AWS re:Invent 2022 Session Schedule

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Monday

A framework for physics-informed neural networks on PyTorch

Summary: In this chalk talk, learn about a new physics-informed neural network (PINNs) framework for simulations on PyTorch for fast-to-compute and highly accurate models for various applications. The computational cost associated with multi-physics simulations often impose serious limitations for design space exploration, optimization, and uncertainty quantification. Learn how to apply methods for solving partial differential equations that govern the physics of engineering systems using PINNs and other relevant applications in engineering. This was developed and implemented by AWS in collaboration with the University of Central Florida.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: CMP211-R

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Srinivas Tadepalli, Head of HPC GTM (AWS) | Ana Simoes, Principal Specialist, ML Frameworks, Amazon (Amazon)
Monday 10:00-11:00 @ Level 1, Forum 104, Caesars Forum
Deep dive on accelerating HPC and ML with Amazon FSx

Summary: File services are often asked to deliver performant capabilities with low latencies for compute-intensive workloads or high IOPS for data-intensive applications. In this session, learn best practices for choosing how to rightsize your performance, reduce latency, increase throughput, and optimize cost. The Amazon FSx family of managed file storage services provides feature sets and performance profiles supporting a variety of use cases. Many workloads like machine learning (ML), high performance computing (HPC), video rendering, and financial analytics require cost optimizations and deployment options. This session also shares tips and best practices for migrating performant-dependent use cases to AWS.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: STG343

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Eric Anderson, GM, Lustre / File Cache and Shrinath Kurdekar, Principal Solutions Architect (AWS)
Monday 10:00-11:00 @ Level 1 North, South Pacific F, Mandalay Bay
High-throughput computing for financial risk management and modeling

Summary: In this chalk talk, explore how financial services industry organizations can achieve greater elasticity, higher throughput, and significant cost savings with a cloud-native high-throughput computing (HTC) grid solution built on AWS core services. Using modular architecture made up of managed services such as Amazon EKS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SQS, and Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, HTC grid solutions dynamically scale computing resources to meet the demanding throughput requirements of risk-analytics workloads. Join the talk to learn about the modular architecture, scalability, and performance you can achieve with this solution.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: CMP331-R

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Kirill Bogdanov, Sr. Solutions Architect and Mark Norton, Principal EC2 & HPC Specialist (AWS)
Monday 10:00-11:00 @ Level 1, Room 101, MGM Grand
AWS Batch ask me anything

Summary: In this interactive builders’ session, the leading AWS Batch product manager and team answer common questions about the service. Get the opportunity to provide feedback to the people planning the next set of AWS Batch features. Come prepared to share your questions and thoughts. You must bring your laptop to participate.

Session Type: Builders | Session ID: CMP317-R

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Jo Adegbola, Matt Vaughn, Naina Thangaraj, Tom Burggraf, Vinothkumar Narasimhan (AWS)
Monday 10:45-11:45 @ Level 1, Latour 7, Wynn
Accelerating semiconductor design, simulation, and verification

Summary: AWS offers many solutions to design, simulate, and verify the advanced semiconductor devices that are the foundation of modern technology. Electronic design automation (EDA) workloads are critical to the success of chip development. EDA requires computing for digital and analog simulations, logic synthesis, design rule checks, and physical verification. In this session, discover best practices for running HPC or EDA workloads on AWS using Amazon EC2. Hear from Arm about how they use AWS to accelerate EDA workloads in the cloud using Arm-based AWS Graviton instances. Also, Marvell shares how they’re using EDA in the cloud to scale their highly differentiated cloud-optimized silicon solutions for customers like AWS.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: CMP320

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Mark Galbraith, VP Productivity Engineering (Arm) | William Cornwell, VP of Engineering (Marvell)
Monday 10:45-11:45 @ Level 1, Grand 115, MGM Grand
A framework for physics-informed neural networks on PyTorch

Summary: In this chalk talk, learn about a new physics-informed neural network (PINNs) framework for simulations on PyTorch for fast-to-compute and highly accurate models for various applications. The computational cost associated with multi-physics simulations often impose serious limitations for design space exploration, optimization, and uncertainty quantification. Learn how to apply methods for solving partial differential equations that govern the physics of engineering systems using PINNs and other relevant applications in engineering. This was developed and implemented by AWS in collaboration with the University of Central Florida.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: CMP211-R1

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Srinivas Tadepalli, Head of HPC GTM (AWS) | Ana Simoes, Principal Specialist, ML Frameworks (Amazon)
Monday 13:45-14:45 @ Level 1, Boulevard 169, MGM Grand
Modernizing HPC workloads using AWS services

Summary: For decades, industries have been using high-performance computing (HPC) to solve problems that are not solvable on a single machine or to shorten problem-solving run time. Traditionally, HPC workloads are launched and managed on the master node, which represents a single point of failure. Building HPC clusters on AWS allows you to keep the same user experience of launching, monitoring, and managing an HPC workload. In this chalk talk, learn how to launch, monitor, and manage an HPC workload using native AWS services, following a seismic processing problem as an example.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: ENU402

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Cyril Lagrange, Solution Architect and Kun Jiao, Energy Principal Solutions Architect (AWS)
Monday 15:15-16:15 @ Level 1, Academy 412, Caesars Forum
The convergence of HPC and ML on AWS

Summary: Discover the power of combining traditional HPC simulations with AI/ML services to activate new workflows and scientific breakthroughs. In this chalk talk, learn about combined AWS HPC and ML solutions that have evolved to state-of-the-art supercomputing models, powered by AWS services like Elastic Fabric Adapter, AWS ParallelCluster, Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon FSx for Lustre, and AWS Batch. Learn how AWS trained and deployed a new open-source PyTorch-based protein folding model called OpenFold Single Sequence to accelerate drug discovery on AWS using HPC-grade distributed systems. Dive deep on technology innovations and architecture optimizations for HPC-scale ML use cases.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: CMP326

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Ankur Srivastava and Shubha Kumbadakone (AWS) | Sachin Kadyan, OpenFold ML Researcher (Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University)
Monday 16:00-17:00 @ Level 3, 301, MGM Grand
How to maximize HPC productivity, performance, and portability (sponsored by NVIDIA)

Summary: In this session, learn how NVIDIA enables high-performance computing (HPC) on over 200 Amazon EC2 instance types. NVIDIA provides a multi-platform, standards-compliant, vendor-supported solution for HPC application development that supports all major programming models. Its proven compilers, libraries, and software tools support AWS Graviton to maximize developer productivity, enable hardware platform choice, and facilitate an optimal price-performance solution for HPC applications in the cloud. This presentation is brought to you by NVIDIA, an AWS Partner.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: PRT220

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John Linford, Technical Product Manager CPU Software (NVIDIA)
Monday 16:00-17:00 @ Level 3 South, South Seas C, Mandalay Bay
Solving problems in TV broadcasting and production with HPC and ML

Summary: In this chalk talk, learn about unexpected developments in broadcast video production that allowed major studio production to move to high performance computing (HPC) on AWS. As part of the solution deep dive, get a refresher on the AWS Nitro System. Learn about Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA), a network for Amazon EC2 instances and how they enable scalable AI/ML model training for advanced HPC workloads that go beyond broadcasting to drug discovery, weather, and other use cases.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: CMP316

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Brendan Bouffler and Evan Statton (AWS)
Monday 17:30-18:30 @ Level 1, Lafite 4, Wynn

Tuesday

Ephemeral HPC to accelerate energy and utility workflows

Summary: Energy and utility companies use high performance computing (HPC) to design and optimize operations. Elastic, cloud-based HPC resources can dynamically provide the computational power needed for simulations on demand by creating reusable pipelines. HPC on AWS can be instantiated with the nodes and memory to optimize turnaround time while keeping the results sufficiently accurate. This allows you to make decisions about tradeoffs between cost, run time, and accuracy resolution based on your organization’s priorities. This chalk talk explores how to create HPC using infrastructure as code with AWS CloudFormation, Amazon EC2 Image Builder, Amazon FSx for Lustre, and inherited IAM permissions.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: ENU401

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Abhishek Naik, Senior Solutions Architect and Kyle Jones, Sr. Manager (AWS)
Tuesday 13:15-14:15 @ Level 1, Room 104, MGM Grand
Data analysis with Amazon EKS and AWS Batch

Summary: In this session, you'll gain an understanding for the recently added AWS Batch support for managing and scheduling large-scale data analysis using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Join this hands-on workshop and learn AWS Batch fundamental concepts, and how it works together with your other AWS services running within EKS. You will deploy an EKS cluster, leverage AWS Batch to managed pods, and train a simple machine learning model. You must bring your laptop to participate in hands-on exercises.

Session Type: Workshop | Session ID: CMP335-R

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Angel Pizarro and Maxime Hugues (AWS)
Tuesday 14:00-16:00 @ Level 3, Murano 3204, Venetian
Discover the full power of HPC on AWS and remove infrastructure constraints

Summary: This talk is delivered in Italian. High performance computing (HPC) has always been about utilizing the most effective technologies to solve the world’s most complex problems. However, many HPC users have been constrained by the need to purchase and deploy on-premises infrastructure to gain access to the best technologies for their applications. AWS HPC helps you innovate beyond the limitations of on-premises HPC infrastructure. In this talk, see how to create and manage HPC environments with AWS ParallelCluster, access 400 Gbps networking with Elastic Fabric Adapter, and chose from over 500 Amazon EC2 instances to run your largest, most complex HPC workloads in the cloud.

Session Type: Geo Talk | Session ID: GEO032

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Nicola Venuti, Principal Specialist Solution Architect (AWS)
Tuesday 14:30-14:50 @ Level 1, Casanova Foyer- AWS Global Lounge, Venetian
Coding for multiple CPU architectures using lessons learned in HPC

Summary: This chalk talk details best practices and lessons learned about coding for multiple architectures (x86 and AWS Graviton) from the last ten years in the high performance computing (HPC) community. Amazon EC2 has seen a significant rise in the adoption of Arm-based AWS Graviton instances. When supporting multiple architectures, it’s important to ensure a consistent developer experience. When workloads run on multiple architectures, platform nuances and commonalities must be addressed to forge a transparent developer environment. Come learn how HPC development techniques can be applied to almost any compute workload and how to effectively code for multiple compute infrastructure architectures.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: CMP325

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Arthur Petitpierre and Karthik Raman (AWS)
Tuesday 16:15-17:15 @ Level 1, Forum 126, Caesars Forum
AWS Batch on Amazon EKS: Full lifecycle job management for batch workloads

Summary: Organizations are using Kubernetes to manage their microservices, and it’s natural to want to use it for everything else, including the batch-type workloads in HPC, AI/ML, and large-scale data processing. Customer feedback led AWS to connect AWS Batch to Amazon EKS. The result is a fully managed service for scaling Kubernetes nodes, placing pods, and supporting job completion— the whole lifecycle. In this session, learn how to easily run batch jobs at scale.

