Date: Wednesday, 15 May 2019
Time: 12pm–1pm
Where: Room 505, level 5, Axon Building (47), UQ St Lucia
Cost: FREE
No registration required.
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Dr Kevin Jorissen
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Scientific Computing on Amazon Web Services
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Abstract
This talk will get scientists and researchers thinking about how they can benefit from the virtually limitless resources AWS offers them for computing, storage and data analytics.
We will start with the general principles that make the public cloud a good match for today’s research challenges, from shortening the time to prove or disprove a new idea, to collaborating on massive datasets.
Next, we will review examples of current and upcoming research in the cloud across several science domains from astronomy to genomics, demonstrating the benefits of new technologies and of scale.
We’ll cover using technologies such as AWS Batch and AWS Lambda Serverless to create automated pipelines to analyse incoming data; and Amazon SageMaker to democratise machine learning, so that applied scientists who’ve used a few Python scripts for analysis can suddenly take advantage of massive GPU clusters and optimised deep learning frameworks to train highly accurate and publishable models.
We’ll close out with some of the ways AWS is engaging with research science.
About the speaker
Dr Kevin Jorissen is AWS' Research and Technical Computing Lead.
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UQ Graduate Digital Research Fellows Symposium
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
12:30pm–4:30pm
Room 213, Biological Sciences Library, building 94 (UQ St Lucia).
A series of seminars delivered by UQ's inaugural cohort of Graduate Digital Research Fellows. The fellows will present non-technical seminars explaining their explorations into the Digital Humanities as part of their PhD projects.
This is a great opportunity to hear about the Digital Humanities at UQ, and hear from PhD candidates who are embarking on these cross-disciplinary projects.
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Seminar: Scaling Up to Large (Really Large) Systems, Thursday, 23 May. More info
Secure Coding Practices & Automated Assessment Tools Workshop, Friday, 24 May. More info
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Tinker Hybrid Training: Introduction to Digital Humanities and Social Sciences, Wednesday, 12 June. More info
Winter School in Mathematical and Computational Biology, 1–5 July. More info
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