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SGX3 Fellowship Journey: From Research to Software Engineering the AI-Driven HPC Resource Prediction and PEARC23 Experiences.
09-10-2023By: Swathi Vallabhajosyula Being a 5th-year Ph.D. student, most of my clock hours are spent during the literature review, curating, creating, and analyzing datasets, understanding fundamentals of different machine learning models, and constructing custom artificially intelligent workflow frameworks for addressing various research problems.…
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Mark Miller: A Pioneer in Science Gateway Development and Phylogenetics
08-17-2023Science gateways have emerged as vital platforms that provide researchers with streamlined access to advanced computational resources, enabling them to carry out complex analyses and simulations that were once constrained by the limitations of personal computers. Mark Miller, a visionary leader and the owner of the science gateway CIPRES (Cyberinfrastructure for Phylogenetic Research), has played a pivotal…
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SGX3 Summer Internship Reports: Jackson Thetford
07-03-2023Each year, our Workforce Development team offers summer internships for students interested in developing their gateway development skills. For the summer of 2023, interns were placed at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). We will be sharing some of our 2023 student interns' experiences in a series of blog posts entitled SGX3…
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Focusing on sustainability and collaboration - Focus Week 2023
07-02-2023By: Claire Stirm Seven teams gathered in sunny La Jolla, CA from May 22-26, 2023 for the first SGX3 Focus Week! As 12 attendees and 5 instructors gathered in the room on the first day, it was a refreshing experience as teams put markers to paper outlining the impact their projects are having on researchers studying linguistics, mother athletes,…
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Marlon Pierce, SGX3 and SGCI Co-PI, Joining NSF as Program Officer
06-28-2023Marlon Pierce, SGX3 and SGCI Co-PI, Joining NSF as Program Officer Marlon Pierce has been a long time advocate and technical supporter of science gateways. Starting before the initiation of SGCI, Marlon was actively involved in the community by providing technical advice for science gateways using XSEDE and other U.S. research computing.…
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SGX3 Summer Internship Reports: Prithul Sarker
06-28-2023Each year, our Workforce Development team offers summer internships for students interested in developing their gateway development skills. For the summer of 2023, interns were placed at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). We will be sharing some of our 2023 student interns' experiences in a series of blog posts entitled SGX3…
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SGX3 Summer Internship Reports: Dhanny Indrakusuma
06-28-2023Each year, our Workforce Development team offers summer internships for students interested in developing their gateway development skills. For the summer of 2023, interns were placed at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). We will be sharing some of our 2023 student interns' experiences in a series of blog posts entitled SGX3…
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SGX3 Summer Internship Reports: Steven Oh
06-28-2023Each year, our Workforce Development team offers summer internships for students interested in developing their gateway development skills. For the summer of 2023, interns were placed at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). We will be sharing some of our 2023 student interns' experiences in a series of blog posts entitled SGX3…
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SGX3 Summer Internship Reports: Swathi Vallabhajosyula
06-22-2023Each year, our Workforce Development team offers summer internships for students interested in developing their gateway development skills. For the summer of 2023, interns were placed at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). We will be sharing some of our 2023 student interns' experiences in a series of blog posts entitled SGX3…
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The 2023 ADMI Symposium was held in Virginia Beach Virginia April 13-16th.
04-24-2023By: Linda Hayden The Association of Computer Science Departments at Minority Institutions (ADMI) symposium is devoted to computing issues relevant to minority students, education, and institutions. This 2023 Symposium was held in person and highlighted undergraduate and graduate research with a particular interest in innovations in…
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SGX3 Blueprint Factories: Constructing the Future
03-15-2023By: Marlon Pierce and Nancy Maron Are scientific research and technological innovations getting less disruptive? Possibly, according to a recent, controversial paper [1], which concurs with previous research [2,3]. Whatever the case, this finding resonates with many scientists [4]. While disruptive research is not necessarily better than…
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The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) Virtual Crash Course for HPC
03-02-2023By: Linda Hayden The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) hosted a virtual crash course for High Performance Computing (HPC) December 13-16, 2022. The course covered the foundational skills needed to learn about HPC (e.g., UNIX, command-line text editors, intro C programming), then introduced key concepts for the parallel…
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“Pitch" styled reporting for NASA ACCESS awards
02-16-2023By: Claire Stirm and Annie Burgess Our sustainability training instructors love the last day of the Focus Week workshop. Teams come in with all of their thoughts compiled into a seven minute “Pitch” presentation. This presentation is a summary of each project’s value, audiences, market opportunities, and long-term goals.…
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Persistent Identifiers: Evaluating Solutions for Your Science Gateway
02-14-2023Why do you need persistent identifiers in the first place? Following the blog post on the background of the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable), we start with referring to guidelines of working groups and GO FAIR offices. The first guideline defined by GO FAIR US of the ‘FAIRification process’ is to enable (meta)data from research products from systems like science gateways to be assigned globally unique and persistent…
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One Science Place and Handle Server Deployment Guidelines
02-14-2023By: Dinuka De Silva and Marlon Pierce Overview The Handle.Net system, developed by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), provides services for creating, managing, and resolving global persistent identifiers for digital objects. A common use case is for a persistent identifier to act as a permanent URL for a digital object that…
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What is FAIR?
