On the TeraGrid, what is the Network Workbench?
Note: After ten years of service to the national science and engineering community, the TeraGrid project has ended. It is succeeded by a new National Science Foundation (NSF) program, the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). You should move any data stored on TeraGrid systems to an alternate storage resource. If you have leftover service units on your TeraGrid allocation, or if your research requires further use of high performance computational, visualization, storage, and network resources, consider applying for an allocation on one or more XSEDE digital services.
On the TeraGrid, the Network WorkBench (NWB) is a large-scale network analysis, modeling, and visualization toolkit for biomedical, social science, and physics research.
The NWB is intended to provide a one-stop online portal for researchers, educators, and practitioners interested in the study of biomedical, social and behavioral science, physics, and other networks. It provides online access to major network datasets for analysis with the most effective algorithms available.
The NWB allows you to generate, run, and validate network models to advance your understanding of the structure and dynamics of particular networks, and provides advanced visualization tools for interactively exploring and understanding specific networks and their interaction with other types of networks. For more, visit the NWB web site.
For more on TeraGrid data collections, see the Data Collections table in the TeraGrid User Portal.
This document was developed with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. 0503697 to the University of Chicago and subcontracted to Indiana University. Additional support was provided by IU through its participation in the TeraGrid, which is supported by the NSF under Grants No. 0833618, SCI451237, SCI535258, and SCI504075. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.
Last modified on September 07, 2011.
