The HUBzero™ Platform for Scientific Collaboration Michael McLennan, Purdue University William Barnett, Indiana University Jill Gemmill, Clemson University
Open Source Platform Feb 2007: 1 hub Feb 2008: 5 hubs Feb 2009: 8 hubs 2002 2007 hubzero.org Feb 2007: 1 hub Feb 2008: 5 hubs Feb 2009: 8 hubs Today: 30 hubs Each hub has its own funding stream Outside institutions: EPA, NYSTAR, Rice
What is a Hub? Example: nanoHUB.org Demo: MOV YouTube
nanoHUB.org Usage Metrics 153,704 users worldwide As much traffic as www.purdue.edu Users at all Top 50 US Engr Schools 19% of all .edu domains 116 classes at 97 institutions in 2009 8,800 users ran 348,000 simulations
Educational Use Is Growing 116 classes at 97 institutions in 2009 UC Berkeley is not alone In calendar 2009, there were 116 classes at 97 institutions that used nanoHUB as part of the class. Here are 3 classes at Arizona State University that have used nanoHUB consistently in class throughout the years. nanoHUB.org Educational Usage 5
More than 500 citations to resources Scaling the High-Performance Double-Gate SOI MOSFET down to 32 nm Technology Node with SiO/sub2/-based Gate Stacks Device Physicist Enrico Sangiorgi University of Bologna, Italy Analysis of Scaling Strategies for Sub-30 nm Double-Gate SOI N-MOSFETs Ultra-thin fully-depleted SOI MOSFETs: Special charge properties and coupling effects Experimentalist Akiko Ohata IMEP Minatec, France Electrical characteristics related to silicon film thickness in advanced FD SOI–MOSFETs
Projects: Earthquake Engineering Hub NEES: $105M NSF award 14 institutions Warehouse for data from earthquake engineering experiments 33 tools
Projects: Cancer Care Engineering Hub
Projects: Pharmaceutical Engineering Hub $1.9M NSF CDI award Rex Reklaitis (PI) Simulates manufacturing and drug efficacy on virtual patient populations 14 tools