02-13-2023By: Sandra Gesing In 2016, the ‘FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship’ were published in Scientific Data [1]. The authors intended to provide guidelines to improve the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse of digital assets. Referred to as the FAIR principles, the publication has created an energetic uptake in the research community from research domains to…
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2022 Hack in the City
12-05-20222022 Hack in the City The HPC in the City: Dallas Hackathon was held November 3rd - 6th, 2022, co-located with the SC22 conference. and went. Of the 72 registrants for the hackathon 46 were representatives of Minority Serving Institutions. Student participants heard mentor pitch hack ideas the evening of November 3rd and chose the…
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Gateways 2022 Travel Support Blog: Shubhavi Arya
12-01-2022Attending Gateways 2022 By: Shubhavi Arya The Gateways 2022 conference was one of the most memorable conferences I have attended during my PhD career which was made possible through a generous travel grant awarded to both me and my co-author. My travel grant covered my flight, registration as well as my accommodation in a pet…
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Gateways 2022 Travel Support Blog: Jacob Goldverg
12-01-2022Popularizing OneDataShare and enabling scientists to move High Amounts of Data over Wide Area Networks By: Jacob Goldverg The Gateways 2022 is a unique conference that attracts a broad audience from backgrounds ranging in but not limited to: NASA's satellite development, a simplified version of bash that is executed through the…
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Gateways 2022 Travel Support Blog: Saatvik Arya
11-30-2022Attending Gateways 2022 By: Saatvik Arya I traveled from Seattle to attend the Gateways 2022 conference. I was there to represent Engine for Malware Technology, a virtual research environment to simplify the development and use of standardized workflows for real-time detection of malware in Internet of Things (IoT) devices. …
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Gateways 2022 Travel Support Blog: Anuj Tiwari
11-29-2022Attending Gateways 2022 - My First In-Person Conference During the Pandemic By: Anuj Tiwari I was very excited about flying out to be present at Gateway 2022 in San Diego for two reasons. Firstly, to escape the increasingly cooling weather of Chicago. Secondly, and possibly more crucial, to ultimately attend an in-person event,…
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Gateways 2022 Wrap Up
10-30-2022By Sandra Gesing, Linda Hayden, and Claire Stirm We were ecstatic to welcome the science gateway community back for an in-person annual Gateways conference! Held in sunny San Diego, attendees listened to scientific talks on science gateway use cases, novel technical developments and visions for the science gateway space. The…
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Gateways 2022 Mentoring Program
10-30-2022By Linda Hayden, SGCI/SGX3 Workforce Development Lead In an effort to nurture the next generation of Science Gateway users and developers, the Conference Mentoring Program pairs students and faculty with science gateway professional staff at the conference. Each student attending Gateways 2022 was assigned a Gateway community mentor…
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FacultyHack@Gateways2022
10-29-2022By Linda Hayden and Claire Stirm The FacultyHack@Gateways2022 involved five teams of Computer Science faculty or one Computer Science and one related discipline area faculty. Faculty adapted High-Performance Computing (HPC) tools for use in their courses. They now have a "ready-to-go" course outline, supporting data, HPC…
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How a University of Missouri Gateway Team Made the Most of SGCI’s Services and Community
09-26-2022Prasad Calyam, associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Missouri, is enthusiastic about the potential of cyberinfrastructure to revolutionize interdisciplinary research in complex fields. As Director of the Center for Cyber Education, Research and Infrastructure (Mizzou CERI), Calyam…
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Recommendations For Improving the Security of a Science Gateway
04-18-2022The SGCI personnel who deliver cybersecurity consultations to the science gateway community through our partnership with Trusted CI have worked with multiple science gateways. From their interactions with these teams, Ishan Abhinit, Shane Filus, and Mark Krenz have developed a document that provides recommendations on improving the security of…
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Building Science Gateways with the Django Globus Portal Framework
04-10-2022By Greg Nawrocki, Globus We often speak of Globus as a “platform for research data management”. What we mean by that is that Globus isn’t just the web browser interface, it’s about being able to use our service integrated into portals, science gateways and applications. Effectively, how can Globus fit into those…
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SGCI Storybook: Connecting People, Creating Solutions, Accelerating Discovery
01-25-2022For over five years, SGCI has worked with the gateways community to improve access to essential resources and services. Our community members have blazed paths to sustainability by participating in our training opportunities, they have gained access to new technologies by receiving consulting services, they have grown their networks by attending…
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Another Cohort Gets a Jumpstart on Sustainability Planning
01-09-2022"Despite the fact that our gateway is yet to be launched, I found my participation in the Jumpstart workshop to be very beneficial and would strongly recommend it to others who are still in the development and design stage. The instructors are very experienced in helping those of us unfamiliar with the business world understand how to define our value to…
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SGCI Client CoMSES.Net Awarded $4.2M NSF Grant
11-19-2021The Network for Computational Modeling in Social and Ecological Sciences, or CoMSES Net, began as a bottom-up, community-driven initiative to support transparency, reusability, reproducibility, and other good practices for computational modeling in the social and ecological sciences. Now, with a new $4.2 million grant from NSF, the gateway will…
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Gateways 2021 Wrap Up
11-09-2021We have missed, immensely, gathering in person for the annual Gateways conferences, and cannot wait to do so again in 2022. In the meantime, there are some noteworthy benefits that have emerged from meeting online again in 2021. So here we go, some silver linings: We were able to offer the conference for free! You could turn your hair…
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Virtual Focus Week Provides Researchers With Tools for Gateway Sustainability
07-22-2021By Nayiri Mullinix Face-to-face gatherings are incredibly valuable for many reasons, and we are very excited to get back to them soon. In the meantime, we’re reflecting on our virtual experiences and finding the silver linings wherever we can. We offered the first virtual Focus Week in December 2020 and saw great participation for the totally free experience that was presented in bite-size chunks over the course of two weeks. Bite-size was key because, let’s be honest, sitting alone…
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WHISPers Gateway’s Look and Feel Redefined After SGCI Usability and Developer Support Consultations
07-14-2021"All our goals were met, and we were impressed by the developer’s wide range of capabilities. It was an added bonus that he was easy to collaborate with because all the work was well-documented and organized.” Dr. Kim Miller Wildlife Disease Specialist, USGS By Nayiri Mullinix At SGCI, we understand the pain points of…
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Atmospheric Researchers Will Benefit from Improvements Made by SGCI Consultants and Intern on LROSE Gateway
06-08-2021“We knew that we could not have accomplished this on our own. Access to SGCI's expertise was critical to the development of the LROSE gateway.” Brenda Javornik Software EngineerNational Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) By Nayiri Mullinix For six years, the Lidar Radar Open Software Environment (LROSE) project has been providing atmospheric researchers using lidars, radars, and…
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Guest Tech Blog: Kubernetes and JupyterHub on Jetstream
03-17-2021By Andrea Zonca, HPC Applications Specialist, San Diego Supercomputer Center Introduction JupyterHub handles authentication and routing for any number of users that have access to an interactive computational environment, the Jupyter Notebook, via their browser. The most high-impact application of JupyterHub in the context of Science Gateways is to deploy it as a companion application for the Science Gateway to enable users to…
