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This talk describes our experiences from hosting scientific research application in the Microsoft Cloud. Covers an overview of Microsoft Azure capabilities, examples of big data analysis for science, data collections, science gateways and science virtual machine libraries.
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Every research field is now a data science field
Last
few decades
Thousand
years ago
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Simulation of
complex phenomena
Newton’s laws,
Maxwell’s equations…
Description of natural
phenomena
Unify theory, experiment and
simulation with large
multidisciplinary Data
Using data exploration and
data mining
(from instruments, sensors,
humans…)
Distributed Communities
7
Melbourne
Sydney
IT PAC
applicationbuilding
blocks
Web Portal
UserBrowser
Task Queue2
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Executable / Data(Windows Azure Storage)
Compute Nodes
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5
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• Many Examples
• The Challenge: sustainability
• Manage locality• Keep the hot data local on cloud disk
• Manage the working set over time
• The rest is archival
Data
Acquisition &
modelling
Collaboration
and
visualisation
Analysis &
data mining
Dissemination
& sharing
Archiving and
preserving
• A core library for science in the cloud.
• Built on community tools• Ipython Notebook, Python, NumPy,
SciPy, Scikit-Learn, biopython
• Standard community tools
• Deploy as VM library
• Deploy data collections.• Genomic libraries, medical image
libraries, geophysics, astronomy, etc.
• Build community resources
• The Genetic Causes of Disease
(David Heckerman)
• Wellcome Trust for a GWAS for a large
population
• Looking for causes for seven common
diseases (bipolar, r. arthritis, coronary,
hypertension, ….)
• Confounding is a problem. Needed a
new algorithm.
• Ran on Azure cloud using 35,000 cores
in 3 weeks.
Inputs (training data)
Labels
Hidden layers
Input dataDetected featuresMona Lisa
The Windows Azure for Research program:
·Free access to Windows Azure cloud computing and storage
(submit proposals for Windows Azure Research Awards)
· Windows Azure for Research training classes (20 classes
worldwide. )
· Support and technical resources
azure4research.com.
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