ESC 2012 05 21

Participants: Chris Lynnes David Fulker Jeff Whirter Don Murray Anne Wilson Emily Law Curt Tilmes Hook Hau Erin Robinson Angela Murillo

Notes

Find a tool for testing collaboration capabilities in hackathon

- Look through a few frameworks - Ramada & HubZero were the two tools we looked today

Ramadda

ramadda.org
Presenters:

Jeff McWhirter: RAMADDA’s author and UNACVO contractor Don Murray: RAMADDA user and a scientist at NOAA (live demo) Dave Fulker: organizer, no agenda, thought it would inform the discussion for the hackathon

Highlights from Presentation:

Installation:

- Can build it from source or a standalone version - Sits on top of a database

Ramada is a framework

- 30 or 40 plug-ins

Functions

- Files, folders, access permissions, user specific control, can be ip address based - Search: simple text, spatial, temporal, faceted metadata and interface included as API - Ingest, harvests metadata - Mix of traditional collaboratory combined with data and data repository - Can remote search other RAMADDA servers

HubZero

http://hubzero.org/tour/hosting
Platform for scientific collaboration, Purdue University
Targeting education
Various hubs:

- nanoHUB.org (original site) - simulate: originally designed for simulation, share and publish - tool sharing - nees.org (earthquake engineering simulation hub) - vhub.org (volcanology hub): courses, tools, datasets,

Probably a good amount of work to get a tool into a form that’s useful, however there are dozens of tools
Suggest to try to get own image in hubzero and attempt to search one of own tools
Integration of tools especially remotely seems interesting

Hackathon

draw comparisons between the two tools

- tools with a grid & extensibility features

Suggestions

Tier 1: Hackathon centered around Ramada

- Type of tool that even regular users will be able to sit down and use - User using Ramada for publish, analyze, republish, connecting

Tier 2: Software Creation

- Try to generate a plug-in or two for Ramada - Ramadda API - Write a search client

Tier 3: Hubzero

- Integrate a tool into Hubzero

Would have to decide how many of these items we can do based on who comes to the workshop

Questions/Comments

Where would we put Ramada

- A number of options, could run it off someone’s computer or everyone could install on their laptops, might be best to also have a centralized server that everyone could upload their work to. - Two other clusters already using one of the hubs, we could have an account set up through Erin - Possibility for federation in Ramada

Actions:

Write up a more detailed description of how we’re going to run the hackathon (Chris will take lead)
Will leave placeholders for Jeff, Don, and Hook to help fill in information