A Deep Learning Machine On Azure From The App Marketplace

I've run a lot of machine learning/A.I. projects as toys, and even a few not very complex ones in production. Normally they run on the CPU, and in only one instance did I use a GPU ... the projects simply didn't require it. Sometimes however, you come across something you need to try out, and it needs a STONKIN BIG MOTHA of a machine to really get its teeth stuck in. I had to do that recently and found the quickest way to get started was to spin up what I needed using the pre-configured Azure Deep Learning environment, then drop it when I was finished. This article walks through the process that is actually rather pleasantly simple.