The course will be held at Amazon's Kumo center at 1915 Terry Ave in Seattle. Attendees can either head directly to the Kumo center and arrive after 8:30am but before 8:45am or we will have an instructor at the AMS registration desk who will walk with attendees leaving at 8:30am sharp.
Kumo is a 10 minute, half mile walk from the convention center. On arriving at 1915 Terry Ave proceed into the building and follow the signs to the tutorial room. Instructors will also be there to guide you.
Coffee and light refreshments will be provided. The course will begin with some introductions and setting up of wifi. You will have received instructions for setting up an Amazon Web Services account prior to the workshop, it is essential you have your account set up and have been able to log into the AWS Console.
Lunch will be on your own, although groups will likely form. Yelp shows a number of lunch venues within easy walk. Lunch is from noon to 1:30pm. Please ensure you are back at the Kumo center before 1:30pm.
Attendees need their own laptops with a Secure Shell (SSH) client installed. MacOS/OSX has this installed and is accessible via the terminal, Putty has been tested and works on Windows. Attendee laptops will also need a browser with the ability to add security exceptions for secure sites. We have tested this on Firefox and Safari. Laptops with very restrictive firewall rules will be difficult to work with. Specifically ports 22,443 and 8888 need to be used and should not be locked down.
Materials are available at https://github.com/openradar/AMS_radar_in_the_cloud and are currently being updated. Materials will also be distributed by thumbdrive to attendees.
Scott Collis, Argonne National Laboratory
Jonathan Helmus, Argonne National Laboratory
Gökhan Sever, Argonne National Laboratory
Ryan May, Unidata
Jed Sundwall, Amazon
Mark Korver, Amazon
Support for this course is provided by the ARM Climate Research Facility, a Department of Energy, Office of Science user facility, Unidata, a National Science Foundation Community Program and by Amazon Web Services.