Session Type: Demo | Session ID: CMP003

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Angel Pizarro (AWS)
Tuesday 17:00-17:20 @ Hall B, Expo, AWS Village, Village Theater, Booth #1335, Venetian

Wednesday

Best practices for high performance computing in the cloud

Summary: Join this workshop to gain a solid skills foundation to run common high performance computing (HPC) workloads using cloud technologies. Start with a primer on modern cloud foundations and how they map to common HPC concepts. Then, get a deeper view into how to use cloud-native technologies, such as object storage, in HPC workflows. Get hands-on experience setting up your own cluster in the cloud and running a sample application. You must bring your laptop to participate.

Session Type: Workshop | Session ID: CMP305

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Lowell Wofford and Maxime Hugues (AWS)
Wednesday 9:15-11:15 @ Level 3, Premier 315, MGM Grand
A day in the life of a cloud-empowered aerodynamics engineer

Summary: Imagine yourself as an aerodynamics engineer who uses computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to design new cars and planes, and you want the fastest turnaround times while retaining accuracy. This interactive chalk talk walks through techniques for optimizing complex workflows by combining AWS capabilities with optimization tricks to reduce simulation time for popular CFD codes such as OpenFOAM and Siemens Simcenter STAR-CCM+.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: CMP402

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Neil Ashton and Sean Smith (AWS)
Wednesday 10:45-11:45 @ Level 1, Academy 412, Caesars Forum
Data analysis with Amazon EKS and AWS Batch

Summary: In this session, you'll gain an understanding for the recently added AWS Batch support for managing and scheduling large-scale data analysis using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Join this hands-on workshop and learn AWS Batch fundamental concepts, and how it works together with your other AWS services running within EKS. You will deploy an EKS cluster, leverage AWS Batch to managed pods, and train a simple machine learning model. You must bring your laptop to participate in hands-on exercises.

Session Type: Workshop | Session ID: CMP335-R1

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Angel Pizarro and Maxime Hugues (AWS)
Wednesday 11:30-13:30 @ Level 3, Murano 3204, Venetian
How Intel & AWS collaborate to solve some of the world’s most urgent issues (sponsored by Intel)

Summary: AWS and Intel are committed to solving the world’s most critical social and environmental challenges through the power of HPC. Intel and AWS have collaborated to deliver first-rate engineering, resources, and results to impact customers around the world. Join this session to hear from Harvard Cancer Center, IKTOS, and Good Chemistry Co., who have utilized the scalability and availability of cloud computing powered by Intel to address problems spanning from cancer to ‘forever chemicals’ in water. This presentation is brought to you by Intel, an AWS Partner.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: PRT278

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Tanner Marsh, Developer (HMS / VirtualFlow Project) | Arman Zaribafiyan, CEO (Good Chemistry)
Wednesday 13:45-14:45 @ Upper Convention Promenade, Cristal 7, Wynn
Solve complex problems with pay-as-you-go infrastructure

Summary: In this session, learn how high performance computing (HPC) on AWS makes extreme-scale compute possible so that you can solve some of the world’s toughest environmental, social, health, and scientific problems. Learn about infrastructure that can help you design your products faster with simulations, predict the weather, detect seismic activity with greater precision, and much more. Discover how to run your massively parallel workloads and analyze more data with virtually unlimited infrastructure and nearly endless scale. Finally, learn how you can simply turn it off when you’re done and start it up when you’re ready to begin again, helping you optimize your HPC costs.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: CMP205

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Ian Colle (AWS) | Chen Su, Sr Director of HPC (Eli Lilly)
Wednesday 14:30-15:30 @ Level 1, Terrace 151, MGM Grand
Solve complex problems with pay-as-you-go infrastructure (Overflow room)

Summary: In this session, learn how high performance computing (HPC) on AWS makes extreme-scale compute possible so that you can solve some of the world’s toughest environmental, social, health, and scientific problems. Learn about infrastructure that can help you design your products faster with simulations, predict the weather, detect seismic activity with greater precision, and much more. Discover how to run your massively parallel workloads and analyze more data with virtually unlimited infrastructure and nearly endless scale. Finally, learn how you can simply turn it off when you’re done and start it up when you’re ready to begin again, helping you optimize your HPC costs.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: CMP205-OF

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Ian Colle (AWS) | Chen Su, Sr Director of HPC (Eli Lilly)
Wednesday 14:30-15:30 @ Level 1, Summit 231, Content Hub, Red Screen, Caesars Forum
Deep dive on using AWS Batch with container-based clusters

Summary: In this chalk talk, learn how to efficiently and cost-effectively run your high-scale, compute-intensive workloads using the capabilities of AWS Batch. Scaling containers for batch workloads like machine learning training, simulations, and large dataset processing in a timely fashion is challenging. AWS Batch is a fully managed service for orchestrating AWS compute resources for batch processing or parallel computing at any scale. AWS Batch can schedule, orchestrate, and run your jobs on container-based clusters and automatically scale resources to match your job requirements.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: CMP329-R

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Ala Abunijem and Angel Pizarro (AWS)
Wednesday 16:45-17:45 @ Level 1, Montrachet 1, Wynn
Redefining Supercomputing on AWS

Summary: As the world strives to solve increasingly complex problems, single on-premises general-purpose supercomputers can fall short. In this session, you’ll learn how AWS is reimagining supercomputing to provide scientists and engineers more access to world-class facilities and technology. Whether it’s finding new life-saving drugs, localizing natural disaster prediction, or designing airplanes powered by alternative energy sources, High Performance Computing (HPC) is transforming our lives. Nearly everything we use, such as our cars and electronics, are designed using supercomputers, a class of HPC computing. Supercomputers divide a single problem across hundreds to thousands of servers to perform high-speed calculations that reduce overall time to solution.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: CMP222

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Heidi Poxon and Neil Ashton (AWS)
Wednesday 19:45-20:45 @ Level 3, South, South Seas A, Mandalay Bay
Elastic Fabric Adapter advanced topics for AI/ML and HPC

Summary: Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA), built on the Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD) protocol, is the foundation for scaling message passing interface (MPI) and NVIDIA Collective Communications Library–based high performance computing (HPC) and machine learning (ML) codes at AWS. This builders’ session addresses application scaling challenges and is led by an AWS EFA team principal engineer. It includes a roundtable-style discussion, so come prepared to share your thoughts and questions. You must bring your laptop to participate.

Session Type: Builders | Session ID: CMP407

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Evan Bollig, Matt Koop, Maxime Hugues, Pierre-Yves Aquilanti, Timothy Brown (AWS)
Wednesday 19:45-20:45 @ Level 1, Latour 7, Wynn

Thursday

Faster drug discovery design with WEKA on AWS (sponsored by WEKA)

Summary: New methods like cryo-EM are enabling rapid advances in drug discovery. Using the right analysis workflow and tools are critical to success. In this lightning talk, join WEKA and Clovertex to learn how you can accelerate your drug design workflows using the WEKA data platform and Clovertex’s services on AWS. This presentation is brought to you by WEKA, an AWS Partner.

Session Type: Lightning Talk | Session ID: PRT107

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Baris Guler, Principal Architect (AWS)
Thursday 12:35-12:50 @ Hall B, Expo, Lightning Theater 2 , Booth #3543,
AWS Batch ask me anything

Summary: In this interactive builders’ session, the leading AWS Batch product manager and team answer common questions about the service. Get the opportunity to provide feedback to the people planning the next set of AWS Batch features. Come prepared to share your questions and thoughts. You must bring your laptop to participate.

Session Type: Builders | Session ID: CMP317-R1

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Jo Adegbola, Matt Vaughn, Naina Thangaraj, Tom Burggraf, Vinothkumar Narasimhan (AWS)
Thursday 14:45-15:45 @ Level 1, Latour 7, Wynn

Friday

How AWS and aerospace and geospatial companies are rethinking HPC

Summary: In this session, learn about model-based design and the high-performance computing (HPC) this drives. Hear from AWS customers who are rethinking and reworking their HPC workloads on AWS with a focus on innovation, agility, and the use of deep learning in combination with HPC. Additionally, AWS experts present new approaches for the convergence of model-based design, machine learning, data analytics, and HPC with application to aerospace and engineering challenges.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: CMP220

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Barry Bolding (AWS) | Colin Haubrich (Wisk Aero)
Friday 8:30-9:30 @ Level 1, Forum 113, Caesars Forum
How AWS and aerospace and geospatial companies are rethinking HPC (Overflow room)

Summary: In this session, learn about model-based design and the high-performance computing (HPC) this drives. Hear from AWS customers who are rethinking and reworking their HPC workloads on AWS with a focus on innovation, agility, and the use of deep learning in combination with HPC. Additionally, AWS experts present new approaches for the convergence of model-based design, machine learning, data analytics, and HPC with application to aerospace and engineering challenges.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: CMP220-OF

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Barry Bolding (AWS) | Colin Haubrich (Wisk Aero)
Friday 8:30-9:30 @ Level 2, Venetian E, Content Hub, Yellow Screen, Venetian
Deep dive on using AWS Batch with container-based clusters

Summary: In this chalk talk, learn how to efficiently and cost-effectively run your high-scale, compute-intensive workloads using the capabilities of AWS Batch. Scaling containers for batch workloads like machine learning training, simulations, and large dataset processing in a timely fashion is challenging. AWS Batch is a fully managed service for orchestrating AWS compute resources for batch processing or parallel computing at any scale. AWS Batch can schedule, orchestrate, and run your jobs on container-based clusters and automatically scale resources to match your job requirements.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: CMP329-R1

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Ala Abunijem and Angel Pizarro (AWS)
Friday 10:00-11:00 @ Level 1, Forum 110, Caesars Forum


AWS Batch

AWS Batch ask me anything

Summary: In this interactive builders’ session, the leading AWS Batch product manager and team answer common questions about the service. Get the opportunity to provide feedback to the people planning the next set of AWS Batch features. Come prepared to share your questions and thoughts. You must bring your laptop to participate.

