Over the last two years, HMS Research Computing has been working to define their cloud computing architecture and service offering. Join James Weatherell as he dives into the HMS Research Computing cloud strategy. This presentation aims to highlight key challenges the HMS Research Computing team faced around cloud adoption, along with a look at the cloud architecture and service offerings HMS Research Computing provides their researchers today.

In the next era of digitization, organizations are looking for innovation at speed and scale. This means global participation of innovators at all levels in the digital play, where they can bring their ideas, experiment, fail fast, and innovate. This session will cover platform and automation for data democratization and data science-driven innovation in healthcare, collaboration, and productionization through MLOps and DevOps, a key enabler in this innovation journey.

Cloud computing has evolved rapidly over the last twenty years, but common myths, misconceptions, and misinformation continue to influence technology decisions. Understanding modern cloud security, industry trends, and the evolving threat landscape will help dispel these common myths and misconceptions about how trustworthy cloud computing is today. Cloud computing is no longer just about scalability and innovation, it is a key security strategy to address modern threats.

We argue, contrary to the prevailing business mantra, that data science is not just an AI/ML magic trick but a more complicated story. In this presentation we emphasise technical cornerstones of this complex story. Essential activities of robust Data Science involve data preparation, management and engineering, model engineering statistics and machine learning, deployment, monitoring and retraining, and data chain of custody. 

The Internet2 Cloud Connect service provides dedicated, secure, and dynamic connections over its recently upgraded 400Gbps national network to four geographically diverse connection points with the major cloud providers. Utilize direct control to provision and manage cloud connections more quickly, simply, and seamlessly with dedicated network connections and extend your data center with software-enabled self-service capabilities to AWS Direct Connect, GCP Partner Interconnect, Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute, and Oracle FastConnect.

With data sets growing at an exponential rate, storing, and analyzing mountains of data requires a modern approach for faster insights. Learn how you can start your research in the cloud or enable sophisticated hybrid workflows to lower costs and accelerate time to discovery for any workload, even ones that you thought couldn’t be run in the cloud.

Learn how a global team of analysts, architects, and SMEs leveraged the cloud, PEGA, and Agile to develop an Integrated Digital Platform and Mobile App to engage participants enrolled in our clinical trials. Our tMate platform supports real-time monitoring, information sharing, communications, and integrates third-party services allowing clinical sites and patients to engage in ways not previously available and only possible in the cloud.

PrecisionFDA is a secure, cloud-based, high-performance platform implemented by the FDA for collaboration in the areas of biological, clinical and chemical informatics in order to advance precision medicine. It has expanded to assist the broader community of data scientists for analysis of clinical data and to host data-driven competitions that push the limits of tools and algorithms for large-scale data processing. PrecisionFDA has hosted 31 challenges and app-a-thons on topics including AI/ML development to identify COVID-19 risk factors and predict brain cancer patient outcomes and bioinformatics tool development and benchmarking for genetic variant calling and detection of microbial pathogens. The latest application of this platform provides analysis of chemical data sets, as well as benchmarking computational approaches to cheminformatics, drug discovery, and toxicology.

Genomics communities are increasingly relying on cloud services for their computations. However, integrating various workflow components with cloud services can be complex. This talk presents a new name-based ecosystem based on Named Data Networking (NDN) that simplifies workflow integration through the use of content names at the network layer.

Even the most secure systems can fall victim to attack or disaster, and when security fails, a complete recovery plan is essential to get your organization back on its feet. Join us to learn about building a robust disaster recovery plan for physical devices, servers, SaaS, and more.

Deploying compute intensive workloads on the cloud can be challenging, especially when trying to unify workflows for various cloud providers. Each platform has their own tools for compute, storage, and security which require specific knowledge and skills to build frameworks around. In this session learn how Rescale provides a unified platform for high performance computing built for a multi-cloud environment, as well as how to leverage these tools to accelerate your simulations.