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.

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CloudFormation-based demo

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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