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Doing Science in the Cloud

Martin Abbott, Victor Olet

Talk Description

In the days before the cloud, when you needed to do complex scientific simulations you had to use a powerful workstation or a supercomputer.

With the cloud, it is now possible to use high performance computing to run simulations at scale and using techniques such as parallel computing to reduce simulation time.

In this session, Martin and Victor will talk through some use cases and show demos of how to use Microsoft Azure to run complex simulations in areas such as molecular modelling and computational fluid dynamics.

There will be lots of science, and some really cool graphics.

Knowledge Level

Level 200: Experienced. Attendees should have an awareness of the topic but may not have practical experience.

Martin Abbott

Speaker Linkedin Page

Martin Abbott is an experienced Strategist and Technical Architect with over 25 years of experience helping organisations transform their operating models with judicious application of AI and IoT. A scientist and engineer at heart, with a background in Computational Fluid Dynamics, he just loves the power that cloud can bring to hard science problems.

Victor Olet

Speaker Linkedin Page

Victor Olet is an Education Specialist at Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, with a computational chemistry research background. With expertise in computational science and High-Performance Computing (HPC), he focuses on leveraging HPC and cloud computing to advance scientific applications.