AWS Immersion Day – October 29 – Cloud Computing with AWS

OneIT invites you to attend Immersion Day focusing on AWS cloud solutions for the research community. Join us for this Immersion Day and learn about HPC, containers, and Data Analytics with emphasis on AI and Deep Learning from AWS experts in HPC, genomics, big data and healthcare. Participate in hands on training sessions on cutting-edge data analytics techniques and learn about how to optimize your workflow to use spot instances and maximize your ROI using cloud. Registration for Immersion Day is free and lunch is provided by AWS. Use the RSVP link below to register.

Date: October 29, 2018 — 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: Bill Moore Student Success Center, Press Room B
Registration: RSVP – Registration is FREE – Lunch provided by AWS
Hosted by OneIT and Presented by AWS

Program Highlights

  • 8:30 – 9:00 Welcome and Introductions
  • 9:00 – 10:00 AWS Fundamentals Recap
  • 10:00 – 11:00 High Performance Computing (HPC)
  • 11:00 – 11:15 Break
  • 11:15 – 12:15 Research Computing with Containers
  • 12:15 – 1:30 Lunch and Hands on Computing Lab
  • 1:30 – 2:30 Big Data and Analytics
  • 2:30 – 2:45 Break
  • 2:45 – 3:45 AI and Deep Learning
  • 3:45 – 4:45 Hands on ML Lab
  • 4:45 – 5:00 Wrap up and Questions

Important Notes:

This is a hands-on workshop, so please bring a laptop and come prepared with AWS access — if you don’t already have it, please sign up for a free AWS account at https://aws.amazon.com/

This workshop is open to researchers beyond the IT community — if you know researchers interested in the topics being presented, please feel free to forward the invitation to them.