[Announce] DesignSafe Newsletter, September 2016

Fri Sep 9 09:54:55 CDT 2016

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September 2016

About DesignSafe<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/about/>   |   Contact<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/contact/>

Welcome to DesignSafe

PI/Project Director Dr. Ellen Rathje

Welcome to the DesignSafe cyberinfrastructure for natural hazards research. DesignSafe provides a comprehensive environment for experimental, theoretical, and computational research in natural hazards engineering, providing a place for you to steward data from creation through archive, and also the workspace in which to analyze, visualize, and integrate data in the cloud. Our vision is that DesignSafe will be an integral component of your research, providing you access to cloud-based tools that support your work throughout your research project—starting today!

We encourage you to register for a DesignSafe account at https://www.designsafe-ci.org/register to start exploring this rich environment for natural hazards engineering research. Our first training webinar will be September 30, 2016 and you can sign up for this webinar at www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/training/093016<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/training/093016>.

[Ellen Rathje]

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Research Workbench

The DesignSafe Research Workbench<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/rw> provides access to data, computational simulation applications, and data analysis and visualization tools for use in your research.

The Data Depot<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/data> is the DesignSafe data repository and provides access to a private My Data space, as well as a Public Data space. Easily upload files, share files with colleagues, and work on your data in the cloud using tools in the Discovery Workspace—all within a private, secure space. The Public Data space includes the NEES Public Projects, and you can re-use the public data by copying it into your My Data directory for further analysis in the Discovery Workspace.

The Discovery Workspace<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/rw/workspace> includes access to computational simulation codes, as well as data analysis and visualization codes.

·         Computational Simulation – OpenFOAM, ADCIRC, and OpenSEES are currently available. Future applications include ABAQUS, LS-DYNA, Fluent, ADCIRC+SWAN, and Strata.

·         Data Analysis and Visualization – MATLAB, Jupyter with Python and R, and Paraview. Our MATLAB license allows for academic use by all confirmed academic DesignSafe registered account holders.

We welcome your feedback on current capabilities and suggestions for new features and applications. Drop us a note at help at designsafe-ci.org<mailto:help at designsafe-ci.org> or www.designsafe-ci.org/help<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/help>.

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User Support & Training

DesignSafe provides several user support<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/rw/support> mechanisms including a ticket system, online documentation and videos, extended collaborative support services (ECSS<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/rw/support/ecss/>), and training webinars that we will begin hosting in September. Webinars scheduled for this fall:

Introduction to DesignSafe
09/30/2016, 1pm to 2pm Eastern Time

This webinar will include a complete walkthrough of all the features of DesignSafe from creating an account, logging in, exploring public data, learning to launch applications, sharing data, and exploring Jupyter Notebooks. Register for the webinar at www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/training/093016<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/training/093016>.

DesignSafe: Jupyter, Python, and the Scientific Workflow
10/26/2016, 2pm to 4pm Eastern Time

This webinar will be focused on using DesignSafe to build a Jupyter Notebook in Python. We will explore some existing notebooks, copy sample data into DesignSafe, load the sample data into Python and our Jupyter Notebook, and learn various graphing techniques to explore the data using the Matplotlib module.

DesignSafe: Data Analysis and Plotting using Jupyter and R
11/09/2016, 2pm to 4pm Eastern Time

This webinar is designed as an introduction to R and the Jupyter environment. We will start with some sample data from DesignSafe and then using R, learn more about the data through some data analysis and simple queries. Finally, we will use different plotting techniques that R offers to visualize the data.

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High School Students Create Disaster-Response Rescue Robots

CODE @ TACC<https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/education/stem-programs/code-at-tacc> is a hands-on outreach program that provides the opportunity to explore coding, scientific computing and the impact of engineering to high school students with limited access to Computer Science programs. This year's summer camp focused on robotics and featured a culminating project in which students created disaster response "rescue" robots that navigated obstacles to search for a heat source that represented a survivor.

This summer, 75% of program participants came from underrepresented minority backgrounds and 60% of the students were female. Most of the students came with little or no prior experience in coding, electronics or robotics. By the end of the program, students gained increased confidence in their ability to tackle programming and robotics problems and developed a greater understanding of the effects of computation and engineering on their daily lives.

CODE @ TACC's open source curriculum and web tools can be found at code.tacc.utexas.edu<http://code.tacc.utexas.edu/>.

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