Dr Parice Brandies1, Peter Kerney2, Dr Fabiana Santana3
1Principal Bioinformatician, RONIN
2ANZ Solution Architect Manager, Intel Australia
3Senior Solutions Architect, Science, Research & Education – Amazon Web Services, Federal Government, ACT, Worldwide Public Sector, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
With more and more researchers relying on big data analysis, having access to the right computational power is key in minimising time to the next big scientific breakthrough or discovery. The cloud provides many great opportunities for research, both in terms of its almost unlimited capacity of compute and storage, as well as the ability to offer access to all of the latest and greatest hardware.
RONIN is a user-friendly web application that enables researchers to easily utilise the power of cloud computing for their analyses without any prior cloud experience. RONIN is built on top of AWS, so researchers have access to all of the latest Intel processors and can take advantage of the capacity of AWS to scale their analyses and reach research outcomes faster than ever before.
In this session you will learn how RONIN, AWS and Intel assisted researchers at the University of Sydney to accelerate their genomics workloads, helping to conserve some of Australia’s most threatened species.
Biographies:
Dr Parice Brandies is the Principal Bioinformatician at RONIN. Parice completed her PhD at the University of Sydney in the field of genomics and bioinformatics. Her research focussed on how genomic technologies could be used as a tool to assist in the conservation of threatened Australian species. She is passionate about the opportunities cloud can bring to all fields of research and her mission is to help empower other researchers around the globe to accelerate their own workflows and harness the extraordinary power of the cloud with RONIN.
Peter Kerney manages the Enterprise Solution Architect team with Intel Australia. This team works closely with end users and solution providers to architect solutions that support new Intel platforms and optimised workloads. Peter has extensive experience in a number of markets and technologies including high performance computing, visualisation, broadcast, defence and simulation.
Dr Fabiana Santana is a Senior Solutions Architect working with Science, Research & Education customers based in the ACT. Fabiana works with government agencies, universities, and research organisations to help define their research and technical strategy and deliver key projects using AWS. She has extensive leadership experience; in Australia, she was the Head of the School of Information Technology and Systems at the University of Canberra and a Senior Manager at the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI). In Brazil, she was the Head of the School of Computer Science at a Federal University and a Senior Manager in the Banking Industry. Fabiana is a computer scientist with a PhD in electrical engineering and a Masters in parallel computing/HPC. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Elsevier Ecological Informatics journal and contributes to other journals in Biodiversity and Climate Change modelling.