Session Type: Builders | Session ID: CMP317-R

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Jo Adegbola, Matt Vaughn, Naina Thangaraj, Tom Burggraf, Vinothkumar Narasimhan (AWS)
Monday 10:45-11:45 @ Level 1, Latour 7, Wynn
Data analysis with Amazon EKS and AWS Batch

Summary: In this session, you'll gain an understanding for the recently added AWS Batch support for managing and scheduling large-scale data analysis using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Join this hands-on workshop and learn AWS Batch fundamental concepts, and how it works together with your other AWS services running within EKS. You will deploy an EKS cluster, leverage AWS Batch to managed pods, and train a simple machine learning model. You must bring your laptop to participate in hands-on exercises.

Session Type: Workshop | Session ID: CMP335-R

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Angel Pizarro and Maxime Hugues (AWS)
Tuesday 14:00-16:00 @ Level 3, Murano 3204, Venetian
Discover the full power of HPC on AWS and remove infrastructure constraints

Summary: This talk is delivered in Italian. High performance computing (HPC) has always been about utilizing the most effective technologies to solve the world’s most complex problems. However, many HPC users have been constrained by the need to purchase and deploy on-premises infrastructure to gain access to the best technologies for their applications. AWS HPC helps you innovate beyond the limitations of on-premises HPC infrastructure. In this talk, see how to create and manage HPC environments with AWS ParallelCluster, access 400 Gbps networking with Elastic Fabric Adapter, and chose from over 500 Amazon EC2 instances to run your largest, most complex HPC workloads in the cloud.

Session Type: Geo Talk | Session ID: GEO032

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Nicola Venuti, Principal Specialist Solution Architect (AWS)
Tuesday 14:30-14:50 @ Level 1, Casanova Foyer- AWS Global Lounge, Venetian
AWS Batch on Amazon EKS: Full lifecycle job management for batch workloads

Summary: Organizations are using Kubernetes to manage their microservices, and it’s natural to want to use it for everything else, including the batch-type workloads in HPC, AI/ML, and large-scale data processing. Customer feedback led AWS to connect AWS Batch to Amazon EKS. The result is a fully managed service for scaling Kubernetes nodes, placing pods, and supporting job completion— the whole lifecycle. In this session, learn how to easily run batch jobs at scale.

Session Type: Demo | Session ID: CMP003

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Angel Pizarro (AWS)
Tuesday 17:00-17:20 @ Hall B, Expo, AWS Village, Village Theater, Booth #1335, Venetian
Best practices for high performance computing in the cloud

Summary: Join this workshop to gain a solid skills foundation to run common high performance computing (HPC) workloads using cloud technologies. Start with a primer on modern cloud foundations and how they map to common HPC concepts. Then, get a deeper view into how to use cloud-native technologies, such as object storage, in HPC workflows. Get hands-on experience setting up your own cluster in the cloud and running a sample application. You must bring your laptop to participate.

Session Type: Workshop | Session ID: CMP305

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Lowell Wofford and Maxime Hugues (AWS)
Wednesday 9:15-11:15 @ Level 3, Premier 315, MGM Grand
Data analysis with Amazon EKS and AWS Batch

Summary: In this session, you'll gain an understanding for the recently added AWS Batch support for managing and scheduling large-scale data analysis using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Join this hands-on workshop and learn AWS Batch fundamental concepts, and how it works together with your other AWS services running within EKS. You will deploy an EKS cluster, leverage AWS Batch to managed pods, and train a simple machine learning model. You must bring your laptop to participate in hands-on exercises.

Session Type: Workshop | Session ID: CMP335-R1

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Angel Pizarro and Maxime Hugues (AWS)
Wednesday 11:30-13:30 @ Level 3, Murano 3204, Venetian
Solve complex problems with pay-as-you-go infrastructure

Summary: In this session, learn how high performance computing (HPC) on AWS makes extreme-scale compute possible so that you can solve some of the world’s toughest environmental, social, health, and scientific problems. Learn about infrastructure that can help you design your products faster with simulations, predict the weather, detect seismic activity with greater precision, and much more. Discover how to run your massively parallel workloads and analyze more data with virtually unlimited infrastructure and nearly endless scale. Finally, learn how you can simply turn it off when you’re done and start it up when you’re ready to begin again, helping you optimize your HPC costs.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: CMP205

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Ian Colle (AWS) | Chen Su, Sr Director of HPC (Eli Lilly)
Wednesday 14:30-15:30 @ Level 1, Terrace 151, MGM Grand
Solve complex problems with pay-as-you-go infrastructure (Overflow room)

Summary: In this session, learn how high performance computing (HPC) on AWS makes extreme-scale compute possible so that you can solve some of the world’s toughest environmental, social, health, and scientific problems. Learn about infrastructure that can help you design your products faster with simulations, predict the weather, detect seismic activity with greater precision, and much more. Discover how to run your massively parallel workloads and analyze more data with virtually unlimited infrastructure and nearly endless scale. Finally, learn how you can simply turn it off when you’re done and start it up when you’re ready to begin again, helping you optimize your HPC costs.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: CMP205-OF

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Ian Colle (AWS) | Chen Su, Sr Director of HPC (Eli Lilly)
Wednesday 14:30-15:30 @ Level 1, Summit 231, Content Hub, Red Screen, Caesars Forum
Deep dive on using AWS Batch with container-based clusters

Summary: In this chalk talk, learn how to efficiently and cost-effectively run your high-scale, compute-intensive workloads using the capabilities of AWS Batch. Scaling containers for batch workloads like machine learning training, simulations, and large dataset processing in a timely fashion is challenging. AWS Batch is a fully managed service for orchestrating AWS compute resources for batch processing or parallel computing at any scale. AWS Batch can schedule, orchestrate, and run your jobs on container-based clusters and automatically scale resources to match your job requirements.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: CMP329-R

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Ala Abunijem and Angel Pizarro (AWS)
Wednesday 16:45-17:45 @ Level 1, Montrachet 1, Wynn
Redefining Supercomputing on AWS

Summary: As the world strives to solve increasingly complex problems, single on-premises general-purpose supercomputers can fall short. In this session, you’ll learn how AWS is reimagining supercomputing to provide scientists and engineers more access to world-class facilities and technology. Whether it’s finding new life-saving drugs, localizing natural disaster prediction, or designing airplanes powered by alternative energy sources, High Performance Computing (HPC) is transforming our lives. Nearly everything we use, such as our cars and electronics, are designed using supercomputers, a class of HPC computing. Supercomputers divide a single problem across hundreds to thousands of servers to perform high-speed calculations that reduce overall time to solution.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: CMP222

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Heidi Poxon and Neil Ashton (AWS)
Wednesday 19:45-20:45 @ Level 3, South, South Seas A, Mandalay Bay
AWS Batch ask me anything

Summary: In this interactive builders’ session, the leading AWS Batch product manager and team answer common questions about the service. Get the opportunity to provide feedback to the people planning the next set of AWS Batch features. Come prepared to share your questions and thoughts. You must bring your laptop to participate.

Session Type: Builders | Session ID: CMP317-R1

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Jo Adegbola, Matt Vaughn, Naina Thangaraj, Tom Burggraf, Vinothkumar Narasimhan (AWS)
Thursday 14:45-15:45 @ Level 1, Latour 7, Wynn
How AWS and aerospace and geospatial companies are rethinking HPC

Summary: In this session, learn about model-based design and the high-performance computing (HPC) this drives. Hear from AWS customers who are rethinking and reworking their HPC workloads on AWS with a focus on innovation, agility, and the use of deep learning in combination with HPC. Additionally, AWS experts present new approaches for the convergence of model-based design, machine learning, data analytics, and HPC with application to aerospace and engineering challenges.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: CMP220

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Barry Bolding (AWS) | Colin Haubrich (Wisk Aero)
Friday 8:30-9:30 @ Level 1, Forum 113, Caesars Forum
How AWS and aerospace and geospatial companies are rethinking HPC (Overflow room)

Summary: In this session, learn about model-based design and the high-performance computing (HPC) this drives. Hear from AWS customers who are rethinking and reworking their HPC workloads on AWS with a focus on innovation, agility, and the use of deep learning in combination with HPC. Additionally, AWS experts present new approaches for the convergence of model-based design, machine learning, data analytics, and HPC with application to aerospace and engineering challenges.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: CMP220-OF

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Barry Bolding (AWS) | Colin Haubrich (Wisk Aero)
Friday 8:30-9:30 @ Level 2, Venetian E, Content Hub, Yellow Screen, Venetian
Deep dive on using AWS Batch with container-based clusters

Summary: In this chalk talk, learn how to efficiently and cost-effectively run your high-scale, compute-intensive workloads using the capabilities of AWS Batch. Scaling containers for batch workloads like machine learning training, simulations, and large dataset processing in a timely fashion is challenging. AWS Batch is a fully managed service for orchestrating AWS compute resources for batch processing or parallel computing at any scale. AWS Batch can schedule, orchestrate, and run your jobs on container-based clusters and automatically scale resources to match your job requirements.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: CMP329-R1

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Ala Abunijem and Angel Pizarro (AWS)
Friday 10:00-11:00 @ Level 1, Forum 110, Caesars Forum


Arm
How to maximize HPC productivity, performance, and portability (sponsored by NVIDIA)

Summary: In this session, learn how NVIDIA enables high-performance computing (HPC) on over 200 Amazon EC2 instance types. NVIDIA provides a multi-platform, standards-compliant, vendor-supported solution for HPC application development that supports all major programming models. Its proven compilers, libraries, and software tools support AWS Graviton to maximize developer productivity, enable hardware platform choice, and facilitate an optimal price-performance solution for HPC applications in the cloud. This presentation is brought to you by NVIDIA, an AWS Partner.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: PRT220

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John Linford, Technical Product Manager CPU Software (NVIDIA)
Monday 16:00-17:00 @ Level 3 South, South Seas C, Mandalay Bay
Coding for multiple CPU architectures using lessons learned in HPC

Summary: This chalk talk details best practices and lessons learned about coding for multiple architectures (x86 and AWS Graviton) from the last ten years in the high performance computing (HPC) community. Amazon EC2 has seen a significant rise in the adoption of Arm-based AWS Graviton instances. When supporting multiple architectures, it’s important to ensure a consistent developer experience. When workloads run on multiple architectures, platform nuances and commonalities must be addressed to forge a transparent developer environment. Come learn how HPC development techniques can be applied to almost any compute workload and how to effectively code for multiple compute infrastructure architectures.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: CMP325

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Arthur Petitpierre and Karthik Raman (AWS)
Tuesday 16:15-17:15 @ Level 1, Forum 126, Caesars Forum


CAE
A day in the life of a cloud-empowered aerodynamics engineer

Summary: Imagine yourself as an aerodynamics engineer who uses computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to design new cars and planes, and you want the fastest turnaround times while retaining accuracy. This interactive chalk talk walks through techniques for optimizing complex workflows by combining AWS capabilities with optimization tricks to reduce simulation time for popular CFD codes such as OpenFOAM and Siemens Simcenter STAR-CCM+.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: CMP402

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Neil Ashton and Sean Smith (AWS)
Wednesday 10:45-11:45 @ Level 1, Academy 412, Caesars Forum


CFD
A day in the life of a cloud-empowered aerodynamics engineer

Summary: Imagine yourself as an aerodynamics engineer who uses computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to design new cars and planes, and you want the fastest turnaround times while retaining accuracy. This interactive chalk talk walks through techniques for optimizing complex workflows by combining AWS capabilities with optimization tricks to reduce simulation time for popular CFD codes such as OpenFOAM and Siemens Simcenter STAR-CCM+.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: CMP402

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Neil Ashton and Sean Smith (AWS)
Wednesday 10:45-11:45 @ Level 1, Academy 412, Caesars Forum


Containers
AWS Batch ask me anything

Summary: In this interactive builders’ session, the leading AWS Batch product manager and team answer common questions about the service. Get the opportunity to provide feedback to the people planning the next set of AWS Batch features. Come prepared to share your questions and thoughts. You must bring your laptop to participate.

Session Type: Builders | Session ID: CMP317-R

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Jo Adegbola, Matt Vaughn, Naina Thangaraj, Tom Burggraf, Vinothkumar Narasimhan (AWS)
Monday 10:45-11:45 @ Level 1, Latour 7, Wynn
Data analysis with Amazon EKS and AWS Batch

Summary: In this session, you'll gain an understanding for the recently added AWS Batch support for managing and scheduling large-scale data analysis using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Join this hands-on workshop and learn AWS Batch fundamental concepts, and how it works together with your other AWS services running within EKS. You will deploy an EKS cluster, leverage AWS Batch to managed pods, and train a simple machine learning model. You must bring your laptop to participate in hands-on exercises.

Session Type: Workshop | Session ID: CMP335-R

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Angel Pizarro and Maxime Hugues (AWS)
Tuesday 14:00-16:00 @ Level 3, Murano 3204, Venetian
AWS Batch on Amazon EKS: Full lifecycle job management for batch workloads

Summary: Organizations are using Kubernetes to manage their microservices, and it’s natural to want to use it for everything else, including the batch-type workloads in HPC, AI/ML, and large-scale data processing. Customer feedback led AWS to connect AWS Batch to Amazon EKS. The result is a fully managed service for scaling Kubernetes nodes, placing pods, and supporting job completion— the whole lifecycle. In this session, learn how to easily run batch jobs at scale.

Session Type: Demo | Session ID: CMP003

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Angel Pizarro (AWS)
Tuesday 17:00-17:20 @ Hall B, Expo, AWS Village, Village Theater, Booth #1335, Venetian
Data analysis with Amazon EKS and AWS Batch

Summary: In this session, you'll gain an understanding for the recently added AWS Batch support for managing and scheduling large-scale data analysis using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Join this hands-on workshop and learn AWS Batch fundamental concepts, and how it works together with your other AWS services running within EKS. You will deploy an EKS cluster, leverage AWS Batch to managed pods, and train a simple machine learning model. You must bring your laptop to participate in hands-on exercises.

Session Type: Workshop | Session ID: CMP335-R1

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Angel Pizarro and Maxime Hugues (AWS)
Wednesday 11:30-13:30 @ Level 3, Murano 3204, Venetian
Deep dive on using AWS Batch with container-based clusters

Summary: In this chalk talk, learn how to efficiently and cost-effectively run your high-scale, compute-intensive workloads using the capabilities of AWS Batch. Scaling containers for batch workloads like machine learning training, simulations, and large dataset processing in a timely fashion is challenging. AWS Batch is a fully managed service for orchestrating AWS compute resources for batch processing or parallel computing at any scale. AWS Batch can schedule, orchestrate, and run your jobs on container-based clusters and automatically scale resources to match your job requirements.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: CMP329-R

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Ala Abunijem and Angel Pizarro (AWS)
Wednesday 16:45-17:45 @ Level 1, Montrachet 1, Wynn
AWS Batch ask me anything

Summary: In this interactive builders’ session, the leading AWS Batch product manager and team answer common questions about the service. Get the opportunity to provide feedback to the people planning the next set of AWS Batch features. Come prepared to share your questions and thoughts. You must bring your laptop to participate.

Session Type: Builders | Session ID: CMP317-R1

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Jo Adegbola, Matt Vaughn, Naina Thangaraj, Tom Burggraf, Vinothkumar Narasimhan (AWS)
Thursday 14:45-15:45 @ Level 1, Latour 7, Wynn
Deep dive on using AWS Batch with container-based clusters

Summary: In this chalk talk, learn how to efficiently and cost-effectively run your high-scale, compute-intensive workloads using the capabilities of AWS Batch. Scaling containers for batch workloads like machine learning training, simulations, and large dataset processing in a timely fashion is challenging. AWS Batch is a fully managed service for orchestrating AWS compute resources for batch processing or parallel computing at any scale. AWS Batch can schedule, orchestrate, and run your jobs on container-based clusters and automatically scale resources to match your job requirements.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: CMP329-R1

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Ala Abunijem and Angel Pizarro (AWS)
Friday 10:00-11:00 @ Level 1, Forum 110, Caesars Forum


Developer Tools
Coding for multiple CPU architectures using lessons learned in HPC

Summary: This chalk talk details best practices and lessons learned about coding for multiple architectures (x86 and AWS Graviton) from the last ten years in the high performance computing (HPC) community. Amazon EC2 has seen a significant rise in the adoption of Arm-based AWS Graviton instances. When supporting multiple architectures, it’s important to ensure a consistent developer experience. When workloads run on multiple architectures, platform nuances and commonalities must be addressed to forge a transparent developer environment. Come learn how HPC development techniques can be applied to almost any compute workload and how to effectively code for multiple compute infrastructure architectures.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: CMP325

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Arthur Petitpierre and Karthik Raman (AWS)
Tuesday 16:15-17:15 @ Level 1, Forum 126, Caesars Forum


EDA
Accelerating semiconductor design, simulation, and verification

Summary: AWS offers many solutions to design, simulate, and verify the advanced semiconductor devices that are the foundation of modern technology. Electronic design automation (EDA) workloads are critical to the success of chip development. EDA requires computing for digital and analog simulations, logic synthesis, design rule checks, and physical verification. In this session, discover best practices for running HPC or EDA workloads on AWS using Amazon EC2. Hear from Arm about how they use AWS to accelerate EDA workloads in the cloud using Arm-based AWS Graviton instances. Also, Marvell shares how they’re using EDA in the cloud to scale their highly differentiated cloud-optimized silicon solutions for customers like AWS.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: CMP320

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Mark Galbraith, VP Productivity Engineering (Arm) | William Cornwell, VP of Engineering (Marvell)
Monday 10:45-11:45 @ Level 1, Grand 115, MGM Grand


EFA
A framework for physics-informed neural networks on PyTorch

Summary: In this chalk talk, learn about a new physics-informed neural network (PINNs) framework for simulations on PyTorch for fast-to-compute and highly accurate models for various applications. The computational cost associated with multi-physics simulations often impose serious limitations for design space exploration, optimization, and uncertainty quantification. Learn how to apply methods for solving partial differential equations that govern the physics of engineering systems using PINNs and other relevant applications in engineering. This was developed and implemented by AWS in collaboration with the University of Central Florida.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: CMP211-R

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Srinivas Tadepalli, Head of HPC GTM (AWS) | Ana Simoes, Principal Specialist, ML Frameworks, Amazon (Amazon)
Monday 10:00-11:00 @ Level 1, Forum 104, Caesars Forum
A framework for physics-informed neural networks on PyTorch

Summary: In this chalk talk, learn about a new physics-informed neural network (PINNs) framework for simulations on PyTorch for fast-to-compute and highly accurate models for various applications. The computational cost associated with multi-physics simulations often impose serious limitations for design space exploration, optimization, and uncertainty quantification. Learn how to apply methods for solving partial differential equations that govern the physics of engineering systems using PINNs and other relevant applications in engineering. This was developed and implemented by AWS in collaboration with the University of Central Florida.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: CMP211-R1

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Srinivas Tadepalli, Head of HPC GTM (AWS) | Ana Simoes, Principal Specialist, ML Frameworks (Amazon)
Monday 13:45-14:45 @ Level 1, Boulevard 169, MGM Grand
Solving problems in TV broadcasting and production with HPC and ML

Summary: In this chalk talk, learn about unexpected developments in broadcast video production that allowed major studio production to move to high performance computing (HPC) on AWS. As part of the solution deep dive, get a refresher on the AWS Nitro System. Learn about Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA), a network for Amazon EC2 instances and how they enable scalable AI/ML model training for advanced HPC workloads that go beyond broadcasting to drug discovery, weather, and other use cases.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: CMP316

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Brendan Bouffler and Evan Statton (AWS)
Monday 17:30-18:30 @ Level 1, Lafite 4, Wynn
Discover the full power of HPC on AWS and remove infrastructure constraints

Summary: This talk is delivered in Italian. High performance computing (HPC) has always been about utilizing the most effective technologies to solve the world’s most complex problems. However, many HPC users have been constrained by the need to purchase and deploy on-premises infrastructure to gain access to the best technologies for their applications. AWS HPC helps you innovate beyond the limitations of on-premises HPC infrastructure. In this talk, see how to create and manage HPC environments with AWS ParallelCluster, access 400 Gbps networking with Elastic Fabric Adapter, and chose from over 500 Amazon EC2 instances to run your largest, most complex HPC workloads in the cloud.

