Overview

Research and Engineering Studio (RES) is an AWS supported, open source product that enables IT administrators to provide a web portal for scientists and engineers to run technical computing workloads on AWS. RES provides a single pane of glass for users to launch secure virtual desktops to conduct scientific research, product design, engineering simulations, or data analysis workloads. Users can connect to the RES portal using their existing corporate credentials and work on individual or collaborative projects.

Administrators can create virtual collaboration spaces called projects for a specific set of users to access shared resources and collaborate. Administrators can build their own application software stacks (using Amazon Machine Images or AMIs) and allow RES users to launch Windows or Linux virtual desktops, and enable access to project data through shared file-systems. Administrators can assign software stacks and file-systems and restrict access to only those project users. Administrators can use built-in telemetry to monitor the environment usage and troubleshoot user issues. They can also set budgets for individual projects to prevent overconsumption of resources. As the product is open source, customers can also customize the user-experience of the RES portal to suit their own needs.

RES is available at no additional charge, and you pay only for the AWS resources needed to run your applications.

This guide provides an overview of Research and Engineering Studio on AWS, its reference architecture and components, considerations for planning the deployment, and configuration steps for deploying RES to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud.