HUBzero is a powerful, open source software platform for creating dynamic web sites that support scientific research and educational activities (hubzero.org). Used by communities ranging from nanotechnology, earthquake engineering, earth sciences, data curation, and healthcare, it is a proven framework for building a science gateway, and a key part of many organizations’ cyberinfrastructure.
The HUBzero platform provides an application framework for developing and deploying interactive computational tools. It has modules to aid in data sharing and publication as well as a complete user management system and robust group management system to facilitate collaboration across the entire site. The HUBzero Application also offers a comprehensive project management module.
HUBzero can serve as a complete cyberinfrastructure solution for an organization, managing tens of thousands of users, terabytes of data, and can be a onestop gateway to numerous, preconfigured grid computing resources. Its highly integrated services support collaborative research, data and results publication, and the platform can archive research and data for long term access and analysis.
Today, HUBzero is available as an cloud appliance (AMI) on Amazon Web Services’ Marketplace, so it is easier than ever to deploy and maintain a hub for your organization.
This tutorial will provide an overview of this integrated cyberinfrastructure, describe a selected set of of common usage patterns for HUBzero Hubs, and example Hubs of campus CI and science domains. The second portion of the tutorial will provide examples and handson exercises on how to use Amazon Web Services to deploy your own instance of the HUBzero platform and how to configure your AWS HUBzero instance to connect to XSEDE resources, building a web platform to support collaboration, data sharing, and computation at your own institution.
Jetstream is the first of its kind production cloud resource intended to support science and engineering research. As part of XSEDE, the goal is to aid researchers across the United States that need modest amounts of interactive computing power. Part of the goal in implementing Jetstream is to increase the disciplinary diversity of the XD ecosystem as well as to reach non-traditional researchers that may have HPC needs but have not had adequate access or have faced other barriers to HPC usage. In our session, we would spend the first thirty minutes discussing the architecture and use of Jetstream followed by a short question and answer session, and then spend the remainder of the time showing Jetstream in use as well as allowing attendees to get on and try the system.
Intended Audience Level: All (especially for researchers, Champions, and any other interested users) Prerequisites: Laptops, XSEDE Portal accounts, ssh keys
Monday July 18, 2016 1:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
WindsorInterContinental Miami
As performance and functionality requirements of interdisciplinary computing applications rise, industry demand for new graduates familiar with accelerated computing with GPUs grows. In the future, many mass-market applications will be what are considered "supercomputing applications" as per today's standards. This hands-on tutorial introduces a comprehensive set of academic labs and university teaching material for use in introductory and advanced parallel programming courses. The teaching materials start with the basics and focus on programming GPUs, and include advanced topics such as optimization, advanced architectural enhancements, and integration of a variety of programming languages.
INTENDED AUDIENCE LEVEL: Intermediate PRE-REQUISITES: Laptop to participate in hands-on aspect
Understanding the value of campus-based cyberinfrastructure (CI) to the institutions that invest in such CI is intrinsically difficult. It is often challenging to demonstrate the relative contribution of CI and associated expertise to any new discovery, and there is often little indication of how important campus-based CI was in reviews of grant proposals that were funded. The NSF funded Value Analytics (VA) module for Open XDMoD will help address this challenge by extending Open XDMoD with grant funding and publication metrics. In this BoF we will outline the current state of Open XDMoD-VA and show first results of our work. We invite members of the community to join a discussion about how the new metrics can be used at different institutions and we invite feedback on the proposed features of Open XDMoD-VA.
