Colloquium Details
Amazon Web Service's Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) in academic, scientific and university computing
| Author: | Jinesh Varia Amazon Web Services |
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| Date: | February 19, 2008 |
| Time: | 15:30 |
| Location: | 220 Deschutes |
| Host: | Mike Hennessy |
Abstract
Jinesh Varia will describe how Amazon's Utility Computing Services provides a scalable cloud of computing environment for Storage, querying and computation to do innovative things. Specifically, Jinesh will talk about Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Hosted Virtualization on-demand) that allows requisition of machines on-demand by simple web service call, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Distributed Data Store) which is infinite storage in the sky and the newly launched Amazon SimpleDB (light weight attribute store in-the-cloud). The talk will be focused towards Academic and scientific community can leverage these new technologies to their advantage.
Biography
Amazon Web Service's Jinesh Varia has over seven years experience in XML and Web services and has worked with standard working groups in XBRL. Prior to joining Amazon as an evangelist, he held several positions in UBmatrix including Solutions Architect, Enterprise Team Lead and Software engineer, working on various financial services projects including Call Modernization Project at FDIC. He was also researcher/developer at Penn State Data Center, Institute of Regional Affairs. Jinesh's publications have been published in ACM and IEEE. Jinesh is originally from India and holds a Master's degree in Information Systems from Penn State University.