Using a Data Science Virtual Machine
If you have been provisioned a Data Science Virtual Machine (DSVM) as a Virtual Machine, it will arrive in your workspace with the most common Data Science tools already installed and ready to go. You can still install your own software, and everything will work in the same way as a standard Virtual Machine.
You can read more about how to access your Virtual Machine here and how to use your Virtual Machine here.
Performance and Compute power
The standard set of specifications for a DSVM are 4 vCPU, 16 GB memory, and 28 GB temp storage. Should you require additional power for you project, a higher spec machine can be provided: see this article for details. Some features of the DSVM may require additional computing power, for example when GPU is added, it can take advantage of the preinstalled libraries and tools for running Machine Learning tasks.
If you run into any issues or have any questions about Data Science Virtual Machines, please contact your Workspace Administrator or Aridhia Service Desk.
What’s included in your Data science Virtual Machine
The table at the bottom of this article sets out the most common data science tools that are available in a DSVM. You can find the full list of tools, as well as more information about each specific tool on Microsoft's website.
Please note that Visual Studio 2019 community, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft365 will not be included in a Windows DSVM due to licensing issues.
Preinstalled data science tools
The Data Science Virtual Machine images come with some pre-installed common software and packages including:
The full list of installed software is:
| Tool | Windows | Linux |
|---|---|---|
| Jupyter Notebook Server with kernels for: R, Python, Julia, and PySpark | Yes | Yes |
| Anaconda Python | Yes | Yes |
| Visual Studio Code | Yes | Yes |
| Julia (Julialang) | Yes | Yes |
| Node.js | Yes | Yes |
| JupyterLab | Yes | Yes |
| JupyterHub | No | Yes |
| CRAN-R | Yes | Yes |
| Notepad++ | Yes | No |
| Nano | Yes | No |
| PyCharm Community Edition | Yes | Yes |
| IntelliJ IDEA | No | Yes |
| Vim | No | Yes |
| Emacs | No | Yes |
| Git and Git Bash | Yes | Yes |
| OpenJDK 11 | Yes | Yes |
| .NET Framework | Yes | No |
| Azure SDK | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft Edge browser | Yes | Yes |
| Power BI Desktop | Yes | No |
| SQL Server 2019 Developer Edition | Yes | Yes |
| SQuirreL SQL | No | Yes |
| SQL Server Management Studio | Yes | No |
| Azure Storage Explorer | Yes | Yes |
| Azure CLI | Yes | Yes |
| AzCopy | Yes | No |
| Azure Cosmos DB Data Migration Tool | Yes | No |
| Unix/Linux command-line tools | No | Yes |
| Apache Spark 3.1 (standalone) | Yes | Yes |
| CUDA, cuDNN, NVIDIA Driver | Yes | Yes |
| Horovod | No | Yes |
| NVidia System Management Interface (nvidia-smi) | Yes | Yes |
| PyTorch | Yes | Yes |
| TensorFlow | Yes | Yes |
| Integration with Azure Machine Learning (Python) | Yes | Yes |
| XGBoost | Yes | Yes |
| Vowpal Wabbit | Yes | Yes |
| LightGBM | No | Yes |
| H2O | No | Yes |
| CatBoost | No | Yes |
| Intel MKL | No | Yes |
| OpenCV | No | Yes |
| Dlib | No | Yes |
| Docker | Yes | Yes |
| Nccl | No | Yes |
| ONNX Runtime | No | Yes |