Introduction

Wyatt Cash: Federal agencies are making major strides in modernizing and advancing their mission efforts with cloud technology. Christian Hoff, Director, U.S. Federal Civilian and Health Team at Amazon Web Services is here to talk about some of those advances. He says high-performance computing serves as an enabler of IT modernization and innovation for government customers. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration needs ever increasing HPC capacity to advance its numerical weather prediction models,. NASA scientists are now able to launch HPC models from Python notebooks and then analyze and visualize results as they are created.