This repository contains files used in the course Infrastructures for Big Data Processing (BDP2) at the University of Bologna, Academic Year 2024-2025, taught by Prof. Alessanro Costantini.

For details, see the course slides.

For more information on the course, see here.

Follow the instructions provided during the course to get an account and set up your Lab environment. Remember that, once you have set up your account, you should go to https://www.awsacademy.com/LMS_Login to log in to your AWS Lab. Select "Student Login" there.

• Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS, 64-bit (x86)
• Size: t2.medium
• Subnet: default in us-east-1c
• Storage: 30 GB volume (not the default 8 GB size)
• Security group: rename it and call it "bdp2-security"

Remember to generate a new key pair. Call it e.g. bdp2. The private key, called in this case bdp2.pem, should be downloaded to your laptop and its access protected from the terminal with the command

chmod 400 bdp2.pem

Important note for Windows users: if your laptop runs Windows, in order to connect to the AWS VMs you may:

• Use an ssh client, such as MobaXterm (look it up on the Internet to find download and usage instructions).
• Use the Windows Powershell and the Windows Linux Subsystem (WSL). However, in this case remember to move the bdp2.pem private key to your WSL home directory. With the Windows File Explorer, you may go to MyPC and there you should find the WSL Linux home folder, called something like Ubuntu; inside that folder there will be a home folder, and inside that folder there will be a folder with your Windows username. That will be your WSL home directory. Once you have moved the .pem file there, remember to issue the chmod command shown above.

sudo apt update && sudo apt -y upgrade

Put the following at the end of the .bashrc file:

PS1="\[\033[01;32m\]\u@VM1\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ "

The above command is for the VM called VM1. Do the same for VM2, changing VM1 to VM2 in the PS1 string above.

Once done, activate the new prompt either by logging out and then back in, or simply typing source .bashrc

Perform these commands on VM1:

sudo apt update
sudo apt -y upgrade
sudo apt -y install python3-pip python3-matplotlib
sudo pip install --upgrade numpy Pillow scikit-image

A thanks to Prof. Davide Salomoni for the material provided and for the trust.