Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Scaling Science
Search
Sponsored
·
Your Podcast. Everywhere. Effortlessly.
Share. Educate. Inspire. Entertain. You do you. We'll handle the rest.
→
Matt Wood
November 21, 2012
Science
3
570
Scaling Science
Introducing five principles for reproducibility.
Matt Wood
November 21, 2012
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Matt Wood
See All by Matt Wood
Field Notes from Expeditions in the Cloud
mza
2
470
A Platform for Big Data
mza
6
820
The Data Lifecycle
mza
5
570
Provision Throughput Like a Boss
mza
0
510
Impact of Cloud Computing: Life Sciences
mza
2
910
Latency's Worst Nightmare: Performance Tuning Tips and Tricks
mza
4
1.2k
Under the Covers of DynamoDB
mza
4
1.2k
From Analytics to Intelligence: Amazon Redshift
mza
9
1.1k
High Performance Web Applications
mza
6
680
Other Decks in Science
See All in Science
Celebrate UTIG: Staff and Student Awards 2025
utig
0
1.3k
白金鉱業Vol.21【初学者向け発表枠】身近な例から学ぶ数理最適化の基礎 / Learning the Basics of Mathematical Optimization Through Everyday Examples
brainpadpr
1
670
AI(人工知能)の過去・現在・未来 —AIは人間を超えるのか—
tagtag
PRO
0
160
データベース14: B+木 & ハッシュ索引
trycycle
PRO
0
680
主成分分析に基づく教師なし特徴抽出法を用いたコラーゲン-グリコサミノグリカンメッシュの遺伝子発現への影響
tagtag
PRO
0
220
Conversation is the New Dashboard: 属人性を排除する第4世代BIツールの勢力図
shomaekawa
1
430
データマイニング - グラフ構造の諸指標
trycycle
PRO
0
280
KH Coderチュートリアル(スライド版)
koichih
1
60k
タンパク質間相互作⽤を利⽤した⼈⼯知能による新しい薬剤遺伝⼦-疾患相互作⽤の同定
tagtag
PRO
0
180
HDC tutorial
michielstock
1
590
生成AIの現状と展望
tagtag
PRO
0
100
Amusing Abliteration
ianozsvald
0
140
Featured
See All Featured
Practical Orchestrator
shlominoach
191
11k
KATA
mclloyd
PRO
35
15k
Building a A Zero-Code AI SEO Workflow
portentint
PRO
0
410
The Success of Rails: Ensuring Growth for the Next 100 Years
eileencodes
47
8k
How to train your dragon (web standard)
notwaldorf
97
6.6k
A Guide to Academic Writing Using Generative AI - A Workshop
ks91
PRO
0
250
A Modern Web Designer's Workflow
chriscoyier
698
190k
SEO in 2025: How to Prepare for the Future of Search
ipullrank
3
3.4k
Dealing with People You Can't Stand - Big Design 2015
cassininazir
367
27k
The Illustrated Guide to Node.js - THAT Conference 2024
reverentgeek
1
320
Heart Work Chapter 1 - Part 1
lfama
PRO
5
35k
Facilitating Awesome Meetings
lara
57
6.8k
Transcript
Scaling Science
[email protected]
Dr. Matt Wood
Hello
Science
Beautiful, unique.
Impossible to re-create
Snowflake Science
Reproducibility
Reproducibility scales science
Reproduce. Reuse. Remix.
Value++
None
How do we get from here to there? 5PRINCIPLES REPRODUCIBILITY
OF
1. Data has Gravity 5 PRINCIPLES REPRODUCIBILITY OF
Increasingly large data collections
1000 Genomes Project: 200Tb
Challenging to obtain and manage
Expensive to experiment
Large barrier to reproducibility
Data size will increase
Data integration will increase
Data dependencies will increase
Move data to the users
Move data to the users X
Move tools to the data
Place data where it can consumed by tools
Place tools where they can access data
None
None
None
Canonical source
None
More data, more users, more uses, more locations
Cost
Force multiplier
Cost
Complexity
Cost and complexity kill reproducibility
Utility computing
Availability
Pay-as-you-go
Flexibility
Performance
CPU + IO
Intel Xeon E5 NVIDIA Tesla GPUs
240 TFLOPS
90 - 120k IOPS on SSDs
Performance through productivity
Cost
On-demand access
Reserved capacity
100% Reserved capacity
100% Reserved capacity On-demand
100% Reserved capacity On-demand
Spot instances
Utility computing enhanced reproducibility
None
2. Ease of use is a pre-requisite 5 PRINCIPLES REPRODUCIBILITY
OF
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/10/getting_users_p.html
Help overcome the suck threshold
Easy to embrace and extend
Choose the right abstraction for the user
$ ec2-run-instances
$ starcluster start
None
Package and automate
Package and automate Amazon machine images, VM import
Package and automate Amazon machine images, VM import Deployment scripts,
CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet
Expert-as-a-service
None
None
1000 Genomes Cloud BioLinux
None
Your HiSeq data Illumina BaseSpace
Architectural freedom
Freedom of abstraction
3. Reuse is as important as reproduction 5 PRINCIPLES REPRODUCIBILITY
OF
Seven Deadly sins of Bioinformatics: http://www.slideshare.net/dullhunk/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-bioinformatics
Seven Deadly sins of Bioinformatics: http://www.slideshare.net/dullhunk/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-bioinformatics
Infonauts are hackers
They have their own way of working
The ‘Big Red Button’
Fire and forget reproduction is a good first step, but
limits longer term value.
Monolithic, one-stop-shop
Work well for intended purpose
Challenging to install, dependency heavy
Di cult to grok
Inflexible
Infonauts are hackers: embrace it.
Small things. Loosely coupled.
Easier to grok
Easier to reuse
Easier to integrate
Lower barrier to entry
Scale out
Build for reuse. Be remix friendly. Maximize value.
4. Build for collaboration 5 PRINCIPLES REPRODUCIBILITY OF
Workflows are memes
Reproduction is just the first step
Bill of materials: code, data, configuration, infrastructure
Full definition for reproduction
Utility computing provides a playground for bioinformatics
Code + AMI + custom datasets + public datasets +
databases + compute + result data
Code + AMI + custom datasets + public datasets +
databases + compute + result data
Code + AMI + custom datasets + public datasets +
databases + compute + result data
Code + AMI + custom datasets + public datasets +
databases + compute + result data
Package, automate, contribute.
Utility platform provides scale for production runs
Drug discovery on 50k cores: Less than $1000
5. Provenance is a first class object 5 PRINCIPLES REPRODUCIBILITY
OF
Versioning becomes really important
Especially in an active community
Doubly so with loosely coupled tools
Provenance metadata is a first class entity
Distributed provenance
1. Data has gravity 2. Ease of use is a
pre-requisite 3. Reuse is as important as reproduction 4. Build for collaboration 5. Provenance is a first class object 5PRINCIPLES REPRODUCIBILITY OF
None
Thank you aws.amazon.com @mza
[email protected]