The proposal application period for the 2021 HPCC Systems intern Program is now open.
The deadline date for proposal applications is Friday 19th March 2021.
Discuss your ideas with the project mentor and send your final proposal to Lorraine Chapman.
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 closed. Check back in the Fall for details about applying to join our 2021 program.
Project Description
An increasing number of companies are moving to cloud environments. However, taking full advantage of the cloud infrastructure, particularly to get the job done while minimizing cost, remains a challenge. This project will try to explore how to use AWS EC2 Spot Instances for some of our HPCC Systems development works, such as nightly builds, some function tests, etc. Spot Instances are much cheaper than their on-demand counterparts. However, most spot instances will not have the pre-requisites suitable for HPCC Systems Development, such as the compute power. Thus, we may need to provision the spot instance before it can be used for our development purposes. As another option, we can create a Docker image with all of the prerequisite packages. This project requires knowledge of AWS (EC2, Client API, S3, etc), Docker, Unix Shell, Jenkins, maybe Python and also HPCC Systems knowledge. The students may not have all these skills but should be eager to learn the required tools or technologies.
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