Manage Complex Computations Using Clouds and Containers in iPlant Atmosphere

This computer demonstration will show you how to use Atmosphere, iPlant's cloud compute platform, for creating, sharing, and publishing virtual appliances (machine images) for reproducible analysis.

Atmosphere allows you to easily configure and bundle complex bioinformatics applications and their underlying software dependencies, in a ready-to-use form. It supports applications with GUI (Graphical User Interface) and web interfaces; end users can access Atmosphere and the virtual appliances using a web browser to launch their analysis.

Learn to use Atmosphere as a gateway to access iPlant's core infrastructure resources, including high performance computing (HPC) environments and the iPlant Data Store. We will demonstrate how you can extend this environment using Docker-based containers and how to add more applications to an existing virtual appliance.  We will also build an appliance during the demo, from start to finish, and share it with attendees.