Computing

We wrote a 1D-1V Pythonic Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck solver last year and published it in JOSS. This used NumPy and was tested against well-established plasma physics calculations. There were a couple of principle design choices that were made.

The A(mazon) C(ontrollers) for K(ubernetes) provide a unified API for calling AWS services from Kubernetes. I worked with some colleagues on a blog post for the release of the Amazon SageMaker ACK Operators.

Amazon SageMaker is AWS’s ML platform that covers many of the steps in the ML platform. One of the useful abstractions in SageMaker is the Estimator. The Estimator determines the underlying framework and gives access to many of the SageMaker APIs such as Training Jobs and Hosted Endpoints.