ATTENTION: This session requires advance signup to attend. For Online Schedule: Please utilize the RSVP link below the description to reserve your seat. For SXSW GO App: Use the RSVP 'Find a Timeslot' link. You must have a SXSW Interactive, Gold, or Platinum badge to attend, and, you must have an activated SXsocial account (social.sxsw.com) to reserve a seat. If you have any issues with signing up, please email support@sxsw.com. VERY IMPORTANT: Because of the limited space, we recommend you arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the published start time of this session. If you have not checked in at the room you RSVPed for at least five minutes prior to the session start time, you may lose your seat to an attendee in the waiting list line.
Prerequisites:
Javascript+REST experience desired. Experience in any scripting language will work, though.
What to Bring:
Github account and a laptop. Supercomputer and cloud accounts prov...
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ATTENTION: This session requires advance signup to attend. For Online Schedule: Please utilize the RSVP link below the description to reserve your seat. For SXSW GO App: Use the RSVP 'Find a Timeslot' link. You must have a SXSW Interactive, Gold, or Platinum badge to attend, and, you must have an activated SXsocial account (social.sxsw.com) to reserve a seat. If you have any issues with signing up, please email support@sxsw.com. VERY IMPORTANT: Because of the limited space, we recommend you arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the published start time of this session. If you have not checked in at the room you RSVPed for at least five minutes prior to the session start time, you may lose your seat to an attendee in the waiting list line.
Prerequisites:
Javascript+REST experience desired. Experience in any scripting language will work, though.
What to Bring:
Github account and a laptop. Supercomputer and cloud accounts provided.
Big science and big data have moved out of the research world and into our daily lives. Thankfully, much of the heavy lifting has been abstracted away by a rising community of startups offering everything from accounting and analytics, to techno dance parties as a service. The X-as-a-Service movement has the potential to dramatically change the way we think about problems, yet there will always be problems off the beaten path that beat us down. How do we tackle big data problems that don’t involve social media, eCommerce, and CRM? How can we use the public cloud and private data centers interchangeably? At SXSW, such problems are all in a day’s work for the Jedi on stage, but what about the rest of us?
In this 4 hour workshop we will look at how we are rethinking the way big data and computational science are conducted and get some hands-on experience approaching science as a service.
The tentative schedule is as follows:
9:30-9:45 ""Formalities"" - Welcome, ground rules, hand out accounts
9:45-10:30 ""Introductions"" - Introduce the concept of Science-as-a-Service and the Agave API platform.
10:30-10:45 Breather
10:45-12:00 ""Build a Beta"" - Break into small groups to build and share a sample science app
12:00-12:15 Breather
12:15-:12:45 ""Point, click, demo"" - short demo showing each group's app
12:45-1:15 ""Ready, set, scale"" - interactive session with attendees iterating on their apps and watching them scale and share their science
1:15-1:30 ""Schwag you very much"" - chotskies for the rock stars
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