The Indiana University Advanced IT Core will be offering a free one-day workshop on the HUBZero Rappture toolkit on August 21. The workshop will be held on the IUPUI campus, with a satellite site on the IU Bloomington Campus.

 HUBZero is a software platform developed by Purdue University to create scientific hubs, or domain-specific web sites. It is currently being used to host the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) hub at indianactsi.org. The HubZero platform contains a powerful simulation and modeling tool of value to life science researchers. This tool is currently being used by a number of successful hubs including nanoHUB.org, thermalHUB.org and pharmaHUB.org.

 Why use HUBZero Rappture Toolkit?

Using this tool, simulation codes, as well as any desktop tool using Linux/X11, can be deployed within hours. By using the Rappture Toolkit within Hubzero, researchers can create a sophisticated graphical interface for tools that are lacking one.  For example, for researchers who use an old C code (or any other language), that runs under Linux, the code requires some input parameters, runs for a few minutes or hours, and generates text files as output. Using the Rappture Toolkit, a researcher can within hours create a graphical interface for the code that can be accessed from within a web browser. Users of this interface might enter input values, press a “go” button, and visualize outputs as a line graph, contour plot, 3D isosurface or molecules, and more. The tool can be run again and again to explore a large parameter space.

 Workshop Details

The one-day, hands-on workshop will teach the following:

·         How to create scientific tools using the Rappture toolkit.

·         How to deploy the tools on a site powered by HUBZero.

When: August 21, 2009  9:00 am-5:00 pm

Where: IUPUI ICTC Building, Room 407 with satellite location on the IUB campus via polycom in the    Wrubel Computing Center, Room 110.

Instructor: Michael McLennan, HUBZero team leader, Purdue University

Prerequisites/Requirements:  (a) A laptop with a modern web browser (Firefox, IE8, Safari) and Java, and (b) Familiarity with programming in MATLAB, C or Fortran.

Space is limited, so please register as soon as possible at: http://hubzero.org/workshops/tooldev0809