AWS Cloud Services for Education Nina Kunkel, Education Lead AWS - DACH 8Th Higher Education Cloud Day, 27Th August 2020

AWS Cloud Services for Education Nina Kunkel, Education Lead AWS - DACH 8th Higher Education Cloud Day, 27th August 2020

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© 2019, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Tübingen’s Quantitative Biology Center (QBiC) Innovates on AWS to Accelerate Genomics Research Challenges Solution Benefits Quantitative Biology Center, QBiC enables genomics research for Through its choice to standardize • Scale processing from 30 samples University of Tübingen public and private institutions by on NextFlow and nf-core as the to 100,000 samples in one abstracting the heavy lifting associated workflow solution, QBiC was able research project is possible with HPC and Data Analysis. As medical to easily integrate with AWS • Potentially reduced queue times imaging and genomic sequencing Batch and is currently evaluating by 50 percent for genomic data Website: https://qbic.uni- research data grew rapidly, QBiC its potential. First results hint to a analysis tuebingen.de/en/ foresees difficulties to scale quickly and reduced queue time by 50% for • Standardized and automated cost-effectively. Processing data is a all jobs using Amazon EC2 Spot Genomic workflows with bottleneck with on-premises resources Instances, while driving down the ‘NextFlow‘ and nf-core pipelines routinely at 95% of capacity. costs of analysis. on AWS and on-premise infrastructure, alike About QBiC:

Quantitative Biology Center (QBiC) Our automated genomic analysis run times on AWS are comparable with on- Tübingen is a research center located “ premises resources but with no wait. It was astonishing how easily Nextflow and at University Tübingen in Tübingen, Germany. QBiC runs a data nf-core integrate with AWS Batch. With AWS Spot, runtimes for small, medium, management platform and high- and large projects are all similar and at low costs. performance computing (HPC) environment to support genomics Alexander Peltzer, research within the university and at Research & Development Data” Science at Quantitative Biology Center private medical research organizations across Germany. genomics © 2019, Amazon WebWeb Services, Inc.Inc. oror itsits Affiliates.Affiliates. All rights reserved.reserved. Amazon Confidential EPFL Designs Robots through Artificial Evolution

École polytechnique fédérale de Challenges Solution Benefits Lausanne

RoboGen™ is an open-source With promising results, the team • The ability to scale computational educational and research platform for shifted to a web-based needs up in seconds (and down the co-evolution of robot bodies and framework. While it was slow in again) brains. It was developed at the the beginning, the team turned to • Better cost control for the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at AWS for distributed cloud research project through on- Website: https://www.epfl.ch/en/ EPFL led by Professor Dario Floreano, computing. The simulator now demand pricing and better use of The project began as a simple runs on top of AWS. It is an open resources framework with a standalone source tool, so anyone can use • Availability of newest technology application. As RoboGen evolved into a the algorithms. EPFL are using and server types as the project more complex education and research AWS’s autoscaling capabilities, evolved tool, the team ran out of compute using up to 15 instances during power. peak demand. About EPFL:

The École polytechnique fédérale de We ran out of compute power very quickly… We chose AWS for its autoscaling Lausanne (EPFL) is a research institute “ capability. Now, whenever anyone is performing an evolution or multiple and university in Lausanne, Switzerland, specializing in the natural students are using the compute nodes, the AWS Cloud scales up automatically sciences and engineering. and gives us the computation we need in seconds. We are now able to complete projects and research much faster. Without AWS, we couldn’t do this. EPFL is one of two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology and student Anand Baskaran, numbers in Lausanne now totaling Scientific Assistant and” Engineer, EPFL over 10,000. genomics © 2019, Amazon WebWeb Services, Inc.Inc. oror itsits Affiliates.Affiliates. All rights reserved.reserved. Amazon Confidential Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences (THB) builds BBB on AWS

Challenges Solution Benefits Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences (THB) In spring 2020, THB had to close its THB decided to deploy BBB on • Easily deploy new projects in a physical campus due to the coronavirus Amazon Web Services (AWS) Prof. fast and scalable manner pandemic. The university needed a video Preuss spun up an Amazon Elastic • Access to a deep set of cloud conferencing system for teaching and Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) security tools, with more than 200 learning to continue with as little instance and colleagues could security, compliance, and Website: https://www.th- disruption as possible. They discovered start to deliver online classes. BBB governance services and key brandenburg.de/en/home/ BigBlueButton (BBB), an open-source on AWS soon became the features. web-conferencing system designed for standard for online learning • Physical servers would have online learning and endorsed by the across the entire university. The needed immediate investment in European Union. Running BBB on university’s data protection procuring hardware and time to physical servers for more than 2,000 officer was also impressed by the install it. With AWS the server simultaneous users presented challenges level of control the university has could be spun up in minutes. for the university. over its data. About THB:

The Brandenburg University of I was pleasantly surprised that we were able to find a solution for the entire Applied Sciences (Technische Hochschule Brandenburg, THB)— “ university so quickly. AWS and BigBlueButton lets us continue virtual teaching located in Brandenburg an der Havel, and learning while keeping our personal and private data safe.” Germany—is a young and modern university with 2,600 students. It has Prof. Dr.Ing. Thomas Preuss, close links with industry and focuses Brandenburg University” of Applied Sciences on computer science, technology, media, and business studies.genomics © 2019, Amazon WebWeb Services, Inc.Inc. oror itsits Affiliates.Affiliates. All rights reserved.reserved. Amazon Confidential Why are universities adopting cloud computing?

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