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SC20 "HPC in the City" Virtual Hackathon Addressed Issues Local to Atlanta
02-01-2021By Nayiri Mullinix & Je’aime Powell SGCI, along with seven other sponsors, organized the SC20 co-located virtual hackathon on November 5-9, 2020. Named HPC in the City, the hackathon, which ran 96+ hours, was launched by the SC20 Inclusivity Committee with the purpose of engaging the community in the SC host city, Atlanta. The committee had planned to engage with the many universities, local technical colleges, and state and local government agencies. When SC pivoted to a virtual…
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From in-person to online: Successes from the first virtual Focus Week
01-26-2021By: Claire Stirm & Nayiri Mullinix "The SGCI Focus Week was invaluable for discovering approaches to project sustainability. As a result of this sustainability workshop, I came away with a newfound understanding of the value of our project that I can clearly communicate to our target community and stakeholders. The Focus Week experts made me…
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Science Ambassador Blog: Funding to organize and implement a social media strategy
01-14-2021By Dr. Brian Winkel Director, SIMIODE Emeritus Professor, Mathematics, US Military Academy I am most fortunate to be an SGCI Science Ambassador on behalf of our project, SIMIODE. We valued the SGCI stipend to support Anthony Stefan, a second-year mathematics graduate student at the Florida Institute of Technology, in his efforts to organize and implement our social media…
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Geoweaver: From Incubator Project to a Broader Audience Scope
12-03-2020By Claire Stirm No longer focusing on agriculture alone, Dr. Ziheng Sun has expanded Geoweaver in support of many Earth sciences, and he was recognized by NASA for his initiative. Geoweaver is a science gateway designed to manage artificial-intelligence/machine-learning (AI/ML) research in Earth science. Researchers can use Geoweaver to compose and execute full-stack, deep-learning workflows. Geoweaver takes…
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Guest Blog: Why Real-Time Data Matters to the Maritime Industry
12-01-2020Each year, the international maritime shipping industry moves more than four trillion dollars in goods, which comprises 90% of world trade. As a result, there’s a lot of pressure on shipping companies to remain on schedule, protect the cargo ship and crew, and ensure profitability. In this guest blog post written by Ayesha Renyard at Sofar, find out how real-time big data analytics are helping the maritime…
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Congratulations to the Cloudify Gateways 2020 Awardees
11-09-2020By Claire Stirm During the welcome session of the annual Gateways 2020 conference, the Cloudify Gateways 2020 awards were announced. This is the second year when the SGCI, CloudyCluster, and Google Cloud Platform teams have come together to offer time and cloud computational resources to science gateways with a compelling cloud-based project. This year, four teams were awarded: …
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Gateways 2020 - First time attendee's experience, Dr. Leigh Noble
11-09-2020By: Dr. Leigh Noble & Claire Stirm The annual Gateways conference is the perfect venue for gateway creators and enthusiasts to come together, learn from each other, and exchange ideas. This year, more than 221 participants gathered virtually, from October 12–23. With COVID-19 changing the location from Bethesda, Maryland to the comfort of everyone’s own home, the attendees still gained…
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Gateways 2020 Conference - A Virtual Experience with Real Interactions
11-09-2020By Claire Stirm & Katherine Lawrence The annual Gateways conference is the perfect venue for gateway creators and enthusiasts to come together, learn from each other, and exchange ideas. This year, more than 221 participants gathered virtually, from October 12–23. Even with COVID-19 changing the location from Bethesda, Maryland to the comfort of everyone’s own home, the attendees…
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Gateways 2020 Plenary addresses the Challenge of Gateway Interoperability
10-13-2020By: Claire Stirm Gateways 2020 has officially kicked off with the first week featuring interactive and informative tutorials and workshops! We are also looking forward to next week’s main conference track featuring presentations, demos, Learning Labs, and of course, interactive keynotes from Dr. Roger Aines and Amy Aines, authors of Championing Science, and Dr. Thomas Dohmke, sharing behind-the-scenes details of GitHub’s Archive Program! Another plenary session that you won’t want to miss is the “The Challenge of Gateway Interoperability: The SGCI Tech Summit” on Wednesday, October 21, at 1 pm ET/10 am PT. Attendees will have a chance to hear about the Science Gateways…
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Gateways 2020 Preview - Upcoming Keynotes: Championing Science and Github's Archive Program
10-11-2020By: Claire Stirm We are looking forward to the start of Gateways 2020! Starting October 12 and going to October 23, the tutorial and workshop track will take place the first week and the main conference track during the second week. The conference features two interactive keynotes. Dr. Roger Aines and Amy Aines, authors of Championing Science, will share…
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Opening Doors for Students and Faculty: Summer Programs Deliver Educational Gateway Tools Developed by Students
09-17-2020“To make research experiences accessible, you need to get rid of as many barriers as you can, and being remote makes it easier." Dr. Tanya Faltens NCN, Purdue University By Claire Stirm The Network for Computational Nanotechnology Undergraduate Research Experience (NCN URE), based at Purdue University, is a summer program that provides students an opportunity to work on…
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2020 Summer Internship Reports: Anthony Stefan
08-30-2020Each year, our Workforce Development team offers summer internships for students interested in developing their gateway development skills. Participants are placed at one of several SGCI partner sites. We will be sharing some of our 2020 student interns' experiences in a series of blog posts entitled SGCI Summer Internship Reports.…
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2020 Summer Internship Reports: Soumya Purohit
08-30-2020Each year, our Workforce Development team offers summer internships for students interested in developing their gateway development skills. Participants are placed at one of several SGCI partner sites. We will be sharing some of our 2020 student interns' experiences in a series of blog posts entitled SGCI Summer Internship Reports.…
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2020 Summer Internship Reports: Hang Jin
08-30-2020Each year, our Workforce Development team offers summer internships for students interested in developing their gateway development skills. Participants are placed at one of several SGCI partner sites. We will be sharing some of our 2020 student interns' experiences in a series of blog posts entitled SGCI Summer Internship Reports.…
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2020 Summer Internship Reports: Tony Guy
08-30-2020Each year, our Workforce Development team offers summer internships for students interested in developing their gateway development skills. Participants are placed at one of several SGCI partner sites. We will be sharing some of our 2020 student interns' experiences in a series of blog posts entitled SGCI Summer Internship Reports.…
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2020 Summer Internship Reports: William Clark
08-30-2020Each year, our Workforce Development team offers summer internships for students interested in developing their gateway development skills. Participants are placed at one of several SGCI partner sites. We will be sharing some of our 2020 student interns' experiences in a series of blog posts entitled SGCI Summer Internship Reports.…
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2020 Summer Internship Reports: Pablo Calix
08-30-2020Each year, our Workforce Development team offers summer internships for students interested in developing their gateway development skills. Participants are placed at one of several SGCI partner sites. We will be sharing some of our 2020 student interns' experiences in a series of blog posts entitled SGCI Summer Internship Reports.…
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2020 Summer Internship Reports: Matthew Casertano
08-30-2020Each year, our Workforce Development team offers summer internships for students interested in developing their gateway development skills. Participants are placed at one of several SGCI partner sites. We will be sharing some of our 2020 student interns' experiences in a series of blog posts entitled SGCI Summer Internship Reports.…
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What Does Science Gateway Sustainability Look Like?
