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August 24, 2007

Scientists Create Web 2.0 Network with nanoHUB

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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 21 -- Teenagers may not have heard about it, but there's a Web 2.0 site that's a hit with scientists and engineers. nanoHUB.org, a so-called science gateway for nano-science and nanotechnology housed at Purdue University, is taking the tools of Web 2.0 and applying them, along with a few tricks of its own, to further nano-scholarly pursuits.

The result is a Web site that is a required bookmark for people who get excited about algorithms, carbon nanotubes, nanoelectronics and quantum dots -- the current hot topics on the site.

Soon, other science disciplines, such as pharmacy and medical research, will be launched using the same technology.

Gerhard Klimeck, a professor of electrical and computing engineering and lead of the nanoHUB project, says the site gives scientists and students access to resources that they would otherwise have to learn to use.

"I'm a computer scientist, so you can give me a UNIX account and a password, and I'm good to go," Klimeck says. "But others would take weeks to learn how to use these tools. In nanoHUB, if you know the science you can begin to use the tools immediately. nanoHUB puts scientific tools into the hands of people who wouldn't normally touch them with a 10-foot pole."

Use of nanoHUB has increased fivefold over the past two years, and there are currently more than 24,000 users. That's small compared to the number of Facebook or Linkedin users, but it still represents a significant slice of the nanotechnology community.

Peter Osterberg, an associate professor of engineering at the University of Portland, lists nanoHUB on his Web site as "The best darned nanotech Web site on Earth."

"Yes, I am very enthusiastic about nanoHUB.org," Osterberg says. "My students thoroughly enjoy the nanoelectronics course material along with the online simulations. I use it almost daily since I first learned about it."

The nanoHUB is a project of the National Science Foundation-funded Network for Computational Nanotechnology, a consortium of research universities, government agencies and corporate research labs.

Ian Foster, the University of Chicago's Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science, director of the Computation Institute at Argonne National Laboratory and the person sometimes labeled the father of grid computing, says nanoHUB is one of the underappreciated successes of the United States' cyberinfrastructure.

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