AWS Public Sector Blog
Author: Eric Tidd
Eric Tidd is a business development lead for Amazon Web Services (AWS) serving the US Department of Energy. His experience in diverse markets such as manufacturing, energy, transportation, distribution, and healthcare are valuable to help understand mission challenges and the potential impact a technology transformation can have to accelerate scientific discovery.
Accelerating new materials design with open data on AWS
The Materials Project at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is an open database that offers information about material properties, or, all the elements and substances that make up the products we use every day. By harnessing the power of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) high-performance scientific computing and state of the art electronic structure methods, the Materials Project provides open web-based access on AWS to computational datasets on both known and potential materials, along with powerful analysis tools to help discover, inspire, and design new materials.