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Transforming Education in the Cloud
Mark Rowlands Solutions Architect EMEA Public Sector
How our Customers are using the Cloud to
Transform Education.
• Research.
• Campus IT
• Education.
Why are researchers using AWS today?
Reducing the time to Science. – Create HPC cluster for Research in minutes.
– Simple creation process using AWS API’s, Marketplace, or CF templates.
– Access to virtually unlimited compute and storage capacity on demand.
– Use Traditional HPC schedulers and cluster managers
– Community Projects.
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The AWS MarketPlace
AWS.amazon.com/marketplace
Dozens of scientific
applications.
Almost all major
research-focused
operating systems
• University of Liège is a Belgian multi-
disciplinary research lab studying the brain’s
function and structure
• Needed a solution that would quickly and
reliably conduct image processing for
Parkinson’s research
• Found the NITRC computational environment
on AWS Marketplace, reducing time required
to process neuroimaging data by 85%
Using AWS Marketplace to Find Key Software, University of Liège
Accelerates Parkinson’s Disease Research
Reducing the time to Science.– Create HPC cluster for Research in minutes.
– Simple creation process using AWS API’s, AWS GUI/CLI Marketplace, or CF templates.
– Access to virtually unlimited compute and storage capacity on demand.
– Use Traditional HPC schedulers and cluster managers
– Community Projects.
Try our HPC AWS
CloudFormation-based demo
For more info
aws.amazon.com/hpc/resources
#cfncluster
10 minutes
Reducing the time to Science.– Create HPC cluster for Research in minutes.
– Simple creation process using AWS API’s, Marketplace, or CF templates.
– Access to virtually unlimited compute and storage capacity on demand.
– Use Traditional HPC schedulers and cluster managers
– Community Projects.
“Amazon Builds World’s
Fastest Nonexistent
Supercomputer”
- Wired Magizine
Jun 2014 Top
500 list
484.2 TFlop/s
26,496 cores in
a cluster of
EC2 C3
instances
Cluster compute instances
Intel® Xeon® processors
10 Gigabit Ethernet –
c4.8xlarge
36 vCPUs
2.9 GHz Intel Xeon
E5-2666 v3 Haswell
60GB RAM
Performance for tightly-coupled workloads
Network placement groups
Cluster instances deployed in a Placement Group
enjoy low latency, full bisection 10 Gbps bandwidth
• Partnering with Cycle Computing and
Amazon Web Services , Novartis built
a platform using 10,600 Spot
Instances (approximately 87,000
compute cores) in just under two
hours.
• Researchers were able to conduct 39
years of computational chemistry in 9
hours for a cost of $4,232. Out of the
10 million compounds screened, three
were successfully identified.
AWS & Cycle Computing Helps Novartis accelerate the virtual
screening of 10 million compounds against a common cancer
target in less than a week
Spot Instances are your friends!
Reducing the time to Science.– Create HPC cluster for Research in minutes.
– Simple creation process using AWS API’s, Marketplace, or CF templates.
– Access to virtually unlimited compute and storage capacity on demand.
– Use Traditional HPC schedulers and cluster managers
– Community Projects.
Why are Researchers using AWS ? • Agility.
– Quickly deploy multiple Clusters running at the same time and match the architectures to the jobs.
– Use Autoscaling to automatically re-size clusters based on demand and policy.
• Cost.
– Cluster Compute or Cluster GPU servers on-demand without large capital investments
– Use spot with Autoscaling for jobs where time is not a primary concern.
How Campus IT is using AWS today
Campus IT use cases– Development and Test.
– University and Departmental Websites.
– Student Information System Software.
– Learning /Course Management Systems.
– Massive Open Online Courses MOOCs.
– Student Lab Environments.
– Storage and Data Collaboration.
– Back and Archival
– Disaster Recovery
Campus IT use cases
– Agility. – Global Cloud Infrastructure.
– Quickly innovate , experiment and iterate.
– Deploy new applications quickly & instantly Scale Up & Down.
Oxford University Press : MyMaths scales to 9000 schools.
We are a small team of two
programmers and we don't actually
have a dedicated SysAdmin. I can
safely say that Amazon Web Services
has saved months of effort building
and automating infrastructure, AWS
makes my life a lot easier keeping the
stack running
Simon Engledew,
Senior Engineer
Oxford University Press
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“ • MyMaths is used in 9000 schools around the globe
and in 85% of UK Secondary schools.
• In 2014 MyMaths migrated from a traditional privately
hosted platform to AWS.
• 4.5 million unique student accounts.
• Average weekday load +7million page views
equivalent to 40 million requests.
• Scales quickly to handle peaks
• Improvements in availability and response times.
Campus IT use cases
– Low Cost.– Pay as you go with no-upfront fees or long term commitments
– Efficiencies of Scale allow us to pass the cost saving on to customers.
– 50 price reduction since 2006.
How Educators are using AWS today
AWS Educate
AWS Educate is Amazon’s global initiative to provide students, educators, and
educational institutions with the resources needed to greatly accelerate Cloud
learning and to help prepare millions of students for the Cloud-enabled
workforce of tomorrow. To accomplish this, AWS Educate provides four pillars
of support for the educational community— grants of AWS credits, training,
content, and collaboration.
Four Pillars of AWS Educate
How Educators are using AWS today
Labs and training on
cloud topics and AWS
products
Open source course
content by leading
professors and AWS
Grants for free
usage of AWS
services
Communities that
share best practices
virtually and in person
We Invite You to Join AWS EducateAccelerate Cloud Learning with Grants-based Access to AWS Credits, Cloud
Training, Course Content and Collaboration Tools
Not a student or educator? Help extend AWS grants to more students by inviting your network to participate (#awseducate).
Learn more at: www.awseducate.com