Session Type: Geo Talk | Session ID: GEO032

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Nicola Venuti, Principal Specialist Solution Architect (AWS)
Tuesday 14:30-14:50 @ Level 1, Casanova Foyer- AWS Global Lounge, Venetian
Best practices for high performance computing in the cloud

Summary: Join this workshop to gain a solid skills foundation to run common high performance computing (HPC) workloads using cloud technologies. Start with a primer on modern cloud foundations and how they map to common HPC concepts. Then, get a deeper view into how to use cloud-native technologies, such as object storage, in HPC workflows. Get hands-on experience setting up your own cluster in the cloud and running a sample application. You must bring your laptop to participate.

Session Type: Workshop | Session ID: CMP305

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Lowell Wofford and Maxime Hugues (AWS)
Wednesday 9:15-11:15 @ Level 3, Premier 315, MGM Grand
Solve complex problems with pay-as-you-go infrastructure

Summary: In this session, learn how high performance computing (HPC) on AWS makes extreme-scale compute possible so that you can solve some of the world’s toughest environmental, social, health, and scientific problems. Learn about infrastructure that can help you design your products faster with simulations, predict the weather, detect seismic activity with greater precision, and much more. Discover how to run your massively parallel workloads and analyze more data with virtually unlimited infrastructure and nearly endless scale. Finally, learn how you can simply turn it off when you’re done and start it up when you’re ready to begin again, helping you optimize your HPC costs.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: CMP205

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Ian Colle (AWS) | Chen Su, Sr Director of HPC (Eli Lilly)
Wednesday 14:30-15:30 @ Level 1, Terrace 151, MGM Grand
Solve complex problems with pay-as-you-go infrastructure (Overflow room)

Summary: In this session, learn how high performance computing (HPC) on AWS makes extreme-scale compute possible so that you can solve some of the world’s toughest environmental, social, health, and scientific problems. Learn about infrastructure that can help you design your products faster with simulations, predict the weather, detect seismic activity with greater precision, and much more. Discover how to run your massively parallel workloads and analyze more data with virtually unlimited infrastructure and nearly endless scale. Finally, learn how you can simply turn it off when you’re done and start it up when you’re ready to begin again, helping you optimize your HPC costs.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: CMP205-OF

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Ian Colle (AWS) | Chen Su, Sr Director of HPC (Eli Lilly)
Wednesday 14:30-15:30 @ Level 1, Summit 231, Content Hub, Red Screen, Caesars Forum
Redefining Supercomputing on AWS

Summary: As the world strives to solve increasingly complex problems, single on-premises general-purpose supercomputers can fall short. In this session, you’ll learn how AWS is reimagining supercomputing to provide scientists and engineers more access to world-class facilities and technology. Whether it’s finding new life-saving drugs, localizing natural disaster prediction, or designing airplanes powered by alternative energy sources, High Performance Computing (HPC) is transforming our lives. Nearly everything we use, such as our cars and electronics, are designed using supercomputers, a class of HPC computing. Supercomputers divide a single problem across hundreds to thousands of servers to perform high-speed calculations that reduce overall time to solution.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: CMP222

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Heidi Poxon and Neil Ashton (AWS)
Wednesday 19:45-20:45 @ Level 3, South, South Seas A, Mandalay Bay
Elastic Fabric Adapter advanced topics for AI/ML and HPC

Summary: Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA), built on the Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD) protocol, is the foundation for scaling message passing interface (MPI) and NVIDIA Collective Communications Library–based high performance computing (HPC) and machine learning (ML) codes at AWS. This builders’ session addresses application scaling challenges and is led by an AWS EFA team principal engineer. It includes a roundtable-style discussion, so come prepared to share your thoughts and questions. You must bring your laptop to participate.

Session Type: Builders | Session ID: CMP407

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Evan Bollig, Matt Koop, Maxime Hugues, Pierre-Yves Aquilanti, Timothy Brown (AWS)
Wednesday 19:45-20:45 @ Level 1, Latour 7, Wynn


Energy
Ephemeral HPC to accelerate energy and utility workflows

Summary: Energy and utility companies use high performance computing (HPC) to design and optimize operations. Elastic, cloud-based HPC resources can dynamically provide the computational power needed for simulations on demand by creating reusable pipelines. HPC on AWS can be instantiated with the nodes and memory to optimize turnaround time while keeping the results sufficiently accurate. This allows you to make decisions about tradeoffs between cost, run time, and accuracy resolution based on your organization’s priorities. This chalk talk explores how to create HPC using infrastructure as code with AWS CloudFormation, Amazon EC2 Image Builder, Amazon FSx for Lustre, and inherited IAM permissions.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: ENU401

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Abhishek Naik, Senior Solutions Architect and Kyle Jones, Sr. Manager (AWS)
Tuesday 13:15-14:15 @ Level 1, Room 104, MGM Grand


FSI
High-throughput computing for financial risk management and modeling

Summary: In this chalk talk, explore how financial services industry organizations can achieve greater elasticity, higher throughput, and significant cost savings with a cloud-native high-throughput computing (HTC) grid solution built on AWS core services. Using modular architecture made up of managed services such as Amazon EKS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SQS, and Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, HTC grid solutions dynamically scale computing resources to meet the demanding throughput requirements of risk-analytics workloads. Join the talk to learn about the modular architecture, scalability, and performance you can achieve with this solution.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: CMP331-R

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Kirill Bogdanov, Sr. Solutions Architect and Mark Norton, Principal EC2 & HPC Specialist (AWS)
Monday 10:00-11:00 @ Level 1, Room 101, MGM Grand


Geospatial
How AWS and aerospace and geospatial companies are rethinking HPC

Summary: In this session, learn about model-based design and the high-performance computing (HPC) this drives. Hear from AWS customers who are rethinking and reworking their HPC workloads on AWS with a focus on innovation, agility, and the use of deep learning in combination with HPC. Additionally, AWS experts present new approaches for the convergence of model-based design, machine learning, data analytics, and HPC with application to aerospace and engineering challenges.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: CMP220

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Barry Bolding (AWS) | Colin Haubrich (Wisk Aero)
Friday 8:30-9:30 @ Level 1, Forum 113, Caesars Forum
How AWS and aerospace and geospatial companies are rethinking HPC (Overflow room)

Summary: In this session, learn about model-based design and the high-performance computing (HPC) this drives. Hear from AWS customers who are rethinking and reworking their HPC workloads on AWS with a focus on innovation, agility, and the use of deep learning in combination with HPC. Additionally, AWS experts present new approaches for the convergence of model-based design, machine learning, data analytics, and HPC with application to aerospace and engineering challenges.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: CMP220-OF

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Barry Bolding (AWS) | Colin Haubrich (Wisk Aero)
Friday 8:30-9:30 @ Level 2, Venetian E, Content Hub, Yellow Screen, Venetian


Graviton
How to maximize HPC productivity, performance, and portability (sponsored by NVIDIA)

Summary: In this session, learn how NVIDIA enables high-performance computing (HPC) on over 200 Amazon EC2 instance types. NVIDIA provides a multi-platform, standards-compliant, vendor-supported solution for HPC application development that supports all major programming models. Its proven compilers, libraries, and software tools support AWS Graviton to maximize developer productivity, enable hardware platform choice, and facilitate an optimal price-performance solution for HPC applications in the cloud. This presentation is brought to you by NVIDIA, an AWS Partner.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: PRT220

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John Linford, Technical Product Manager CPU Software (NVIDIA)
Monday 16:00-17:00 @ Level 3 South, South Seas C, Mandalay Bay
Coding for multiple CPU architectures using lessons learned in HPC

Summary: This chalk talk details best practices and lessons learned about coding for multiple architectures (x86 and AWS Graviton) from the last ten years in the high performance computing (HPC) community. Amazon EC2 has seen a significant rise in the adoption of Arm-based AWS Graviton instances. When supporting multiple architectures, it’s important to ensure a consistent developer experience. When workloads run on multiple architectures, platform nuances and commonalities must be addressed to forge a transparent developer environment. Come learn how HPC development techniques can be applied to almost any compute workload and how to effectively code for multiple compute infrastructure architectures.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: CMP325

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Arthur Petitpierre and Karthik Raman (AWS)
Tuesday 16:15-17:15 @ Level 1, Forum 126, Caesars Forum


HPC
Deep dive on accelerating HPC and ML with Amazon FSx

Summary: File services are often asked to deliver performant capabilities with low latencies for compute-intensive workloads or high IOPS for data-intensive applications. In this session, learn best practices for choosing how to rightsize your performance, reduce latency, increase throughput, and optimize cost. The Amazon FSx family of managed file storage services provides feature sets and performance profiles supporting a variety of use cases. Many workloads like machine learning (ML), high performance computing (HPC), video rendering, and financial analytics require cost optimizations and deployment options. This session also shares tips and best practices for migrating performant-dependent use cases to AWS.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: STG343

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Eric Anderson, GM, Lustre / File Cache and Shrinath Kurdekar, Principal Solutions Architect (AWS)
Monday 10:00-11:00 @ Level 1 North, South Pacific F, Mandalay Bay
Accelerating semiconductor design, simulation, and verification

Summary: AWS offers many solutions to design, simulate, and verify the advanced semiconductor devices that are the foundation of modern technology. Electronic design automation (EDA) workloads are critical to the success of chip development. EDA requires computing for digital and analog simulations, logic synthesis, design rule checks, and physical verification. In this session, discover best practices for running HPC or EDA workloads on AWS using Amazon EC2. Hear from Arm about how they use AWS to accelerate EDA workloads in the cloud using Arm-based AWS Graviton instances. Also, Marvell shares how they’re using EDA in the cloud to scale their highly differentiated cloud-optimized silicon solutions for customers like AWS.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: CMP320

