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Hands-on Training in Cloud Computing for Biomedical Researchers
January 17-19, 2017
Where?
National Institutes of Health
9000 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Background
Cloud offers computers with hundreds of cores and terabytes of memory, on a hourly basis, for a mere couple of dollars and on-demand, for anyone who can use a computer and internet. This democratizes the high performance computing that everybody can use.
Hands-on Skills/Tools Taught
- Cloud platform: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Cloud platform: Google Cloud Platform
- Cloud platform: Azure - Microsoft Cloud Platform
- Computing: AWS Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)
- Computing: Secure Shell, Secure File Transfer (SSH/SFTP)
- Computing: AWS Identity and Access Management(IAM)
- Computing: AWS GPU, CPU, Cluster
- Standards: GovCloud
- Pricing: On-demand, spot, reserved
- Storage: AWS Simple Storage Service (S3)
- Storage: AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS)
- Storage: AWS Volumens, Snapshots, Amazon Machine Images
- BigData: Hadoop, MapReduce, DynamoDB
- Monitoring: CloudWatch
Highlights
- Participants will be provided with step-by-step walk through instructions to setup, configure, secure, monitor and access computing resources rented in public cloud infrastructures.
- Linux based cloud image with comprehensive collection of bioinformatics software freely provided to participants
- Training provided by active NIH researchers
- Cookbook style bound manual for all exercises
- Direct, after training support through exclusive forum membership
- Continuing Educational Credits
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Information and Registration