Preinstalled and own tools
The DRE consists of a web-interface enabling access to virtual machines. Preinstalled tools consist of programs such as SPSS, R Studio, Matlab, and Office, but you are free to install your own tools.
Because of the security boundary around workspaces, it is possible to offer users the ability to install their own tooling without harming others.
Thanks to the flexibility of the Azure cloud platform, on which the DRE has been built, we can offer a variety of virtualized hardware, including (but not limited) to:
- Standalone virtual Windows / Linux machines (e.g. 72 cores, 144 Gb RAM);
- Compute Clusters (HPC);
- Web-Servers;
- Several storage options (tables/files/SQL/etc.).