Microsoft Releases CentOS-Based 'Linux Data Science Virtual Machine' For Azure (betanews.com) 23
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft has announced a CentOS-based VM image for Azure called 'Linux Data Science Virtual Machine'. The VM has pre-installed tools such as Anaconda Python Distribution, Computational Network Toolkit, and Microsoft R Open. It focuses on machine learning and analytics, making it a great choice for data scientists. "Thanks to Azure's worldwide cloud infrastructure, customers now have on-demand access to a Linux environment to perform a wide range of data science tasks. The VM saves customers the time and effort of having to discover, install, configure and manage these tools individually. Hosting the data science VM on Azure ensures high availability, elastic capacity and a consistent set of tools to foster collaboration across your team", says Gopi Kumar, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Data Group.
Re: Don't worry... It's Microsoft. (Score:1)
Too late, SystemD already did that.
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another debian freak :))
Yes, but... (Score:3, Funny)
.. does it run ... oh, I see what you did there.
It's a nice toolset (Score:2, Insightful)
As someone who does a fair bit of (what the world now calls) data science --300GB/day of new stuff coming in -- I have to compliment Microsoft on the toolset they have chosen for this image. I know firsthand that it's a pain to set all that stuff up. Just getting that damned R kernel working for Jupyter has cost me many countless hours (albeit mainly on OSX).
There have been AWS scientific computing images available here and there over the last few years, but none have been all that great.
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IRKernel is quite tricky to get working if Anaconda is not how you want to get your Python (and some associated stuff). Your list probably works just fine for users without special requirements like mine, and I would recommend anyone reading this to follow it.
-- The GP poster
Microsoft R Open? (Score:2)
What in blazes is Microsoft R Open? A Microsoft rebranding of R?
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Basically, yes. There is a Visual Studio R thing that Microsoft added quite recently, so I'm pretty sure they built a R runtime for that so you can develop and deploy using Visual Studio to the image.
Re:Microsoft R Open? ... umm, your Google broken? (Score:2)
why would you ask that here? You're lucky you got a straight answer.
Step 1: (Score:2)
Wow, they saved me running 3 whole yum commands (Score:2)
I think maybe they don't get how easy it is to install/maintain software on Linux. Makes sense, since they've always made it so much harder than it has to be.
Re: Here's your MSLinux. (Score:1)
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