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Project: HUBzero Consortium

Project name: HUBzero Consortium

Primary UITS contact: William Barnett

Last update: May 22, 2009

Description: The HUBzero Consortium is a multi-institutional collaboration to develop and deploy virtual organization research web portals based on the HUB technologies developed at Purdue University. You can visit the HUBzero web site at:

http://hubzero.org/

Currently, IU and Purdue are the member institutions. HUBs represent a Web 2.0 approach to research collaboration, education, and research program implementation, as well as access to national supercomputing and other IT resources. It is notably deployed as Purdue's NanoHUB and IU School of Medicine's Indiana CTSI HUB.

Outcome:

  • Development of a distributable source code
  • Development of new HUBs at IU for other research communities
  • Development of new HUB components and services that will be contributed back to the HUBzero consortium
  • Development of consortium governance and strategic plans

Milestones and status:

  • Initial development of Indiana CTSI HUB Completed September 2007
  • HUBzero Consortium founded by Purdue and IU Completed February 2009
  • IU pioneers Federated Identity management for Indiana CTSI HUB Completed March 2009
  • Initial HUBzero workshops at IU Completed April 2009
  • Establish HUB development sandbox environment at IU; scheduled for fall 2009
  • Establish HUBzero executive committee and plan first meeting; scheduled for September 2009
  • Roll out next cohort of research HUBs at IU; scheduled for spring 2010

Comment process:

Benefits:

  • Provide research communities with innovative tools for multi-institutional collaboration
  • Position IU competitively to lead national virtual research organizations
  • Provide a ready environment to develop the next generation of web-based research tools for collaborative science

Client impact:

  • More rapid access to research resources
  • Ability to collaborate more effectively across institutions
  • More effective and easier access to computational resources
  • Access to Web 2.0 tools such as tagging, social networking, and other enablers

Project team:

  • William Barnett
  • Anurag Shankar
  • Rich Knepper
  • Alan Walsh
  • Mike McLennan
  • Steve Snyder

Governance:

  • Craig Stewart, AVP, Research Technologies
  • John Campbell, AVP, Purdue University

MOU between IU and Purdue in place.