CFP: http://aws.amazon.com/education/#researchers
Deadline: October 14, 2011
AWS in Education will review and support selected research projects with grants that offer free access to most AWS infrastructure services. Often, large research projects require extensive compute power and storage infrastructure to complete. Now, researchers around the world have access to the global computing infrastructure and storage capacity of the AWS cloud. Instead of purchasing a large amount of hardware, researchers can get started by simply opening an AWS account. And, with services like Amazon Elastic MapReduce, much of the heavy lifting of provisioning and configuring Hadoop clusters for data-intensive processing is eliminated.
AWS in Education will evaluate academic research support proposals from active faculty at accredited universities and colleges throughout the year. We will review and award select recipients 4 times a year. Criteria include but are not limited to the uniqueness of the work, application of Amazon Web Services, and the ability to disseminate the work publicly via papers, events, or public relations. Grant amounts will vary depending on the research proposal and usage requirements documented in the proposal. Grants will be in the form of credits applicable to AWS services. EC2 usage within the grants will be for on-demand instances only.
If you are awarded a Research Grant for free usage of AWS, the grant will be good for 2 years or until the usage credits have been fully utilized in the 2 year research grant time frame. Academic researchers who receive AWS grants may apply for future grants via the same application and review process with eligibility for a maximum of two grant awards in one calendar year. A number of academic researchers around the world have already chosen AWS to support their research including:
