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Webinar: HUBzero Platform for Scientific Collaboration: Overview of the architecture, features, and sustainability
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
HUBzero Platform for Scientific Collaboration: Overview of the architecture, features, and sustainability
Presented by Nate Snodgrass, Program Manager, HUBzero®
Part two of a series of webinars providing an introduction to a variety of gateway platforms that can be used for building new gateways. View part one, "Using Tapis," in our webinar archive.
HUBzero® is an open source software platform for building powerful websites that host analytical tools, publish data, share resources, collaborate, and build communities in a single web-based ecosystem. Initially created by researchers in the NSF-sponsored Network for Computational Nanotechnology to support nanoHUB.org, the HUBzero® platform now supports science gateways from a variety of disciplines built from the HUBzero® platform with a collective of over 2 million visitors a year. In this webinar, the HUBzero® team will review the HUBzero® architecture and middleware with examples of different use-cases.
Answers to questions asked during the webinar
Feel free to contact info@hubzero.org with questions.
Q: Are you looking at TAPIS (Agave) and/or Abaco for remote HPC services?
A: We have talked to folks at TAPIS and Airavata and are having continuing conversations about the possibilities.
Q: How does the HUBzero platform handle "static" gateway web pages? Can non-developers add/edit without having to redeploy the stack? Or do static pages need to go elsewhere?
A: Static pages are housed in a Hub, and administrators of the Hub can sign-in and edit pages via an editor. The access point is via a back-end login to manage these pages. For group pages, static pages available in the group space can be edited from the group by managers or users who have assigned roles to manage those pages.
Special Edition Webinar: Gateway Focus Week—Helping Software and Gateway Projects Get to the Next Level
February 26, 2020
Gateway Focus Week—Helping Software and Gateway Projects Get to the Next Level
Presented by Nancy Maron, Gateway Focus Week Lead Instructor
Looking to build a sustainability plan for your gateway? Planning to write your next funding proposal? Join us for a special edition SGCI webinar, as one of Focus Week's lead instructors, Nancy Maron, shares what is taught during the five-day intensive workshop, previously known as “Science Gateways Bootcamp.” This is a great opportunity to learn more about the Focus Week curriculum and to ask any questions you might have about the workshop.
In 2020 we will be offering the program two times. The application for both sessions is open now! The fist session will be June 1-5 at Columbia University in New York, NY. The second session will be Nov. 30-Dec. 4 at the San Diego Supercomputer Center in La Jolla, CA.
Focus Week is subsidized by the National Science Foundation. This allows you to attend what would otherwise be a $2,500 per team event at no cost other than travel, hotel, and a few meals. Most lunches and dinners are provided as part of the networking and cohort building activities.
Past webinars about Gateway Focus Week:
Short videos with testimonials from Gateway Focus Week Participants
Webinar: Lessons Learned from SGCI’s Usability Consulting
February 12, 2020
Lessons Learned from SGCI’s Usability Consulting
Presented by Paul Parsons, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Computer Graphics Technology, Purdue University, SGCI Usability Consultant, Instructor at Gateway Focus Week
This webinar will provide an overview of lessons learned from usability consulting engagements with more than 15 science gateways over the past three years. Common challenges, usability mistakes, and potential solutions will be identified and discussed. Examples of how specific science gateways have improved their usability will be presented. Attendees will learn a set of best practices that can be used to enhance the usability of their own science gateways.
Resources for doing web usability testing:
http://sensible.com (the books are good too)
https://www.nngroup.com/topic/
Resources for accessibility with guidelines:
https://uxdesign.cc/designing-
https://uxplanet.org/a-primer-
Webinar: Using Tapis—APIs for Portable, Reproducible High Performance Computing in the Cloud
January 8, 2020
Using Tapis: APIs for Portable, Reproducible High Performance Computing in the Cloud
Presented by Julia Looney, Software Engineer, Cloud & Interactive Computing, and Richard Cardone, Research Engineering/Scientist Associate, Web & Cloud Services, Texas Advanced Computing Center
Part one of a series of webinars providing an introduction to a variety of gateway platforms that can be used for building new gateways. Part two on HUBzero is also in our webinar archive.
This webinar considers the challenges of running computationally intensive and high throughput applications in a reproducible, easy-to-use manner. To reach the widest audience, web-based applications tailored to specific domains provide gateways for different user communities. To avoid duplication of effort, there's a clear need for a middleware layer that mediates between those web applications and backend systems, such as supercomputers, cloud-based clusters, mass storage systems, and databases. Tapis fills this middleware need with a set of authentication, authorization, data transfer, job management, and function execution services that can span multiple data centers and manage batch, interactive, and streaming jobs. This webinar provides an overview of the recently announced, NSF-funded, Tapis project.
Helpful links:
Webinar: How to Support Gateways via Community Building—Join the Gateway Ambassadors
December 11, 2019
How to Support Gateways via Community Building: Join the Gateway Ambassadors
Presented by
- Sandra Gesing, Associate Research Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Computational Scientist, Center for Research Computing,
University of Notre Dame - Gwen Jacobs, Director of Cyberinfrastructure at University of Hawaii System, Co-Director of UH's Data Science Institute
- Julian Pistorius, Engineer, Research Computing and founder of ResBaz, University of Arizona
- Annelie Rugg, Director & Humanities CIO, UCLA
Successful gateways require a diverse set of skills--from software development to sustainability planning to research-domain knowledge. Unfortunately, many researchers and educators are not aware that gateway specialists and mature frameworks are available to help with creating a gateway. To solve this problem, the Gateway Ambassadors Program is building a community of community-builders to spread awareness.
The program's goal is to support Gateway Ambassadors who facilitate gateways by reaching out to their on-campus community, their distributed community, or their networks in general. You can join the program to be a community builder or join simply to stay informed and benefit from our collection of support materials.
This webinar will share some background about this new program and review some of the resources and support materials available through the program. For further inspiration, three panelists will share their experiences with creating unique research computing communities on their campuses.
Webinar Slides (Gesing)
Wedinar Slides (Pistorius)
Webinar Slides (Rugg)