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Mark Galbraith, VP Productivity Engineering (Arm) | William Cornwell, VP of Engineering (Marvell)
Monday 10:45-11:45 @ Level 1, Grand 115, MGM Grand
Modernizing HPC workloads using AWS services

Summary: For decades, industries have been using high-performance computing (HPC) to solve problems that are not solvable on a single machine or to shorten problem-solving run time. Traditionally, HPC workloads are launched and managed on the master node, which represents a single point of failure. Building HPC clusters on AWS allows you to keep the same user experience of launching, monitoring, and managing an HPC workload. In this chalk talk, learn how to launch, monitor, and manage an HPC workload using native AWS services, following a seismic processing problem as an example.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: ENU402

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Cyril Lagrange, Solution Architect and Kun Jiao, Energy Principal Solutions Architect (AWS)
Monday 15:15-16:15 @ Level 1, Academy 412, Caesars Forum
The convergence of HPC and ML on AWS

Summary: Discover the power of combining traditional HPC simulations with AI/ML services to activate new workflows and scientific breakthroughs. In this chalk talk, learn about combined AWS HPC and ML solutions that have evolved to state-of-the-art supercomputing models, powered by AWS services like Elastic Fabric Adapter, AWS ParallelCluster, Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon FSx for Lustre, and AWS Batch. Learn how AWS trained and deployed a new open-source PyTorch-based protein folding model called OpenFold Single Sequence to accelerate drug discovery on AWS using HPC-grade distributed systems. Dive deep on technology innovations and architecture optimizations for HPC-scale ML use cases.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: CMP326

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Ankur Srivastava and Shubha Kumbadakone (AWS) | Sachin Kadyan, OpenFold ML Researcher (Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University)
Monday 16:00-17:00 @ Level 3, 301, MGM Grand
How to maximize HPC productivity, performance, and portability (sponsored by NVIDIA)

Summary: In this session, learn how NVIDIA enables high-performance computing (HPC) on over 200 Amazon EC2 instance types. NVIDIA provides a multi-platform, standards-compliant, vendor-supported solution for HPC application development that supports all major programming models. Its proven compilers, libraries, and software tools support AWS Graviton to maximize developer productivity, enable hardware platform choice, and facilitate an optimal price-performance solution for HPC applications in the cloud. This presentation is brought to you by NVIDIA, an AWS Partner.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: PRT220

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John Linford, Technical Product Manager CPU Software (NVIDIA)
Monday 16:00-17:00 @ Level 3 South, South Seas C, Mandalay Bay
Ephemeral HPC to accelerate energy and utility workflows

Summary: Energy and utility companies use high performance computing (HPC) to design and optimize operations. Elastic, cloud-based HPC resources can dynamically provide the computational power needed for simulations on demand by creating reusable pipelines. HPC on AWS can be instantiated with the nodes and memory to optimize turnaround time while keeping the results sufficiently accurate. This allows you to make decisions about tradeoffs between cost, run time, and accuracy resolution based on your organization’s priorities. This chalk talk explores how to create HPC using infrastructure as code with AWS CloudFormation, Amazon EC2 Image Builder, Amazon FSx for Lustre, and inherited IAM permissions.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: ENU401

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Abhishek Naik, Senior Solutions Architect and Kyle Jones, Sr. Manager (AWS)
Tuesday 13:15-14:15 @ Level 1, Room 104, MGM Grand
Discover the full power of HPC on AWS and remove infrastructure constraints

Summary: This talk is delivered in Italian. High performance computing (HPC) has always been about utilizing the most effective technologies to solve the world’s most complex problems. However, many HPC users have been constrained by the need to purchase and deploy on-premises infrastructure to gain access to the best technologies for their applications. AWS HPC helps you innovate beyond the limitations of on-premises HPC infrastructure. In this talk, see how to create and manage HPC environments with AWS ParallelCluster, access 400 Gbps networking with Elastic Fabric Adapter, and chose from over 500 Amazon EC2 instances to run your largest, most complex HPC workloads in the cloud.

Session Type: Geo Talk | Session ID: GEO032

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Nicola Venuti, Principal Specialist Solution Architect (AWS)
Tuesday 14:30-14:50 @ Level 1, Casanova Foyer- AWS Global Lounge, Venetian
Best practices for high performance computing in the cloud

Summary: Join this workshop to gain a solid skills foundation to run common high performance computing (HPC) workloads using cloud technologies. Start with a primer on modern cloud foundations and how they map to common HPC concepts. Then, get a deeper view into how to use cloud-native technologies, such as object storage, in HPC workflows. Get hands-on experience setting up your own cluster in the cloud and running a sample application. You must bring your laptop to participate.

Session Type: Workshop | Session ID: CMP305

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Lowell Wofford and Maxime Hugues (AWS)
Wednesday 9:15-11:15 @ Level 3, Premier 315, MGM Grand
A day in the life of a cloud-empowered aerodynamics engineer

Summary: Imagine yourself as an aerodynamics engineer who uses computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to design new cars and planes, and you want the fastest turnaround times while retaining accuracy. This interactive chalk talk walks through techniques for optimizing complex workflows by combining AWS capabilities with optimization tricks to reduce simulation time for popular CFD codes such as OpenFOAM and Siemens Simcenter STAR-CCM+.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: CMP402

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Neil Ashton and Sean Smith (AWS)
Wednesday 10:45-11:45 @ Level 1, Academy 412, Caesars Forum
How Intel & AWS collaborate to solve some of the world’s most urgent issues (sponsored by Intel)

Summary: AWS and Intel are committed to solving the world’s most critical social and environmental challenges through the power of HPC. Intel and AWS have collaborated to deliver first-rate engineering, resources, and results to impact customers around the world. Join this session to hear from Harvard Cancer Center, IKTOS, and Good Chemistry Co., who have utilized the scalability and availability of cloud computing powered by Intel to address problems spanning from cancer to ‘forever chemicals’ in water. This presentation is brought to you by Intel, an AWS Partner.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: PRT278

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Tanner Marsh, Developer (HMS / VirtualFlow Project) | Arman Zaribafiyan, CEO (Good Chemistry)
Wednesday 13:45-14:45 @ Upper Convention Promenade, Cristal 7, Wynn
Solve complex problems with pay-as-you-go infrastructure

Summary: In this session, learn how high performance computing (HPC) on AWS makes extreme-scale compute possible so that you can solve some of the world’s toughest environmental, social, health, and scientific problems. Learn about infrastructure that can help you design your products faster with simulations, predict the weather, detect seismic activity with greater precision, and much more. Discover how to run your massively parallel workloads and analyze more data with virtually unlimited infrastructure and nearly endless scale. Finally, learn how you can simply turn it off when you’re done and start it up when you’re ready to begin again, helping you optimize your HPC costs.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: CMP205

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Ian Colle (AWS) | Chen Su, Sr Director of HPC (Eli Lilly)
Wednesday 14:30-15:30 @ Level 1, Terrace 151, MGM Grand
Solve complex problems with pay-as-you-go infrastructure (Overflow room)

Summary: In this session, learn how high performance computing (HPC) on AWS makes extreme-scale compute possible so that you can solve some of the world’s toughest environmental, social, health, and scientific problems. Learn about infrastructure that can help you design your products faster with simulations, predict the weather, detect seismic activity with greater precision, and much more. Discover how to run your massively parallel workloads and analyze more data with virtually unlimited infrastructure and nearly endless scale. Finally, learn how you can simply turn it off when you’re done and start it up when you’re ready to begin again, helping you optimize your HPC costs.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: CMP205-OF

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Ian Colle (AWS) | Chen Su, Sr Director of HPC (Eli Lilly)
Wednesday 14:30-15:30 @ Level 1, Summit 231, Content Hub, Red Screen, Caesars Forum
Redefining Supercomputing on AWS

Summary: As the world strives to solve increasingly complex problems, single on-premises general-purpose supercomputers can fall short. In this session, you’ll learn how AWS is reimagining supercomputing to provide scientists and engineers more access to world-class facilities and technology. Whether it’s finding new life-saving drugs, localizing natural disaster prediction, or designing airplanes powered by alternative energy sources, High Performance Computing (HPC) is transforming our lives. Nearly everything we use, such as our cars and electronics, are designed using supercomputers, a class of HPC computing. Supercomputers divide a single problem across hundreds to thousands of servers to perform high-speed calculations that reduce overall time to solution.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: CMP222

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Heidi Poxon and Neil Ashton (AWS)
Wednesday 19:45-20:45 @ Level 3, South, South Seas A, Mandalay Bay
Faster drug discovery design with WEKA on AWS (sponsored by WEKA)

Summary: New methods like cryo-EM are enabling rapid advances in drug discovery. Using the right analysis workflow and tools are critical to success. In this lightning talk, join WEKA and Clovertex to learn how you can accelerate your drug design workflows using the WEKA data platform and Clovertex’s services on AWS. This presentation is brought to you by WEKA, an AWS Partner.

