical Coordinator at NDS and Senior Research Programmer at National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The National Data Service (NDS) consortium is developing the Labs Workbench platform, a scalable, web-based system intended to support turn-key...

November 8, 2017

Making your gateway easy and pleasant to use: An introduction to usability and user-centered design

Presented by Paul Parsons, Assistant Professor in Computer Graphics Technology at Purdue University

October 11, 2017

BOINC: Volunteer Computing for Science Gateways

Presented by David Anderson, Research Scientist, Space Sciences Laboratory, at the University of California, Berkeley and Steven Clark, Purdue and nanoHUB

BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) is a distributed computing infrastructure based on a centralized server that coordinates volunteer computer resources. The volunteered resources can come from a variety of types of...

September 13, 2017
Gateway Showcase featuring

I-TASSER
Presented by Chengxin Zhang, Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan

and

Chem Compute
Presented by Mark Perri, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Sonoma State University

August 9, 2017

Interactive Best Practices: Job Management & Scheduling

Featuring presentations by:
Todd Tannenbaum, HTCondor Project
Mark Miller, CIPRES
Sudhakar Pamidighantam, SEAgrid

Do you wonder what is the best way to manage and schedule computational jobs? How do experts approach this task? This month’s webinar invites people from a variety of resources to share how they approach job management and scheduling. The resources represented...

July 20, 2017

Jupyter as a Gateway for Scientific Collaboration and Education
Presented by Carol Willing, Cal Poly SLO and Jupyter Steering Council

Project Jupyter, evolved from the IPython environment, provides a platform for interactive computing that is widely used today in research, education, journalism and industry. The core premise of the Jupyter architecture is to design tools around the experience of interactive computing, building an environment, protocol,...

June 14, 2017

Gateway Showcase featuring VectorBase and CitSci.org

VectorBase: A bioinformatics resource for invertebrate vectors and other organisms related with human diseases
Presented by Gloria I. Giraldo-Calderón, PhD, VectorBase Scientific Liaison/Outreach Manager

CitSci.org: A platform for engaging citizen scientists through individualized websites
Presented by Greg Newman, Director CitSci.org & Research Scientist, Natural Resource...

May 10, 2017

Data and Software Carpentry: Using Training to Build a Worldwide Research Community
Presented by Tracy Teal, co-founder and the Executive Director of Data Carpentry, and Adjunct Assistant Professor with BEACON, Michigan State University

Although petabytes of data are now available, most scientific disciplines are failing to translate this sea of data into scientific advances. The missing step between data collection and research progress is a lack of...

April 12, 2017

Gateway Showcase featuring

Ensayo Project's SimEOC: A Web-Based Virtual Emergency Operations Center Simulator for Training and Research
Presented by Greg Madey, University of Notre Dame

and

Spatial Portal for Analysis of Climatic Effects on Species (SPACES)
Presented by Dilkushi de Alwis Pitts, University of Cambridge