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CLASS Advanced Cohort

Leverage cloud platforms for research workflows.

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Course Information

  • Title: CLASS Advanced Cohort
  • Instructor: Jason Smith
  • Time: May 5 – May 16, 2025; 11 a.m. ET –  5 p.m. ET daily
  • Duration: 2 weeks
  • Cost: $1,875 for CICP subscribers, CLASS Alumni institutions, and institutions with Multiple Participants; $2,000 Early Bird rate for Internet2 members; $2,250 standard for Internet2 members; $2,500 for non-members
  • Delivery: Virtual via Zoom
  • Registration: Enroll Today
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Course Overview

CLASS Advanced is a two-week intensive learning experience designed to empower the research and higher education community to leverage cloud platforms for research workflows.

Participants will learn how to effectively build and manage cloud computing resources across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This vendor-neutral training focuses on solving common solutions in research computing.

Skill Level and Target Audience

  • Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
  • Target Audience: Researchers, IT professionals, and educators aiming to enhance their cloud computing skills for research applications

Prerequisites

To be successful, participants must be familiar with:

  • Using the command line (Linux/Unix) for day-to-day activities
  • Programming or scripting
  • Deploying and running containers (Docker, Singularity, or similar)
  • Github/Git commands

In addition, participants must also have at least six months of experience with at least one cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenStack, etc.), including deploying a virtual machine, creating a virtual private cloud, provisioning storage accounts, and utilizing identity and access management.

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Build and manage cloud computing resources across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
  • Implement vendor-neutral solutions for common research computing challenges.
  • Apply best practices in cloud security, storage, networking, and computing.
  • Collaborate effectively with peers to develop scalable and reproducible research workflows.

Course Details


Testimonials About the Training

This class was expertly conducted. It is the clearest explanation of cloud technology I have encountered.

– CLASS Advanced Spring 2024 Attendee

The content and the way the lectures were delivered, combined with quizzes, discussions, and hands-on labs, kept me fully engaged. This workshop helped me to have a unified view of the important components of Azure, AWS, and GCP services. This workshop prepared me to become a cloud champion.

– CLASS Advanced Spring 2022 Attendee

I really valued the conversation and contributions from the others in the cohort in terms of real-world experiences with these services.

– CLASS Advanced Fall 2023 Attendee

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