Justin Riley, of OEIT’s Star team, has recently updated and improved the Star Molsim suite of computational tools and completed a migration of the tools to the NanoHUB collaborative computing environment. Funded by NSF, NanoHUB is a secure, stable, robust computing environment created expressly for visualization tools in high performance computing.
In addition to migrating the Molsim suite to NanoHUB’s superior server environment, Riley has also updated the Molsim user interface with enhanced features such as tabbed menus, boundary settings for limited data entry points, and progress monitoring so that the duration of long processing jobs is approximated for the user.
MIT’s partnership with NanoHUB is expected to grow. With Mr Riley as the MIT-NanoHUB lead, the intention is to engage other MIT faculty who may have tools on local servers (both for research and teaching) and to assist with migrating their tools to NanoHUB. Riley is also working student UROPs in Prof Buehler's SIMMS project in order to help migrate tools developped in Bueller's lab to the NanoHub Environment.
Headquartered at Purdue University, NanoHUB enlists the efforts of over 650 contributors including such universities such as UC Berkely, Northwestern, U Texas El Paso and IU-Champagne-Urbana. Serving over 100,000 users annually, and publishing over 2,000 resources, NanoHUB is already an important asset for research in nanoscience and technology.
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