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Grid Appliance: a First-time User's Tutorial
Online Presentations | 08 Jan 2007 | Contributor(s):: David Wolinsky
This video shows step-by-step instructions on how to use the nanoHUB virtual machine Grid Appliance: from starting it up to running Rappture applications, accessing your nanoHUB files through WebDAV, and submitting jobs for remote execution using Condor.
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Computing Research Institute Seminars
Series | 04 Jan 2007
CRI sponsors a regular seminar series that features local, national and international speakers who are recognized in their fields. CRI seminars cover topics in computational science, computational life science, computer systems technology, and nano-computation.
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nanoHUB Grid Appliance
Downloads | 21 Dec 2006 | Contributor(s):: Renato Figueiredo
The Grid appliance allows nanoHUB users to run a development "virtual workspace" in their own desktop. The workspace has a Linux-based virtual machine with Rappture, WebDAV and Condor pre-installed and pre-configured, encapsulating conveniently all the software needed to run these applications,...
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recursive algorithm for NEGF in Matlab
Downloads | 13 Nov 2006 | Contributor(s):: Dmitri Nikonov, Siyu Koswatta
This zip-archive contains two Matlab functions for the recursive solution of the partial matrix inversion and partial 3-matrix multiplication used in the non-equilibrium Green’s function (NEGF) method.recuresealg3d.m- works for 3-diagonal matricesrecuresealgblock3d.m- works for 3-block-diagonal...
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Software Carpentry: Essential Software Skills for Research Scientists
Online Presentations | 19 Sep 2006 | Contributor(s):: Greg V Wilson
Many scientists and engineers spend much of their lives writing, debugging, and maintaining software, but only a handful have ever been taught how to do this effectively: after a couple of introductory courses, they are left to rediscover (or reinvent) the rest of programming on their own. As a...
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Conversion of Movie Files to Flash SWFs for Use in Breeze Presentations
Online Presentations | 17 Aug 2006 | Contributor(s):: Rick DeSutter, Joseph M. Cychosz
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Conversion of Animated GIFs to Flash SWFs for Use in Breeze Presentations
Online Presentations | 17 Aug 2006 | Contributor(s):: Rick DeSutter, Joseph M. Cychosz
This guided tutorial explains the process of how to convertan animated GIF into a Flash SWF which can then be inserted into a Adobe Macromedia Breeze presentation. The tutorial uses Adobe Macromedia Flash MX to perform the conversion process.
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Insertion of Flash SWFs into Breeze Presentations
Online Presentations | 17 Aug 2006 | Contributor(s):: Rick DeSutter, Joseph M. Cychosz
This guided tutorial explains the process for inserting movie files as Flash SWFs into your Adobe Macromedia Breeze presentation. Guided tutorials are available which explain the process of how to create Flash SWFs from movie files such as (.mov, .avi, .wmv, etc.) or fromanimated GIFs.
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Microphone Selection and Comparison: Hear the Difference
Online Presentations | 08 Aug 2006 | Contributor(s):: Joseph M. Cychosz
Selecting a microphone can be a difficult task.For presentations, the quality is very much dependent upon the audio clarity and quality of the naration. For meetings, quality can be somewhat less. This presentation gives an audio comparison of the various options listed with our Microphone...
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Autonomic Adaptation of Virtual Distributed Environments in a Multi-Domain Infrastructure
Online Presentations | 11 Jul 2006 | Contributor(s):: Ryan Riley, Dongyan Xu
By federating resources from multiple domains, a shared infrastructure provides aggregated computation resources to a large number of users. With rapid advances in virtualization technologies, we propose the concept of virtual distributed environments as a new sharing paradigm for a multi-domain...
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How to Breezify Your Presentation and Publish it on the nanoHUB
Online Presentations | 09 Jul 2006 | Contributor(s):: Joseph M. Cychosz
This presentation gives a detailed overview of the process of creating an online presentation for the nanoHUB. It describes how to use Adobe-Macromedia's Breeze presentation tool in conjuction with Microsoft Powerpoint to create a narriated presentation, and how to upload it to the nanoHUB.
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Giving Talks and Posters That People Would Actually Like to See
Online Presentations | 28 Jun 2006 | Contributor(s):: Jerry M. Woodall
Other than getting a college degree, being able to communicate technical results to non experts (and even experts) in a simple and easily understandable way iscritical to a future successful career path.To this end I will discuss the elements of how to prepare both good power pointand poster...
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MATLAB DOs and DON'Ts
Online Presentations | 14 May 2006 | Contributor(s):: Dmitri Nikonov
Matlab is widely used for simulations but is believed to be unsuitable for complex projects and to produce slow-running software tools. The presentation argues that blind copying of methods typical of C and Fortran is responsible for such inefficiencies; the presentation teaches avoidance of...
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Purdue Discovery Park Cyber Center Lecture Series
Series | 12 May 2006
The Cyber Center is creating a human infrastructure for collaboration and research for projects engaging cyberinfrastructure at Purdue. The goal of the Cyber Center (CC) is to create a center of national preeminence in computational methods for discovery and learning. Cyberinfrastructure (CI) is...
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NCSA: Powering Cyber-research in the 21st Century
Online Presentations | 09 May 2006 | Contributor(s):: Thom H. Dunning
Since its creation by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the state of Illinois in 1986, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has been a leader in the development and deployment of new computing and software...
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Workspace
Tools | 21 Apr 2006
Development workspace
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Real-time Technology Assessment
Online Presentations | 11 Apr 2006 | Contributor(s):: David Guston
Real-time technology assessment (RTTA) is a social technology that relies on fundamental understandings of the social, moral, political, and economic dynamics of knowledge-based innovation that have developed over the past three decades. These understandings reveal the complex, value-laden...
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Middleware Support for Virtual Distributed Environments in a Shared Distributed Infrastructure
Online Presentations | 11 Apr 2006 | Contributor(s):: Dongyan Xu
The job and service-oriented paradigm of the Grid enables a wide spectrum of applications to share the massive computational power across the Internet. In this talk, I will present a complementary paradigm of virtual distributed environments to accommodate arbitrary parallel/distributed...
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Introduction to Condor
Online Presentations | 06 Apr 2006 | Contributor(s):: Alain Roy
In this talk, Alain Roy introduces Condor and the Condor Project at a very high-level. Condor's matchmaking technologies are discussed, as well as Condor's grid capablities.
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Using Condor
Online Presentations | 21 Mar 2006 | Contributor(s):: Alain Roy
In this talk, Alain Roy describes details of how to use Condor to run jobs on your local batch system. It is presumed that you have already installed Condor and wish to learn the basics of submitting jobs.