08-24-2020By: Claire Stirm What makes a successful science gateway last? How do we define “sustainability” for science gateways? You might think that a sustained gateway is funded indefinitely, which would be a very impressive feat. Yet, there are other challenges in maintaining the community around the gateway and continuing to provide value…
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Hack@PEARC20 Participants Solved Real Challenges
08-24-2020“Hack@PEARC20 was an incredible experience!" Lena Coker Washington State University - Vancouver Participant, Hack@PEARC20 By Claire Stirm The HackHPC@PEARC20 took place in July 2020 at the first PEARC virtual conference. Thanks to the event sponsors--Omnibond, TACC, Intel, Google, and SGCI--both the…
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ETAG Gateway Reaches Goals Thanks to Engagement With SGCI
07-19-2020“ETAG aims to make data management doable for those working with animal behavior in this specific data type, whether that’s for research and collaboration by scientists or outreach by institutions such as schools and zoos. Our key goals of creating a user-friendly interface to accept a particular data type were achieved with the help of SGCI…
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SGCI’s Virtual Mini-Course Gives Gateway Projects a ‘Jumpstart’ on Sustainability Planning
07-13-2020“The mini-course helped me step back from my role as a scientist trying to deliver data to the masses, and examine our gateway through a business lens. Who is our real audience? How can we fund this project into the future? How do we promote the value of our endeavor?" Jenny Chipault Wildlife Epidemiology Team/Informatics…
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SGCI Support Paves the Way for the SimCCS Gateway to Tackle Climate Change Mitigation
05-28-2020“We didn’t have a gateway yet, and it was the expertise of SGCI consultants that guided us through this whole thing and quickly got us to version two where we could realize all the capabilities that were in my head at the time." Kevin Ellett Research Geologist Indiana University By Nayiri Mullinix The SimCCS gateway can play a meaningful role in mitigating climate change. The…
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Science Node article "From biochemistry to bioinformatics: A doctoral career transformed by an internship" highlights SGCI intern Yuexi Chen
05-13-2020SGCI intern Yuexi Chen worked on the GenApp gateway during the summer of 2018. This Science Node article highlights how the internship shaped the course of her studies and career goals. You can read more about GenApp's engagements with SGCI in GenApp's User Interface Modernized Thanks to Successful Engagements With SGCI. From biochemistry to bioinformatics A doctoral career transformed by an internship As a first-year Ph.D. student in chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Maryland, Yuexi Chen knew that she wanted to spend the summer of 2018 doing something productive and…
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Guest Blog: The Distant Reader—A Jetstream-Powered Assist for an Age-Old Process
04-29-2020By Harmony Jankowski, Science Highlights Team, UITS Research Technologies, Indiana University Note: Eric Lease Morgan of Distant Reader was a participant in the May 2019 Focus Week and is an SGCI Client who has received Usability consultation. Jetstream is an SGCI Partner. Scholars, students, and researchers in all fields have one activity in common: reading. With the increased prevalence of online publishing through formal and informal channels, the number of books and articles written about any and all topics has grown exponentially. What is a conscientious researcher to do when one just cannot possibly read everything? Enter the Distant Reader gateway. Developed in 2019 at Notre Dame University by Eric Lease Morgan, the Distant Reader supplements the…
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SGCI Helped Grow Data Discovery Studio With Implementation of Technologies and by Offering Guidance in Usability, Security, and Marketing
04-09-2020"Data Discovery Studio's goal is to make it easier for scientists to find and use the data they need. SGCI has helped this platform grow in usability, security, and outreach to users and communities to meet their needs. The platform improvements enable scientists using it to be more effective in accessing, exploring, and doing more with data." Ouida…
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Science Ambassador Blog: Investigation of ALS Neurodegenerative Disease Using Neuroscience Gateway
12-10-2019One of our five Science Ambassadors, Mohamed Mousa, attended the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Meeting in October 2019. Mohamed, who is a Ph.D. candidate and graduate research assistant at Wright State University, presented a poster on his current work with small conductance potassium channels (SK) that play an important role in the pathogenesis of ALS disease. He has been using the Neuroscience Gateway for his research. N…
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Tech Blog: How the Ocean Observatories Initiative Used Apache Kafka to Simultaneously Combine Large Volumes of Historic and Streaming Data
11-11-2019By Choonhan Youn What is Apache Kafka? Apache Kafka is a distributed messaging system, which publishes and subscribes to streams of records, similar to a message queue or enterprise messaging system. It is developed to be a distributed, partitioned, replicated service. Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI)’s data streaming-based science gateway uses this message brokering system. To balance the incoming…
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Science Ambassador Blog: Neuroscience Gateway as a Tool for Big Data Analysis
11-06-2019One of our five Science Ambassadors, James Trevathan, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, attended OptoDBS2019 in June 2019 as well as the Neuroscience Gateways workshop on Large Scale Simulations and Data Processing in October 2019. James presented “Calcium imaging via a miniature microscope for studying deep brain stimulation in a freely moving animal model of disease.” By James Trevathan Thanks to the support of the…
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Focus Week Participants Gain a Fresh Perspective on Their Gateways
10-31-2019By Nayiri Mullinix “We really enjoyed how the Focus Week brings people with extensive industry experience to work with folks in academia -- it’s incredibly helpful to exchange perspectives and discuss creative ways to achieve goals.” SGCI hosted the sixth Gateway Focus Week September 9-13, 2019. Participants came together in Chicago, IL, to work on a sustainability plan…
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Gateways 2019 Conference Provides a Perfect Venue for Gateway Creators & Enthusiasts
10-22-2019By Nayiri Mullinix & Katherine Lawrence The annual Gateways conference is the perfect venue for gateway creators and enthusiasts to come together, learn from each other, and exchange ideas. This year, 127 participants gathered at the Catamaran Resort and Spa in San Diego, CA, from September 23-25. Everything was in place for a productive and fun conference, including extra buzz and activity…
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Tech Blog: Collecting Docker Metrics Using Python and Prometheus
10-02-2019By Julia Looney Check out Julia's webinar: Collecting Docker metrics with Python and Prometheus. What is Prometheus? Prometheus allows you to create and use time-series metrics for monitoring, alerting, and graphing. Features of Prometheus open source uses time-series data metrics are specified with a name and key/value pairs uses a query language, PromQL, to allow you to create more flexible monitoring data collection for the time series data occurs over HTTP contains a graphing dashboard and is also…
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Hack@PEARC19 Participants Solved Real Problems Faced by Gateways
09-16-2019“Hackathons allow theoretical skills to be applied practically. This year, the Hackathon exceeded that by producing production-quality projects that will benefit the science gateway community as a whole” By Nayiri Mullinix Now in its second year, the Hack@PEARC19, which took place in July 2019, attracted sixteen up-and-coming programmers…
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2019 Summer Internship Reports: Michaud Reyna
09-15-2019Each year, our Workforce Development team offers summer internships for students interested in developing their gateway development skills. Eligible participants are placed at one of several SGCI partner sites. We will be sharing some of the experiences of our 2019 student interns in a series of blog posts entitled…
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2019 Summer Internship Reports: Gilbert Curbelo III
09-12-2019Each year, our Workforce Development team offers summer internships for students interested in developing their gateway development skills. Eligible participants are placed at one of several SGCI partner sites. We will be sharing some of the experiences of our 2019 student interns in a series of blog posts entitled…
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2019 Summer Internship Reports: Andrea Dumalagan
09-11-2019Each year, our Workforce Development team offers summer internships for students interested in developing their gateway development skills. Eligible participants are placed at one of several SGCI partner sites. We will be sharing some of the experiences of our 2019 student interns in a series of blog posts entitled…
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2019 Summer Internship Reports: Iakov Vasilyev