Session Type: Lightning Talk | Session ID: PRT107

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Baris Guler, Principal Architect (AWS)
Thursday 12:35-12:50 @ Hall B, Expo, Lightning Theater 2 , Booth #3543,
How AWS and aerospace and geospatial companies are rethinking HPC

Summary: In this session, learn about model-based design and the high-performance computing (HPC) this drives. Hear from AWS customers who are rethinking and reworking their HPC workloads on AWS with a focus on innovation, agility, and the use of deep learning in combination with HPC. Additionally, AWS experts present new approaches for the convergence of model-based design, machine learning, data analytics, and HPC with application to aerospace and engineering challenges.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: CMP220

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Barry Bolding (AWS) | Colin Haubrich (Wisk Aero)
Friday 8:30-9:30 @ Level 1, Forum 113, Caesars Forum
How AWS and aerospace and geospatial companies are rethinking HPC (Overflow room)

Summary: In this session, learn about model-based design and the high-performance computing (HPC) this drives. Hear from AWS customers who are rethinking and reworking their HPC workloads on AWS with a focus on innovation, agility, and the use of deep learning in combination with HPC. Additionally, AWS experts present new approaches for the convergence of model-based design, machine learning, data analytics, and HPC with application to aerospace and engineering challenges.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: CMP220-OF

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Barry Bolding (AWS) | Colin Haubrich (Wisk Aero)
Friday 8:30-9:30 @ Level 2, Venetian E, Content Hub, Yellow Screen, Venetian


HTC
High-throughput computing for financial risk management and modeling

Summary: In this chalk talk, explore how financial services industry organizations can achieve greater elasticity, higher throughput, and significant cost savings with a cloud-native high-throughput computing (HTC) grid solution built on AWS core services. Using modular architecture made up of managed services such as Amazon EKS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SQS, and Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, HTC grid solutions dynamically scale computing resources to meet the demanding throughput requirements of risk-analytics workloads. Join the talk to learn about the modular architecture, scalability, and performance you can achieve with this solution.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: CMP331-R

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Kirill Bogdanov, Sr. Solutions Architect and Mark Norton, Principal EC2 & HPC Specialist (AWS)
Monday 10:00-11:00 @ Level 1, Room 101, MGM Grand


Impact
How Intel & AWS collaborate to solve some of the world’s most urgent issues (sponsored by Intel)

Summary: AWS and Intel are committed to solving the world’s most critical social and environmental challenges through the power of HPC. Intel and AWS have collaborated to deliver first-rate engineering, resources, and results to impact customers around the world. Join this session to hear from Harvard Cancer Center, IKTOS, and Good Chemistry Co., who have utilized the scalability and availability of cloud computing powered by Intel to address problems spanning from cancer to ‘forever chemicals’ in water. This presentation is brought to you by Intel, an AWS Partner.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: PRT278

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Tanner Marsh, Developer (HMS / VirtualFlow Project) | Arman Zaribafiyan, CEO (Good Chemistry)
Wednesday 13:45-14:45 @ Upper Convention Promenade, Cristal 7, Wynn


Kubernetes
AWS Batch ask me anything

Summary: In this interactive builders’ session, the leading AWS Batch product manager and team answer common questions about the service. Get the opportunity to provide feedback to the people planning the next set of AWS Batch features. Come prepared to share your questions and thoughts. You must bring your laptop to participate.

Session Type: Builders | Session ID: CMP317-R

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Jo Adegbola, Matt Vaughn, Naina Thangaraj, Tom Burggraf, Vinothkumar Narasimhan (AWS)
Monday 10:45-11:45 @ Level 1, Latour 7, Wynn
Data analysis with Amazon EKS and AWS Batch

Summary: In this session, you'll gain an understanding for the recently added AWS Batch support for managing and scheduling large-scale data analysis using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Join this hands-on workshop and learn AWS Batch fundamental concepts, and how it works together with your other AWS services running within EKS. You will deploy an EKS cluster, leverage AWS Batch to managed pods, and train a simple machine learning model. You must bring your laptop to participate in hands-on exercises.

Session Type: Workshop | Session ID: CMP335-R

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Angel Pizarro and Maxime Hugues (AWS)
Tuesday 14:00-16:00 @ Level 3, Murano 3204, Venetian
AWS Batch on Amazon EKS: Full lifecycle job management for batch workloads

Summary: Organizations are using Kubernetes to manage their microservices, and it’s natural to want to use it for everything else, including the batch-type workloads in HPC, AI/ML, and large-scale data processing. Customer feedback led AWS to connect AWS Batch to Amazon EKS. The result is a fully managed service for scaling Kubernetes nodes, placing pods, and supporting job completion— the whole lifecycle. In this session, learn how to easily run batch jobs at scale.

Session Type: Demo | Session ID: CMP003

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Angel Pizarro (AWS)
Tuesday 17:00-17:20 @ Hall B, Expo, AWS Village, Village Theater, Booth #1335, Venetian
Data analysis with Amazon EKS and AWS Batch

Summary: In this session, you'll gain an understanding for the recently added AWS Batch support for managing and scheduling large-scale data analysis using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Join this hands-on workshop and learn AWS Batch fundamental concepts, and how it works together with your other AWS services running within EKS. You will deploy an EKS cluster, leverage AWS Batch to managed pods, and train a simple machine learning model. You must bring your laptop to participate in hands-on exercises.

Session Type: Workshop | Session ID: CMP335-R1

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Angel Pizarro and Maxime Hugues (AWS)
Wednesday 11:30-13:30 @ Level 3, Murano 3204, Venetian
Deep dive on using AWS Batch with container-based clusters

Summary: In this chalk talk, learn how to efficiently and cost-effectively run your high-scale, compute-intensive workloads using the capabilities of AWS Batch. Scaling containers for batch workloads like machine learning training, simulations, and large dataset processing in a timely fashion is challenging. AWS Batch is a fully managed service for orchestrating AWS compute resources for batch processing or parallel computing at any scale. AWS Batch can schedule, orchestrate, and run your jobs on container-based clusters and automatically scale resources to match your job requirements.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: CMP329-R

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Ala Abunijem and Angel Pizarro (AWS)
Wednesday 16:45-17:45 @ Level 1, Montrachet 1, Wynn
AWS Batch ask me anything

Summary: In this interactive builders’ session, the leading AWS Batch product manager and team answer common questions about the service. Get the opportunity to provide feedback to the people planning the next set of AWS Batch features. Come prepared to share your questions and thoughts. You must bring your laptop to participate.

Session Type: Builders | Session ID: CMP317-R1

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Jo Adegbola, Matt Vaughn, Naina Thangaraj, Tom Burggraf, Vinothkumar Narasimhan (AWS)
Thursday 14:45-15:45 @ Level 1, Latour 7, Wynn
Deep dive on using AWS Batch with container-based clusters

Summary: In this chalk talk, learn how to efficiently and cost-effectively run your high-scale, compute-intensive workloads using the capabilities of AWS Batch. Scaling containers for batch workloads like machine learning training, simulations, and large dataset processing in a timely fashion is challenging. AWS Batch is a fully managed service for orchestrating AWS compute resources for batch processing or parallel computing at any scale. AWS Batch can schedule, orchestrate, and run your jobs on container-based clusters and automatically scale resources to match your job requirements.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: CMP329-R1

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Ala Abunijem and Angel Pizarro (AWS)
Friday 10:00-11:00 @ Level 1, Forum 110, Caesars Forum


Lustre
Deep dive on accelerating HPC and ML with Amazon FSx

Summary: File services are often asked to deliver performant capabilities with low latencies for compute-intensive workloads or high IOPS for data-intensive applications. In this session, learn best practices for choosing how to rightsize your performance, reduce latency, increase throughput, and optimize cost. The Amazon FSx family of managed file storage services provides feature sets and performance profiles supporting a variety of use cases. Many workloads like machine learning (ML), high performance computing (HPC), video rendering, and financial analytics require cost optimizations and deployment options. This session also shares tips and best practices for migrating performant-dependent use cases to AWS.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: STG343

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Eric Anderson, GM, Lustre / File Cache and Shrinath Kurdekar, Principal Solutions Architect (AWS)
Monday 10:00-11:00 @ Level 1 North, South Pacific F, Mandalay Bay


Machine Learning
A framework for physics-informed neural networks on PyTorch

Summary: In this chalk talk, learn about a new physics-informed neural network (PINNs) framework for simulations on PyTorch for fast-to-compute and highly accurate models for various applications. The computational cost associated with multi-physics simulations often impose serious limitations for design space exploration, optimization, and uncertainty quantification. Learn how to apply methods for solving partial differential equations that govern the physics of engineering systems using PINNs and other relevant applications in engineering. This was developed and implemented by AWS in collaboration with the University of Central Florida.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: CMP211-R

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Srinivas Tadepalli, Head of HPC GTM (AWS) | Ana Simoes, Principal Specialist, ML Frameworks, Amazon (Amazon)
Monday 10:00-11:00 @ Level 1, Forum 104, Caesars Forum
Deep dive on accelerating HPC and ML with Amazon FSx

Summary: File services are often asked to deliver performant capabilities with low latencies for compute-intensive workloads or high IOPS for data-intensive applications. In this session, learn best practices for choosing how to rightsize your performance, reduce latency, increase throughput, and optimize cost. The Amazon FSx family of managed file storage services provides feature sets and performance profiles supporting a variety of use cases. Many workloads like machine learning (ML), high performance computing (HPC), video rendering, and financial analytics require cost optimizations and deployment options. This session also shares tips and best practices for migrating performant-dependent use cases to AWS.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: STG343

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Eric Anderson, GM, Lustre / File Cache and Shrinath Kurdekar, Principal Solutions Architect (AWS)
Monday 10:00-11:00 @ Level 1 North, South Pacific F, Mandalay Bay
A framework for physics-informed neural networks on PyTorch

Summary: In this chalk talk, learn about a new physics-informed neural network (PINNs) framework for simulations on PyTorch for fast-to-compute and highly accurate models for various applications. The computational cost associated with multi-physics simulations often impose serious limitations for design space exploration, optimization, and uncertainty quantification. Learn how to apply methods for solving partial differential equations that govern the physics of engineering systems using PINNs and other relevant applications in engineering. This was developed and implemented by AWS in collaboration with the University of Central Florida.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: CMP211-R1

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Srinivas Tadepalli, Head of HPC GTM (AWS) | Ana Simoes, Principal Specialist, ML Frameworks (Amazon)
Monday 13:45-14:45 @ Level 1, Boulevard 169, MGM Grand
The convergence of HPC and ML on AWS

Summary: Discover the power of combining traditional HPC simulations with AI/ML services to activate new workflows and scientific breakthroughs. In this chalk talk, learn about combined AWS HPC and ML solutions that have evolved to state-of-the-art supercomputing models, powered by AWS services like Elastic Fabric Adapter, AWS ParallelCluster, Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon FSx for Lustre, and AWS Batch. Learn how AWS trained and deployed a new open-source PyTorch-based protein folding model called OpenFold Single Sequence to accelerate drug discovery on AWS using HPC-grade distributed systems. Dive deep on technology innovations and architecture optimizations for HPC-scale ML use cases.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: CMP326

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Ankur Srivastava and Shubha Kumbadakone (AWS) | Sachin Kadyan, OpenFold ML Researcher (Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University)
Monday 16:00-17:00 @ Level 3, 301, MGM Grand
Elastic Fabric Adapter advanced topics for AI/ML and HPC

Summary: Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA), built on the Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD) protocol, is the foundation for scaling message passing interface (MPI) and NVIDIA Collective Communications Library–based high performance computing (HPC) and machine learning (ML) codes at AWS. This builders’ session addresses application scaling challenges and is led by an AWS EFA team principal engineer. It includes a roundtable-style discussion, so come prepared to share your thoughts and questions. You must bring your laptop to participate.

