When looking at modeling big data, certain circumstances must be accounted for mainly concerning a computers processing power. My current device is Microsoft surface pro 4 which has 4 GB's of RAM and is powered by an Intel Core I5-6300U CPU @ 2.40GHz. The latest PC's in the Dublin Institute of Technology are the OptiPlex 5040 by Dell which has 8GB'S and powered by an Intel Core I3-6100 4GB 1600MHz.
These PCs will suffice for now when only a small amount of processing power is required. However when the scripts become larger and more computer intensive other alternatives will need to be looked into. An application to use the supercomputer in the The Irish Center for High-End Computing (ICHEC) is a possible solution or Amazons new High Performance Computing service. It could be possible to create our own "mini" high performance computer by creating a cluster with from old PC's. One way of doing this is by building a Beowulf cluster which is a Linux based multi-computer setup.
The following article is a 13 step guide on how to create a Beowulf cluster:
https://www.linux.com/blog/building-beowulf-cluster-just-13-steps
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