09-10-2019Each year, our Workforce Development team offers summer internships for students interested in developing their gateway development skills. Eligible participants are placed at one of several SGCI partner sites. We will be sharing some of the experiences of our 2019 student interns in a series of blog posts entitled…
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Science Ambassador Blog: Gateways as Tools for Democratizing Research—Crowdsourcing with the Zooniverse at DHOxSS 2019
09-09-2019One of our five Science Ambassadors, Samantha Blickhan, Zooniverse Digital Humanities Research Lead, taught a weeklong course called Crowdsourced Research in the Humanities at the Oxford Digital Humanities Summer School in July. Attendees learned how to use the Zooniverse Project Builder, further distributing a methodology that encourages researchers from a multitude of academic disciplines to make use of science gateways. By Dr. Samantha Blickhan Thanks to the generosity of the SGCI Science Ambassadors Program, I was able to attend the 2…
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Tech Blog: How New Django Portal for Apache Airavata Can Be Used by Gateways
09-04-2019By Eroma Abeysinghe & Marcus Christie Explanation of New Django Portal for Apache Airavata The Apache Airavata project provides middleware and APIs needed to build a modern science gateway. In addition to this, the Airavata project has also developed a web user interface to its APIs that serves as a reference implementation of an Airavata client. That web…
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SGCI's 4-Week Coding Institute Exposes Students to Practical Skills and Experiences
08-19-2019By Jeff Wood & Nayiri Mullinix SGCI held a four-week Coding Institute during the summer of 2019. The Coding Institute includes the core skills needed to be productive in the design and maintenance of science gateways. The workshops were presented as short lessons interspersed with practical exercises. All the teaching was done through live…
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Science Ambassador Blog: Promoting Aquavit Science Gateway and Preparing for Implementation of a Water Quality Portal Interface
08-18-2019One of five 2019 SGCI Science Ambassadors, Jack Smith, a research scientist at Marshall University in Huntington, WV, and Cyberinfrastructure Coordinator for West Virginia Science and Research, attended the 11th National Monitoring Conference in Denver, CO, March 25-29, 2019, to promote the Aquavit science gateway. He also spent time with the EPA Water Quality Portal team as he prepares to implement a Water Quality Portal…
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Science Gateways and Scientific Research, Part 2
06-20-2019By Marlon Pierce You can read Science Gateways and Scientific Research, Part 1, here. Author’s Note: This blog post is based on “Towards a Science Gateway Reference Architecture”, which was presented at the International Workshop for Science Gateways (IWSG 2018). Citation: Pierce, M. E., Miller, M. A., Brookes, E. H., Wong, M., Afgan, E., Liu, Y., Gesing, S., Dahan, M., Marru, S.…
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Bootcamp Five Inspires a Shift—This Collaborative Workshop Is Now Called Gateway Focus Week
06-11-2019By Nayiri Mullinix First things first: Science Gateways Bootcamp has a new name! Our week-long intensive workshop is now called Gateway Focus Week. Why the name change? We’re in the third year of offering these popular workshops, which have grown and evolved thanks to the enthusiastic feedback and input we’ve received from…
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Guest Blog: Globus and the path to sustainability
05-08-2019This guest blog post was written by Lee Liming, Globus Senior Technical Writer, and Vas Vasiliadis, Globus Chief Customer Officer. It’s been more than twenty years since the first public release of Globus software. In that time, we’ve tried several routes to sustainability and learned a few things we’ll share in this post. The core mission of Globus—which has…
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ADMI Symposium Included Presentations by SGCI Staff
04-16-2019SGCI Extended Developer Support and Workforce Development staff attended and presented at the Association of Computer and Information Science/Engineering Departments at Minority Institutions (ADMI) symposium devoted to computing issues relevant to minority students, education, and institutions. The Symposium on Computing at Minority Institutions took place April 11-14, 2019, in Memphis, TN. SGCI's Marlon Pierce made a presentation…
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SGCI Consultation Allows CloudLaunch to Benefit Researchers Across a Wide Variety of Fields
04-14-2019By Nayiri Mullinix "We had open-ended plans for converting CloudLaunch from a small web-app into a full-fledged science gateway and the SGCI consultants helped us formalize that plan and implement it. CloudLaunch can now benefit a large number of researchers from a wide range of disciplines looking to conduct research in the cloud." Enis…
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SGCI Intern Who Was Selected to Participate in HBCU@SXSW Gets Job Offers
04-01-2019Thanks to HBCU@SXSW, SGCI Intern Ke'Darius Whitley was one of 250 students from historically black colleges and universities selected to attend SXSW. Whitley reports on this exciting experience below. He let us know that he'll decide on one of the two job offers he received after he graduates in May 2019. You can read Whitley's 2018 Summer Internship Report here. Check here to learn more about our opportunities for students, including summer internships. Applications for summer…
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How SGCI Gave the VC3 Team Solid Footing to Build a Global Collaboration Platform
03-20-2019By Nayiri Mullinix "A key design goal was to make it simple for research communities to glue clusters together without expert help, with clustering middleware of their choosing. Our SGCI engagement gave us web workflow patterns and other UX tools to ease the creation and management of virtual clusters for the collaborations we…
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People of SGCI: Andrew Adams
03-14-2019Andrew Adams Senior Information Security Analyst, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Carnegie Mellon University What is your role within SGCI and what do you do? As part of SGCI’s Incubator services, my role is to provide cybersecurity guidance and advice to science gateways that SGCI engages with. This encompasses anything from…
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“Aha” Moments Abound at ESIP’s Custom Bootcamp [now Gateway Focus Week] and Beyond
03-05-2019Note: We renamed Science Gateways Bootcamp to Gateway Focus Week in June 2019 to reflect the increasingly collaborative nature of the workshop. By Nayiri Mullinix Our partnership with Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP), a community of data and information technology practitioners, began in 2017 when their Executive Director, Erin Robinson, participated…
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SGCI Consultation Gives CitSci a Solid and Sustainable Foundation for Growth
02-24-2019By Nayiri Mullinix “My main goal is to make the CitSci.org platform sustainable and useful for people creating and enacting citizen science initiatives that change the world. By working with SGCI, I was able to make key decisions for the long term sustainability of CitSci.org – decisions that convinced us to deploy our platform on the cloud…
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People of SGCI: Steve Snyder
02-24-2019Steve Snyder Senior Software Engineer, HUBzero Purdue University What is your role within SGCI and what do you do? I’m a software engineer working at Purdue with our own science gateway platform, HUBzero. Additionally, part of my time is spent consulting for other gateways through SGCI. I’ve helped out with API design, database…
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SGCI Client Update: Chem Compute Usage Doubles
02-03-2019By Nayiri Mullinix “(By working with SGCI) I got to learn the proper way to run a website. Previously I had been operating alone and didn’t choose a solution that was scalable.” The Chem Compute science gateway is seeing double! Nearly double the number of jobs submitted, that is, as compared with 2017. It was in…
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People of SGCI: Rick Mouser
01-18-2019Rick Mouser Business Development Manager, HUBzero Purdue University What is your role within SGCI and what do you do? I am one of the instructors for Science Gateways Bootcamp. I provide instructions on how a gateway can create a business development strategy using sales and fundraising fundamentals. How did you come to be a part of SGCI, and why were you intrigued by the opportunity? The first Bootcamp I…
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Science Gateways and Scientific Research, Part 1
01-15-2019By Marlon Pierce You can read Science Gateways and Scientific Research, Part 2, here. Author’s Note: This blog post is based on “Towards a Science Gateway Reference Architecture”, which was presented at the International Workshop for Science Gateways. Citation: Pierce, M. E., Miller, M. A., Brookes, E. H., Wong, M., Afgan, E., Liu, Y., Gesing, S., Dahan, M., Marru, S. & Walker, T. (2018). Towards a Science Gateway Reference Architecture. Paper given at the 10th International…
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People of SGCI: Andrew Magill
