Software Carpentry in the Cloud Boot Camp
ICHEC in association with Amazon Web Services (AWS) are organising the "Software Carpentry in the Cloud Boot Camp" on 1-3 September 2012. This 3-day boot camp will cover the fundamentals of software carpentry such as the tools and techniques that enhance the design, development, execution and testing of software, with particular reference to dealing with today's high-throughput and time-critical computing problems. Emphasis will be placed on software deployment in the cloud using AWS to improve software scalability.
The first two days of the boot camp will consist of talks and hands-on tutorials on software carpentry tools and techniques with a view to deployment in the cloud using AWS. Participants will then form teams of two to compete in the "Grand Challenge": a problem will be announced at the end of the second day where each team will devise, develop and deploy its solution using cloud computing resources.
Details
| Date: | 1st to 3rd September 2012 (Sat to Mon) |
| Location: | Chartered Accountants House, 47-49 Pearse Street, Dublin 2. [ location ] |
| Organiser: | Please contact Dr. Simon Wong at ICHEC for enquiries. |
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| Registration Fee | €50 (academic), €120 (commercial) Fee goes towards ICHEC resources and hosting costs; special thanks to Amazon Web Services for their kind contribution and sponsorship of this event. |
| Application: | Application for the event has closed. |
| Registration Deadline: | 24th August 2012 |
| Catering: | Lunch and break tea/coffee are provided for the three days, as well as dinner for one of the evenings |
| Please note that registrants are responsible for all costs involved: registration fee, travel, subsistence and accommodation. | |
Schedule
1st September - Saturday |
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| 09:00 - 10:00 | Introduction to Software Carpentry and Cloud Computing | ICHEC staff |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Introduction to Amazon Web Services I (EC2, S3, EBS) | AWS staff |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | BREAK | |
| 11:30 - 13:00 | Test-driven software development, exception handling | ICHEC staff |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | LUNCH | |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Databases: SQL and NoSQL | ICHEC staff |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | BREAK | |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Introduction to Amazon Web Services II (DynamoDB, SQS, SNS) | AWS staff |
| 19:00 - 22:00 | Dinner at Bar Italia IFSC | |
2nd September - Sunday |
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| 09:00 - 10:30 | Cloud instance management | ICHEC staff |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | BREAK | |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Code management | ICHEC staff |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | LUNCH | |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | AWS: Elastic Map Reduce | AWS staff |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | BREAK | |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | AWS hands-on & Introduction to the "Grand Challenge" | AWS & ICHEC staff |
3rd September - Monday |
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| 08:30 - 13:00 | "Grand Challenge" | Supervised by AWS & ICHEC staff |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | LUNCH | |
| 14:00 - 17:30 | Presentation of solutions to the "Grand Challenge" Selection of winning team |
Participants |
We would like to pay special thanks to Amazon Web Services for their sponsorship of this event.