nanoHUB.org: Cyberinfrastructure for Nanotechnology Research

and Education

Robert J. MoonUS Forest Service

Michael McLennanNetwork for Computational Nanotechnology

Purdue University

2008 Intn'l. Conf. on Nanotechnology for the Forest Products,June 25-27, 2008, St. Louis, MO

Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN)

What is nanoHUB?Online simulation… …and more!

Demo

Demo >>

Over 85 tools online!80 more in the pipeline

Maxwell’sDaemon

Physical Machine

Virtual Machine

System Architecture

ContentDatabase

Rendering Farm

nanoHUB cluster

Violin

nanowire jobnanowire jobnanowire job101110110101010110011001

nanoVIS

Web-enabling Tools

Web DeveloperVendor Scientist

Rappture Toolkit

Scientist

• Created by NCN in Nov 2004• Create standard desktop apps• Works with your favorite

programming language• Open Source• Online at http://rappture.org

Rappture

=Simulation

Code

Who’s using nanoHUB?3.5 million hits last month

62,546 users last 12 months271,818 simulation jobs last 12 months51 of the Top 50 Engineering Schools

14% of all .edu domains

A A global following

50% in US

50% from 172 countries

Strong growth

Added seminars, tutorials, courses, etc.

Interactive tools

Online simulation… …and more!

In the past 10 months:

26 tools / 3,327 simulations• 47 simulations: bandstructure lab• 240 simulations: FETtoy• 2,855 simulations: nanowire• 8,242 nanowire CPU hours

• “and more” content134 items, 52 hours

• 96 support tickets69 entered manually, 27 filed automatically by application

Saumitra MehrotraUniv. of Cincinnati

IEEE Workshop on Microelectronics and Electron Devices (WMED), April 20 2007

A New Way of Publishing

Support one another• Questions & Answers• Ratings and Feedback

Upload your own• Presentations• Tools

Google Scholarfinds 288 citations to nanoHUB

Case in point

Example 1

Example 2

Easy to Start

General Framework

portals

http://hubzero.org

New Hubs Online Now

IndianaCTSI.org – Anantha Shekhar, IUSchool of Medicine, Connie Weaver at Purdueaccelerating clinical and translational research in healthcareonline since 10/1/2007

thermalHUB.org – Tim Fisher, ME at Purdueheat transferonline since 12/6/2007

pharmaHUB.org – Rex Reklaitis, CE at Purduepharmaceutical product development and manufacturingonline since 12/11/2007

GlobalHUB.org – Dan Hirleman, ME at Purdueglobal engineering educationonline since 12/17/2007

nanohub.org – Mark Lundstrum, ECE at Purduethe granddaddy of all hubs focused on nanotechnologyonline since 2002

How do I set up my own Hub?

Hardware $6,000Data backups $7,500

11 weeks staff time (setup) $24,2005 weeks staff time (maintenance) $11,000

First year $37,700Each additional year $11,000

Plus indirect costs ~$75,000 for first 2 years

Hosting Service offered by theHub Technology Group in theRosen Center for Advanced Computing,Purdue University

Dell 1950 server750GB storage

16GB RAM

“Starter” Hub:200 simultaneous tool sessionsThousands of active browsers500 users with 1GB storage

Questions?

Contact the HUB0 Team:Michael McLennanSenior Research ScientistPurdue Universitymmclennan@purdue.edu

Writing a proposal?Ask for our whitepaper on

The Hub Concept

hubzero.org

nanohub.org