12-16-2018Andrew Magill RESA III Python and Django Developer Texas Advanced Computing Center What is your role within SGCI and what do you do? I am fairly new to SGCI, I am a few months into my first engagement providing Extended Developer Support (EDS) to clients at UC San Diego. Together we are building a new science gateway that will engage citizens, students,…
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SGCI Bootcamp [now Gateway Focus Week] Instructors Present Sessions at EarthCube's All Hands Meeting
12-02-2018Note: We renamed Science Gateways Bootcamp to Gateway Focus Week in June 2019 to reflect the increasingly collaborative nature of the workshop. By Nayiri Mullinix "...these sessions were amazing, I am a Science Gateways Bootcamp believer now, and I think that all EarthCube projects should be required to take them, if not the entire SGCI Bootcamp. It won’t feel…
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People of SGCI: Mark Krenz
11-20-2018Mark Krenz Lead Security Analyst Indiana University Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR) What is your role within SGCI and what do you do? As part of the Incubator service area, my primary role within SGCI is to provide cybersecurity guidance and advice to science gateways that SGCI engages with. That role has recently expanded to also…
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Gateways 2018 Conference
11-19-2018By Nayiri Mullinix The most important outcome was that I discovered SGCI is a community of folks honestly interested in working with others to advance computing in general and science gateways in particular.” -Tom Bishop The annual Gateways conference, which gives gateway developers and users across domains a venue for…
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SGCI helped build EcologyPlus with customized areas for career development
11-08-2018SGCI's Extended Developer Support (EDS) consultants worked with Teresa Mourad of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) to build a new gateway called EcologyPlus on the HUBzero platform. EcologyPlus offers students and recent graduates from underrepresented minority groups with year-round mentoring and career resources. After attending the inaugural Science Gateways…
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SGCI Client Update: COSMIC^2 Receives Funding to Grow Gateway
11-04-2018By Nayiri Mullinix “The support we received from SGCI and XSEDE helped us get off the ground and, ultimately, to get funded.” The COSMIC2 science gateway, which offers an easy, web-based platform for structural biologists to determine macromolecular structures using cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has some big news! In an earlier…
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Gateways 2018 Student Blog: Travel Award Recipient Jared McLean
10-21-2018Each year, SGCI offers travel support for the annual Gateways Conference series. We are pleased to be able to offer an opportunity for young professionals, students, and future science gateway developers to attend. This year, we offered travel support to 9 students, 3 educators from Minority-Serving Institutions, and an additional…
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Tech Blog: How SGCI Helped nSides Use OSG and the Agave Platform to Augment Its Drug Side Effects Database
10-17-2018By Choonhan Youn Explanation of the Agave Platform The Agave Platform is an open source, science-as-a-service API platform for powering your digital lab. Agave allows you to bring together your public, private, and shared high-performance computing (HPC), high throughput computing (HTC), Cloud, and Big Data resources under a single, web-friendly REST API. In order to ease the access to HPC…
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People of SGCI: Nate Snodgrass
10-16-2018Nate Snodgrass Program Manager, HUBzero Purdue University What is your role within SGCI and what do you do? I work in the SGCI Incubator where I serve as an instructor covering Budgeting for the bi-annual Science Gateways Bootcamp, help with management of the Incubator portion of the project, and am involved in the planning process for each Bootcamp. Ho…
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Cohort Four Reflects on the Value of Science Gateways Bootcamp [now Gateway Focus Week]
10-10-2018Note: We renamed Science Gateways Bootcamp to Gateway Focus Week in June 2019 to reflect the increasingly collaborative nature of the workshop. By Nayiri Mullinix The fourth Science Gateways Bootcamp convened at the Big Ten Conference Center in Chicago, IL., August 13-17, 2018. Offered twice per year, the Bootcamp has continued to grow in popularity as science gateway developers and operators…
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People of SGCI: Dimuthu Upeksha Wannipurage
09-18-2018Dimuthu Upeksha Wannipurage Programmer Analyst Science Gateways Research Center, Indiana University What is your role within SGCI and what do you do? I work with the Science Gateways Research Center (SGRC) team at Indiana University as a research software engineer, and I'm on the Scientific Software Collaborative team with SGCI. I have over two years…
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Report from SGCI's Summer Coding Institute for Students
09-13-2018By Nayiri Mullinix and Jeff Wood This summer, SGCI offered a four-week Coding Institute. The Institute, which is focused on gateway development for undergraduate students, covers the core skills needed to be productive in the design and maintenance of science gateways. Presented as short tutorials alternated with practical exercises, all…
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Mini Science Gateways Bootcamp [now Gateway Focus Week] in Edinburgh, Scotland: Not at All a "Mini" Experience
09-11-2018Note: Science Gateways Bootcamp was renamed to Gateway Focus Week in June 2019. By Sandra Gesing The Science Gateways Bootcamp, now known as Focus Week, is a well-received five-day long hands-on workshop on sustainability that takes place twice a year in the U.S. The five days is needed to fully discuss and work through the topics as well as for building a community around sustainability for…
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Back 2018 Summer Internship Reports: Nayman Leung
08-30-2018Each year, our Workforce Development team offers summer internships for students interested in developing their gateway development skills. Eligible participants are placed at one of several SGCI partner sites. We will be sharing some of the experiences of our 2018 student interns in a series of blog posts entitled SGCI…
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Back 2018 Summer Internship Reports: Thomas Hilton Johnson III
08-29-2018Each year, our Workforce Development team offers summer internships for students interested in developing their gateway development skills. Eligible participants are placed at one of several SGCI partner sites. We will be sharing some of the experiences of our 2018 student interns in a series of blog posts entitled SGCI…
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2018 Summer Internship Reports: Edsel Norwood
08-28-2018Each year, our Workforce Development team offers summer internships for students interested in developing their gateway development skills. Eligible participants are placed at one of several SGCI partner sites. We will be sharing some of the experiences of our 2018 student interns in a series of blog posts entitled SGCI…
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Back 2018 Summer Internship Reports: Ke'Darius Whitley
08-27-2018Each year, our Workforce Development team offers summer internships for students interested in developing their gateway development skills. Eligible participants are placed at one of several SGCI partner sites. We will be sharing some of the experiences of our 2018 student interns in a series of blog posts entitled SGCI…
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2018 Summer Internship Reports: Yuexi Chen
08-26-2018Each year, our Workforce Development team offers summer internships for students interested in developing their gateway development skills. Eligible participants are placed at one of several SGCI partner sites. We will be sharing some of the experiences of our 2018 student interns in a series of blog posts entitled SGCI…
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People of SGCI: Sudhakar Pamidighantam
08-19-2018Sudhakar Pamidighantam Senior Scientist, Science Gateways Research Center Indiana University What is your role within SGCI and what do you do? I am an EDS consultant and help deploy gateways and collaborate on user interfaces and backend HPC integration. How did you come to be a part of SGCI, and why were you intrigued by the opportunity? I became part of the Science Gateways…
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Back SGCI's Affiliates Program Gives Software & Resource Providers Increased Visibility
08-16-2018SGCI recently launched its Affiliates Program, which gives software and/or resource providers the opportunity to expand their reach by providing assistance to gateway projects. Through this program, individuals and organizations that provide software or other resources agree to provide free support and assistance to gateway projects that want to…
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Report from Hacking and Making at Time-Bounded Events at CHI 2018
08-07-2018By Mona Wong SGCI co-hosted the Hacking and Making at Time-Bounded Events: Current Trends and Next Steps in Research and Event Design Workshop at the CHI 2018 Conference in Montreal, Canada on April 22. The purpose of the one-day workshop was to bring together researchers and event organizers to share and learn from one another on the phenomenon of time-bounded collaborations such as…
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New Gateway Brings Advanced Computing Resources to the University of South Dakota
