Google Compute Platform (GCP)

• Google Compute Platform (GCP)
• Getting Started
• Learning resources
• Architecture
  • VPC
  • Compute
  • Storage
• Research (Services/Applications)
• Google Cloud Platform Use Cases

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Getting Started

• Navigating the Console
• Overview of Services
• Cost optimization/cost monitoring
• IAM

Learning resources

• Qwiklabs

Architecture

VPC

• VPC/Virtual Network
• Regions & Availability Zones

Compute

• Linux VM
• Windows VM

Storage

• Overview of different kinds of storage options
• Object Storage
• Disk Storage

Research (Services/Applications)

• Batch
• ML in the Cloud
• Serverless Computing

Google Cloud Platform Use Cases

• NLP
  • Oakland University looks to the cloud to detect early signs of Alzeheimer’s disease
• Supervised Machine Learning
  • NASA-FDL: ML models trained to detect life signatures on other planets
  • Emory: sepsis prediction using ML
  • NYU: melanoma detection using ML
  • Texas A&M Corpus Cristi: asessing and tracking environmental change with machine learning models
• Operating an HPC Cluster with acceptable connectivity speed
  • USC: drug discovery
  • University of York
• Build, operate, share Data Science Virtual Machines (DSVMs)
• Create and maintain a Jupyter Hub for a research team
  • Duke using Colab to create clinical grade medical imaging
• Create and orchestrate an HTC Cluster using containers
  • Columbia: climate science
  • FinnGen
  • Stanford medical data management
  • Clemson disaster management
• Upload a particular large-volume dataset to the cloud; bring the analysis there
  • FinnGen (mentioned above)
  • Northeastern
  • Univ of Colorado: personalized Medicine

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