- Laptop with Unix shell
- Running Linux or BSD natively
- Running Linux or BSD in an emulator (e.g. Virtual Box)
- Mac OS X
- Introduction to cloud computing on AWS
- AWS Free Usage Tier (no cost)
- AWS GPU instances
- $0.650 per Hour
- $437 per student (assuming 28 days usage)
- AWS EMR instances
- 5 node m1.medium cluster per student at $0.109 per node per hour
- $183 per student (assuming 14 days usage)
- AWS S3 storage and data transfer
- $10 per student
- $630
- Education grant from AWS of $100 credit per student
- Use BDGrid - this requires partnership with Tom Milledge to work out kinks in BDGrid setup.