08-01-2018By Nayiri Mullinix "The USD gateway is focused on lowering the bar for advanced computing and simplifying a researcher’s transition to campus and national HPC systems. The goal of the USD science gateway is to increase researcher productivity in groups unfamiliar with advanced digital resources and to provide an accessible platform for learning…
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Back Tech Blog: Benefits of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
07-31-2018By Josue Balandrano Coronel What are APIs? In software development, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are a key part which enables sharing and extending functionality implemented by other developers. An API can be defined as a public contract between author and user which defines how to use a specific tool. In this definition, the author re…
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People of SGCI: Cody Hammock
07-22-2018Cody Hammock Senior Software Engineer Texas Advanced Computing Center What is your role within SGCI and what do you do? I'm a systems architect and administrator on the team that operates the OpenStack cloud at TACC that hosts the SGCI tenant infrastructure. SGCI offers free hosting services for gateways interested in having a sandbox and testbed area…
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Teaching Science Gateways: A Workforce Development Strategy
06-25-2018By Marlon Pierce and Suresh Marru Overview of the Science Gateways Architecture Course We’ve come to appreciate the challenge of running a successful gateway over the last two decades. It can take a lot of work. You need someone to write software, someone to do integration work with third-party software and services, someone to operate services, someone…
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People of SGCI: Marcus Christie
06-20-2018Marcus Christie Principal Science Gateway Research Consultant Science Gateways Research Center, Indiana University What is your role within SGCI and what do you do? I work in the Extended Developer Support (EDS) team. I have over 15 years of experience developing software applications, with an emphasis on web application development. A good match for me is a…
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Science Gateways Bootcamp [now Gateway Focus Week]: Enthusiastic Praise from Cohort Three
06-18-2018Note: We renamed Science Gateways Bootcamp to Gateway Focus Week in June 2019 to reflect the increasingly collaborative nature of the workshop. By Nayiri Mullinix Each year, SGCI’s Incubator team offers two sessions of the popular Science Gateways Bootcamp. This year, we decided to take the week-long workshop on the road to make it more convenient for…
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People of SGCI: Mona Wong
05-13-2018Mona Wong Software Engineer San Diego Supercomputer Center University of California, San Diego What is your role within SGCI and what do you do? I am a science gateway developer on the Extended Developer Support team. My role is to assist collaborators with the development of their research gateway. How did you come to be a part of SGCI, and why were you intrigued by…
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Tech Blog: Apache Airavata Gateway Installation with Ansible
05-10-2018By Eroma Abeysinghe Explanation of Apache Airavata for Hosting a Gateway Apache Airavata is a middleware framework that enables you to manage, execute, and monitor your application workflows on computing resources such as national supercomputers, campus clusters, and computing clouds. Airavata captures and organizes the metadata associated with these…
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"Creating Science Gateways Success Stories" Booklet
04-22-2018The SGCI recently created a booklet to highlight some of the success stories from the first two years of operation. Read Creating Science Gateways Success Stories to learn more about SGCI and the many ways we're making an impact in the science gateways community.
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People of SGCI: Zach Weidner
04-17-2018Zach Weidner Full Stack Developer, HUBzero Purdue University What is your role within SGCI and what do you do? I work in the Extended Developer Support (EDS) service area and with the Scientific Software Collaborative (SSC) team, as well as lending a hand in any way I can. How did you come to be a part of SGCI, and why were you intrigued by the…
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Tech Blog: Designing Data Service APIs for Science Gateways with GraphQL
04-17-2018By Steven Snyder Explanation of GraphQL GraphQL is a Query Language representing an alternative to REST for data interfaces that is particularly suited to new and evolving systems. As “graph” indicates, and as its provenance at Facebook implies, GraphQL is particularly suited to queries on network data like social graphs. What are the benefits to science gateway…
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SGCI-MolSSI Workshop on Science Gateways at ACS National Meeting
04-09-2018by Sudhakar Pamidighantam We hosted the first SGCI-MolSSI Workshop on Science Gateways for Molecular Scientists at the ACS National Meeting & Expo in New Orleans on March 20, 2018, at the Hilton Riverside right next to the Convention Center. The workshop was attended by 27 on-site participants representing sponsoring institutions, gateways developers, current and potential users, and MolSSI researchers. The talks that were given at this workshop included presentations of gateways that are currently serving the molecular science community as well as some presentations about gateway development technologies and…
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Case Study: Gateway Expertise When You Need It—Growing QUBES by Working with the Science Gateways Community Institute
03-30-2018In this case study presentation, we highlight the work that SGCI completed with the QUBES science gateway and illustrate how our services can support multiple aspects of a project. Specifically, we describe our hands-on consulting services (both software development and usability evaluation), Science Gateways Bootcamp training, inclusion in the Gateway Catalog, the Gateways conference series, and our internship program, and how each element provided different facets of support to the growing QUBES community. Read the "Gateway Expertise When You Need It: Growing QUBES by Working with the Science Gateways Community Institute" case study.
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People of SGCI: Claire Stirm
03-25-2018Claire Stirm Science Gateway Manager, HUBzero Purdue University What is your role within SGCI and what do you do? I am a member of the Incubator team for SGCI. I help plan Science Gateways Bootcamps that occur bi-annually, which includes coordinating all the logistics such as scouting locations, planning meals, and working closely with the instructors…
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Science Gateways Bootcamp Check-In: How are Participants Progressing Toward Their Goals?
03-20-2018By Nayiri Mullinix When participants walk away from the week-long Science Gateways Bootcamp, they do so not only with a bounty of knowledge and resources but also with a sustainability plan and actionable steps that they themselves have outlined for how they’ll implement all that they’ve learned. We regularly check in with…
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Back People of SGCI: Shawn Rice
02-18-2018Shawn Rice Application Programs Manager, HUBzero Purdue University What is your role within SGCI and what do you do? I work in the Extended Developer Support (EDS) area of SGCI and coordinate consultation and development efforts pertaining to the HUBzero platform. I also do development and offer consultation when the client’s needs match my…
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Tech Blog: Using Keycloak to Provide Authentication, Authorization, and Identity Management Services for Your Gateway
02-07-2018By Marcus Christie Explanation of the Airavata tool, Keycloak: Apache Airavata (an SGCI Affiliate, check the Gateway Catalog to learn more) is middleware that provides abstractions for managing and utilizing computational resources, with an emphasis on running high-performance scientific applications. Airavata can thus be used to build a science gateway that provides higher-level user interfaces for users to configure, execute, monitor and analyze…
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People of SGCI: Paul Parsons
01-18-2018Paul Parsons Assistant Professor Purdue University What is your role within SGCI and what do you do? I work in the SGCI incubator where I lead the usability consulting service. As part of my role in the incubator, I run a usability workshop at the bi-annual incubator-led Science Gateways Bootcamp. I also manage usability consulting services that are offered to gateway creators to help them…
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Guest Blog: SGCI and ESIP Discuss Bootcamp and Partnership Possibilities
01-17-2018By Nancy Hoebelheinrich Coordinator and Editor ESIP Data Management Training Clearinghouse In early January, ESIP Federation Winter 2018 meeting members participated in a lively discussion during one of the breakout sessions on what SCGI has to offer for incubator projects intending to move to sustainable production status. In the session, participants first heard an…
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PlantingScience Community Doubles in Size After Consultation With SGCI
12-10-2017By Nayiri Mullinix “The PlantingScience.org online mentoring program was scaling up and we needed to put more control into the hands of our teacher-users without overwhelming them. By working with the SGCI user experience consultants, we were able to design new interfaces that gave teachers the tools to set up their own students’ teams and find…
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People of SGCI: John Gentle
12-10-2017John Gentle Research Engineering Scientist Associate II Texas Advanced Computing Center What is your role within SGCI and what do you do? My primary role within SGCI is as an EDS (Extended Developer Support) consultant in which I assist project teams that are developing web-portals to serve as an interface for utilizing high-performance…
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People of SGCI: Nancy Maron
11-21-2017Nancy Maron Incubator Consultant Founder, BlueSky to BluePrint What is your role within SGCI and what do you do? I joined the team as a consultant to support the Incubator. I’ve helped to develop the week-long, intensive Science Gateways Bootcamp program, and I am one of its instructors. In addition, I offer business consulting services as part of the Incubator. I love working with…
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Gateways 2017 Student Blog: Travel Award Recipient Thomas Johnson
11-19-2017Each year, SGCI offers travel support for the annual Gateways Conference series. We are pleased to be able to offer an opportunity for students and future science gateway developers to attend. This year, we offered travel support to 13 students, 2 educators from Minority-Serving Institutions, and an additional 10 attendees. One of the…
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Gateways 2017 Guest Blog: a Presenter from Australia
11-16-2017By Sarah Richmond Hailing all the way from Queensland Australia, I landed in Detroit and jumped in a taxi towards Ann Arbor for the Gateways 2017 conference. I was there to represent the Australian-born Biodiversity and Climate Change Virtual Laboratory(BCCVL), an initiative of the Nectar Virtual Labs scheme. Nectar Virtual Labs are rich domain-oriented online environments that draw together research data, models, analysis tools and workflows to support collaborative research across institutional and disciplinary boundaries. They are built and led by the Australian research sector and are used…
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SGCI Client Chem Compute Meets Goals
11-16-2017By Nayiri Mullinix “I was stuck using a small server provided by my University but, by working with SGCI, I was able to transition to much better hosting on Jetstream. Now our Chem Compute science gateway can serve many more undergraduate students simultaneously, and classes are already taking advantage of that this Fall. Prior to…
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Gateways 2017 Conference
11-14-2017By Nayiri Mullinix "Attending Gateways 2017 was on the top of my list for this year and the event was even better than I envisioned. It was great to see a welcoming community of like-minded people to learn about interesting projects, share thoughts, and make plans for the future. The organization of the event was one of the best I've ever…
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Report from October 2017 Science Gateways Bootcamp [now Gateway Focus Week]
10-29-2017Note: We renamed Science Gateways Bootcamp to Gateway Focus Week in June 2019 to reflect the increasingly collaborative nature of the workshop. By Nayiri Mullinix The second Science Gateways Bootcamp of 2017 took place October 2-6, 2017 in Indianapolis, IN. Eight teams were selected to attend this intensive, week-long workshop to gain the skills needed for developing,…
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People of SGCI: Juan Martinez
10-25-2017Juan Martinez Java Web Developer Texas Advanced Computing Center What is your role within SGCI and what do you do? My role is within the Scientific Software Collaborative service area of SGCI as a Java Web Developer. I’m part of the Web and Mobile Applications group (WMA) at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). My activities include supporting and developing…
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SGCI Client Cosmic^2 and Its Use of Globus
10-22-2017By Nayiri Mullinix "We knew that the need was there for a cryo-EM gateway, and having the experts at SGCI available made the gateway development process much more efficient since they have the starting technologies to work with and they know how to solve the unique problems facing gateway developers." Update: COSMIC2 receives more funding to grow gateway! The COSMIC2 science gateway offers an easy, web-based platform for structural biologists to determine macromolecular structures using cryo-electron microscopy…
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2017 SGCI Summer Internship Reports: Joel Gonzalez-Santiago
10-19-2017Each year, our Workforce Development team offers summer internships for students interested in developing their gateway development skills. Eligible participants are placed at one of several SGCI partner sites. We will be sharing some of the experiences of our 2017 student interns in a series of blog posts entitled SGCI…
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2017 SGCI Summer Internship Reports: Hagen Hodgkins
10-18-2017Each year, our Workforce Development team offers summer internships for students interested in developing their gateway development skills. Eligible participants are placed at one of several SGCI partner sites. We will be sharing some of the experiences of our 2017 student interns in a series of blog posts entitled SGCI Summer Internship Reports. Featured below is SGCI summer…
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2017 SGCI Summer Internship Reports: Tatyana Matthews
10-15-2017Each year, our Workforce Development team offers summer internships for students interested in developing their gateway development skills. Eligible participants are placed at one of several SGCI partner sites. We will be sharing some of the experiences of our 2017 student interns in a series of blog posts entitled SGCI…
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2017 SGCI Summer Internship Reports: Jacob Harless
10-08-2017Each year, our Workforce Development team offers summer internships for students interested in developing their gateway development skills. Eligible participants are placed at one of several SGCI partner sites. We will be sharing some of the experiences of our 2017 student interns in a series of blog posts entitled SGCI Summer Internship Reports. Featured below is SGCI summer intern Jacob Harless, an undergraduate student…
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People of SGCI: Nayiri Mullinix
09-20-2017Nayiri Mullinix Community Engagement & Exchange Coordinator, SGCI University of Michigan What is your role within SGCI and what do you do? I am the Community Engagement and Exchange (CEE) Coordinator for SGCI. I work closely with SGCI Associate Director and CEE service area lead Katherine Lawrence to promote the services offered by SGCI with an…
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Report from Cyberinfrastructure Workshop, August 14-15, 2017
09-10-2017By Nancy Wilkins-Diehr Nancy and Michael Zentner attended the Cyberinfrastructure Workforce workshop, the fifth in a five part series of Research Coordination Network (RCN) meetings sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The broad topic is Managing Collaborative Research Centers. The first workshops were held at the University of Georgia (“Managing CI Centers” and “CI Executive Session”). The next was held at Case Western in…
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Report from 2017 NSF Cybersecurity Summit for Large Facilities and Cyberinfrastructure, August 15-17, 2017
09-10-2017By Nancy Wilkins-Diehr This is the 10th year of the NSF Cybersecurity Summit for Large Facilities and Cyberinfrastructure since 2004 and my first time at the Summit. CTSC does an extraordinarily good job of organizing these and including the community in the agenda-setting. The room could not hold another registrant, it was completely packed. They had a record attendance of 120 and a waiting list. I had to miss portions of the meeting for other…
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Inspiration for Building On-Campus Teams at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
09-06-2017By Sandra Gesing Building on-campus teams is a challenging task even if you are not in an academic landscape slowly recovering from drastic budget cuts. In Spain, the whole country is still slowly recovering from the recession 10 years ago, and over 40% of young adults remain unemployed. But on-campus teams seem a possibility in Madrid, where I was inspired by my enthusiastic collaborators Jesus Carretero&…
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People of SGCI: Ann Zimmerman
08-14-2017Ann Zimmerman Ann Zimmerman Consulting What is your role within SGCI and what do you do? I have two roles within SGCI. I spend most of my time serving as the independent evaluator for SGCI. In this capacity, I work with SGCI leadership and staff to design and implement systematic processes to collect and analyze data to help understand where things are…
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PEARC17 Report from SGCI Staff and Students
08-08-2017By Nayiri Mullinix PEARC17, which took place July 9–13, 2017 in New Orleans, was the first event transitioning from the XSEDE conference to the broader Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) conference. Several SGCI staff members were in attendance, and SGCI was a proud sponsor to several student participants. SGCI’s Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, who is on both the program…