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© 2015, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Images Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell
October 2015
SPOT309
Inspiring Innovation in the Cloud@ NASA/JPL and Beyond
Khawaja ShamsNoSQL Engineering, AWS
Tom Soderstrom IT CTO, JPL
Rob Witoff Director, Coinbase
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1936 Suicide Squad and the first rocket test x
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1943 JPL officially established
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We were in the IAAS business long before Amazon
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The Deep Space Network
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Goldstone, USA Madrid, Spain Canberra, Australia
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Amazon SWF
Decider
Data Processing Tasks
File Transfer Tasks
Decision Tasks
Data Processing Workers
EC2 EC2 EC2 EC2 S3
JPL Data Center
Decider
File Transfer Workers
Data Processing
Workers
Polyphony
AWS
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Public Outreach
http://bit.ly/marsCaseStudy
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Large Image Tiling
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Deep Zoom Images: http://bit.ly/marsDeepZoom
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http://json.jpl.nasa.gov
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Live Demo: http://bit.ly/marsDemo
Step by Step tutorial: http://bit.ly/marsTutorial
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App: Mars Images
@DrMarkPowell
http://bit.ly/marsApp
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Pioneer IV
Mariner IV
Mariner 69
Mariner 10
Voyager
Galileo
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Kepler Cassini
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Data Rates
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*normalized from Jovian Distance
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Power of Cloud Computing
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Differences in Carbon Dioxide
Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite
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RADAR as an instrument
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Christ Church Earthquake New Zealand February, 2011
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from radar data acquired 3 days after earthquake
zone map released 4 months after earthquake
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SWOT Surface Water Ocean Topography
NISAR NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar
Power of Cloud Computing
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Lessons Learned for Scientific Computing
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1. Our Data Travels Too Much
Lessons Learned for Scientific Computing
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2. There are great algorithms & software to be shared
Lessons Learned for Scientific Computing
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The New Scientific Method to Collaborate
images
videos
files
binaries
snapshots
EC2
Amazon Elastic MapReduce
Amazon S3EC2 Machine Images
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3. Everyone wants more infrastructure
Lessons Learned for Scientific Computing
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“my cluster is not big enough...”- every scientist
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“buying a bigger cluster is too expensive...”
- every IT department
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“my queue wait time is too long...”- every scientist
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“that’s the only way I can run efficiently...”- every IT department
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a top-500 supercomputer
ready in 100 seconds
for less than $100 per hour
Jet Propulsion LaboratoryCalifornia Institute of Technology
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This journey was not easy …
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Our Recipe for Cloud Computing
Explore, Secure, Procure
Impact
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JPL Open House
Oct 10th & 11th
4800 Oak Grove Dr Pasadena, CA
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Remember to complete your evaluations!
@ksshams
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Thank you!
@ksshams@robwitoff