Welcome to Computational Science in the Cloud

Please log in to the WiFi (see handout), and make sure you have the following required software for your operating system:

Mac / Linux:

  'Terminal' application
  Web browser (Firefox/Chrome)

Windows:

  'PuTTY' application
  'WinSCP application
  Web browser (Firefox/Chrome)

You should each have a page with training account login information.

Provide attendees the basic skills needed to:

Use cloud infrastructure-as-a-service for launching virtual servers
Automate cloud deployments using devops tools such as Ansible
Build a progressively more complex reproducible computational environment using progressively more automation
Write Python scripts within Jupyter notebooks for performing reproducible data analysis
Utilize cloud APIs such as Agave for accessing and storing results