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Student work experience opportunities also exist for students who want to suggest their own project idea. Project suggestions must be relevant to HPCC Systems and of benefit to our open source community. 

Find out about the HPCC Systems Summer Internship Program.

The project proposal application period for 2020 summer internships is now open. Please see our list of Available Projects. Contact the project mentor for more information and to discuss your ideas. You may suggest a project idea of your own but it must leverage HPCC Systems in some way. Contact us for support from an HPCC Systems mentor with experience in your chosen project area.

Project Description

Similar to how the eclipse plugin embeds ECL Watch pages into the IDE, adding similar pages into VS Code would help bring it to at least the same level as the Eclipse Plugin. Also working with the new "tree api" we could add WU history similar to the IDE / Eclipse Plugin.

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More and more companies are moving to cloud environment. But for truly benefit the cloud infrastructure, particularly to get the job done and save money is till a challenge. This project will try to explore how to use AWS EC2 Spot Instances  for some our HPCC Systems development works, such as nightly builds, some function tests, etc. Spot Instances are much cheaper than the same type normal instance.  Most spot instances will not have the pre-requisites suitable for HPCC Systems Development. We may need provision the spot instance before use it. Or we can pre-create a Docker image with all pre-requisite packages.  The project need knowledge of AWS (EC2,  Client API, S3, etc),  Docker, Unix Shell, maybe Python and also HPCC Systems knowledge.  The students may not have all these skills but should eager to learn.

If you are interested in this project, please contact Gordon Smith. 

Completion of this project involves:

  • <4+ high level tasks to be completed>

By the mid term review we would expect you to have:

  • <What must be completed to pass the evaluation and continue on to complete the project>
Mentor
Michael Gardner
Contact Details

Xiaoming Wang
xiaoming.wang@lexisnexis.com

Backup Mentor:

 Xiaoming Wang
Contact Details
Skills needed
<See below some ideas add ones appropriate to the project.>

 Godson Fortil
Godson.Fortil@lexisnexisrisk.com

Skills needed
  • General Cloud Environment knowledge
  • AWS EC2, Client API (shell), S3, Docker, Jenkins, Packer
  • Unix Shell, Pythoin
  • Ability to build and test the HPCC system (guidance will be provided).
  • Ability to write test code. Knowledge of ECL is not a requirement since it should be possible to re-use existing code with minimal changes for this purpose. Links are provided below to our ECL training documentation and online courses should you wish to become familiar with the ECL  language.
Deliverables

Midterm

<Deliverable(s) to be achieved>
  • Enable spot instances for some of our nightly build

End of project

<Deliverables expected by the end of the internship>

  • Use Jenkins and AWS Spot Instances  for some of HPCC Systems Development work, at least nightly build
  • Documentation
  • Explore the potential spot instance usage for HPCC Systems related jobs
  • Explore the similar on Microsoft AZure
Other resources
Existing examples: <github links etc>