Owen, as director of ETS, presents about Berkeley's experiments with cloud-based workstations at the instructional lab and the Student Computing @Cal contexts. Motivation, pilot, some details on the classes and next steps. Owen shares details on this initial foray with Amazon Workstation and the results of the POC.
Maryana, phD, is a Postdoc Researcher at UCSF and Data Scientist Fellow at Cal BCHSI/BIDS. At UCSF Grinberg Lab, Maryana investigates and creates computational tools to assist researchers in studying human brain and dementia, especially Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Such tools incorporate a combination of machine learning techniques with visualization and computer vision.
Jason is the Architect/Service Manager for the Analytics Environments on Demand (AEoD) program ( http://research-it.berkeley.edu/services/analytics-environments-demand ). He discusses the history, drivers and strategic roadmap for ÆoD, including its evolution and consideration of a move to the public cloud as the program scales. Jason also talks with Maryana to use her workstation example as a case study in how to assess the cost-benefit and feasibility of running it on a cloud platform such as GCP, Azure or AWS.