Session Type: Builders | Session ID: CMP407

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Evan Bollig, Matt Koop, Maxime Hugues, Pierre-Yves Aquilanti, Timothy Brown (AWS)
Wednesday 19:45-20:45 @ Level 1, Latour 7, Wynn


Media and Entertainment
Solving problems in TV broadcasting and production with HPC and ML

Summary: In this chalk talk, learn about unexpected developments in broadcast video production that allowed major studio production to move to high performance computing (HPC) on AWS. As part of the solution deep dive, get a refresher on the AWS Nitro System. Learn about Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA), a network for Amazon EC2 instances and how they enable scalable AI/ML model training for advanced HPC workloads that go beyond broadcasting to drug discovery, weather, and other use cases.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: CMP316

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Brendan Bouffler and Evan Statton (AWS)
Monday 17:30-18:30 @ Level 1, Lafite 4, Wynn


Networking
Solving problems in TV broadcasting and production with HPC and ML

Summary: In this chalk talk, learn about unexpected developments in broadcast video production that allowed major studio production to move to high performance computing (HPC) on AWS. As part of the solution deep dive, get a refresher on the AWS Nitro System. Learn about Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA), a network for Amazon EC2 instances and how they enable scalable AI/ML model training for advanced HPC workloads that go beyond broadcasting to drug discovery, weather, and other use cases.

Session Type: Chalk Talk | Session ID: CMP316

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Brendan Bouffler and Evan Statton (AWS)
Monday 17:30-18:30 @ Level 1, Lafite 4, Wynn


Open Data
How AWS and aerospace and geospatial companies are rethinking HPC

Summary: In this session, learn about model-based design and the high-performance computing (HPC) this drives. Hear from AWS customers who are rethinking and reworking their HPC workloads on AWS with a focus on innovation, agility, and the use of deep learning in combination with HPC. Additionally, AWS experts present new approaches for the convergence of model-based design, machine learning, data analytics, and HPC with application to aerospace and engineering challenges.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: CMP220

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Barry Bolding (AWS) | Colin Haubrich (Wisk Aero)
Friday 8:30-9:30 @ Level 1, Forum 113, Caesars Forum
How AWS and aerospace and geospatial companies are rethinking HPC (Overflow room)

Summary: In this session, learn about model-based design and the high-performance computing (HPC) this drives. Hear from AWS customers who are rethinking and reworking their HPC workloads on AWS with a focus on innovation, agility, and the use of deep learning in combination with HPC. Additionally, AWS experts present new approaches for the convergence of model-based design, machine learning, data analytics, and HPC with application to aerospace and engineering challenges.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: CMP220-OF

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Barry Bolding (AWS) | Colin Haubrich (Wisk Aero)
Friday 8:30-9:30 @ Level 2, Venetian E, Content Hub, Yellow Screen, Venetian


ParallelCluster
Discover the full power of HPC on AWS and remove infrastructure constraints

Summary: This talk is delivered in Italian. High performance computing (HPC) has always been about utilizing the most effective technologies to solve the world’s most complex problems. However, many HPC users have been constrained by the need to purchase and deploy on-premises infrastructure to gain access to the best technologies for their applications. AWS HPC helps you innovate beyond the limitations of on-premises HPC infrastructure. In this talk, see how to create and manage HPC environments with AWS ParallelCluster, access 400 Gbps networking with Elastic Fabric Adapter, and chose from over 500 Amazon EC2 instances to run your largest, most complex HPC workloads in the cloud.

Session Type: Geo Talk | Session ID: GEO032

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Nicola Venuti, Principal Specialist Solution Architect (AWS)
Tuesday 14:30-14:50 @ Level 1, Casanova Foyer- AWS Global Lounge, Venetian
Best practices for high performance computing in the cloud

Summary: Join this workshop to gain a solid skills foundation to run common high performance computing (HPC) workloads using cloud technologies. Start with a primer on modern cloud foundations and how they map to common HPC concepts. Then, get a deeper view into how to use cloud-native technologies, such as object storage, in HPC workflows. Get hands-on experience setting up your own cluster in the cloud and running a sample application. You must bring your laptop to participate.

Session Type: Workshop | Session ID: CMP305

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Lowell Wofford and Maxime Hugues (AWS)
Wednesday 9:15-11:15 @ Level 3, Premier 315, MGM Grand
Solve complex problems with pay-as-you-go infrastructure

Summary: In this session, learn how high performance computing (HPC) on AWS makes extreme-scale compute possible so that you can solve some of the world’s toughest environmental, social, health, and scientific problems. Learn about infrastructure that can help you design your products faster with simulations, predict the weather, detect seismic activity with greater precision, and much more. Discover how to run your massively parallel workloads and analyze more data with virtually unlimited infrastructure and nearly endless scale. Finally, learn how you can simply turn it off when you’re done and start it up when you’re ready to begin again, helping you optimize your HPC costs.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: CMP205

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Ian Colle (AWS) | Chen Su, Sr Director of HPC (Eli Lilly)
Wednesday 14:30-15:30 @ Level 1, Terrace 151, MGM Grand
Solve complex problems with pay-as-you-go infrastructure (Overflow room)

Summary: In this session, learn how high performance computing (HPC) on AWS makes extreme-scale compute possible so that you can solve some of the world’s toughest environmental, social, health, and scientific problems. Learn about infrastructure that can help you design your products faster with simulations, predict the weather, detect seismic activity with greater precision, and much more. Discover how to run your massively parallel workloads and analyze more data with virtually unlimited infrastructure and nearly endless scale. Finally, learn how you can simply turn it off when you’re done and start it up when you’re ready to begin again, helping you optimize your HPC costs.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: CMP205-OF

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Ian Colle (AWS) | Chen Su, Sr Director of HPC (Eli Lilly)
Wednesday 14:30-15:30 @ Level 1, Summit 231, Content Hub, Red Screen, Caesars Forum
Redefining Supercomputing on AWS

Summary: As the world strives to solve increasingly complex problems, single on-premises general-purpose supercomputers can fall short. In this session, you’ll learn how AWS is reimagining supercomputing to provide scientists and engineers more access to world-class facilities and technology. Whether it’s finding new life-saving drugs, localizing natural disaster prediction, or designing airplanes powered by alternative energy sources, High Performance Computing (HPC) is transforming our lives. Nearly everything we use, such as our cars and electronics, are designed using supercomputers, a class of HPC computing. Supercomputers divide a single problem across hundreds to thousands of servers to perform high-speed calculations that reduce overall time to solution.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: CMP222

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Heidi Poxon and Neil Ashton (AWS)
Wednesday 19:45-20:45 @ Level 3, South, South Seas A, Mandalay Bay
Elastic Fabric Adapter advanced topics for AI/ML and HPC

Summary: Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA), built on the Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD) protocol, is the foundation for scaling message passing interface (MPI) and NVIDIA Collective Communications Library–based high performance computing (HPC) and machine learning (ML) codes at AWS. This builders’ session addresses application scaling challenges and is led by an AWS EFA team principal engineer. It includes a roundtable-style discussion, so come prepared to share your thoughts and questions. You must bring your laptop to participate.

Session Type: Builders | Session ID: CMP407

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Evan Bollig, Matt Koop, Maxime Hugues, Pierre-Yves Aquilanti, Timothy Brown (AWS)
Wednesday 19:45-20:45 @ Level 1, Latour 7, Wynn
How AWS and aerospace and geospatial companies are rethinking HPC

Summary: In this session, learn about model-based design and the high-performance computing (HPC) this drives. Hear from AWS customers who are rethinking and reworking their HPC workloads on AWS with a focus on innovation, agility, and the use of deep learning in combination with HPC. Additionally, AWS experts present new approaches for the convergence of model-based design, machine learning, data analytics, and HPC with application to aerospace and engineering challenges.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: CMP220

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Barry Bolding (AWS) | Colin Haubrich (Wisk Aero)
Friday 8:30-9:30 @ Level 1, Forum 113, Caesars Forum
How AWS and aerospace and geospatial companies are rethinking HPC (Overflow room)

Summary: In this session, learn about model-based design and the high-performance computing (HPC) this drives. Hear from AWS customers who are rethinking and reworking their HPC workloads on AWS with a focus on innovation, agility, and the use of deep learning in combination with HPC. Additionally, AWS experts present new approaches for the convergence of model-based design, machine learning, data analytics, and HPC with application to aerospace and engineering challenges.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: CMP220-OF

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Barry Bolding (AWS) | Colin Haubrich (Wisk Aero)
Friday 8:30-9:30 @ Level 2, Venetian E, Content Hub, Yellow Screen, Venetian


Storage
Deep dive on accelerating HPC and ML with Amazon FSx

Summary: File services are often asked to deliver performant capabilities with low latencies for compute-intensive workloads or high IOPS for data-intensive applications. In this session, learn best practices for choosing how to rightsize your performance, reduce latency, increase throughput, and optimize cost. The Amazon FSx family of managed file storage services provides feature sets and performance profiles supporting a variety of use cases. Many workloads like machine learning (ML), high performance computing (HPC), video rendering, and financial analytics require cost optimizations and deployment options. This session also shares tips and best practices for migrating performant-dependent use cases to AWS.

Session Type: Breakout | Session ID: STG343

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Eric Anderson, GM, Lustre / File Cache and Shrinath Kurdekar, Principal Solutions Architect (AWS)
Monday 10:00-11:00 @ Level 1 North, South Pacific F, Mandalay Bay
Faster drug discovery design with WEKA on AWS (sponsored by WEKA)

Summary: New methods like cryo-EM are enabling rapid advances in drug discovery. Using the right analysis workflow and tools are critical to success. In this lightning talk, join WEKA and Clovertex to learn how you can accelerate your drug design workflows using the WEKA data platform and Clovertex’s services on AWS. This presentation is brought to you by WEKA, an AWS Partner.

Session Type: Lightning Talk | Session ID: PRT107

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Baris Guler, Principal Architect (AWS)
Thursday 12:35-12:50 @ Hall B, Expo, Lightning Theater 2 , Booth #3543,