| Description: |
In a 2008 National Academies study on Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME),
the importance of an ICME cyberinfrastructure was discussed in some detail. Such a
cyberinfrastructure is composed of elements including collaborative Web sites, repositories
of various types of data, computational modeling tools, and collaboration software. This
workshop will first provide a brief description of “materials cyberinfrastructure” and the
importance of such an infrastructure to the materials community (particularly as it relates
to ICME). This overview will be followed by four live demonstrations of some different elements
of cyberinfrastructure, including: (1) a thermodynamics and phase diagram computational tool,
(2) a collaborative 3D materials database platform, (3) a web-based resource for nanoscience
and technology computational tools and collaborations, and (4) a consortium-based, collaborative
modeling and simulation code platform. |