steliosot/gcp-training

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Tutorial

This tutorial offers a practical learning experience on navigating the GCP platform for everyday activities, including using virtual resources to store and process data.

The workshop will be conducted in person, and a recording will be shared afterwards.

• Date: Friday 12th of April

• Time: 11am -1pm

• Malet Street 404-405

Ensure timely arrival, and remember to bring your laptop. Apart from a basic understanding of Python, no other prior knowledge is required—just come with your enthusiastic Friday vibe!

Please follow the guidelines provided at the end of this document to claim your $50 voucher.

• If you intend to participate, please fill out the form at this link: https://forms.office.com/e/Y7gmBMFPMR.
• Please redeem your coupon before the start of the session (see below)- it will take only 5 minutes.

Agenda

• Welcome to the GCP tutorial and short intros.

Hands-on tasks to be completed.

1. What is the Google Cloud platform, and why must you learn about it?
2. How can I use the GCP for teaching and research?
3. How to request coupons for my classes?
4. Why do you need to know about cloud services?
5. What is a Virtual Machine (VM)?
6. How do you create a Virtual Machine on GCP?
7. How do you deploy a Jupyter Notebook server with custom resources?
8. What is a bucket, and how do you create one?
9. What is Google's BigQuery, and how can it be used for big data storage & analytics?
10. What is a service account, and how do you use it to access Google Cloud services?
11. How do you connect to BigQuery from Python?

If time permits:

1. What is a large language model?
2. How do you deploy an LLM on a GCP VM?
3. How do you access GPU instances using the GCP console?
4. How do you customise an LLM model such as Llama 2 using Python?

Prerequisites:

Dear All,

Here is the URL you must access to request a Google Cloud coupon. You will be asked to provide your school email address and name. You will receive an email to confirm these details before a coupon is sent to you.

Student Coupon Retrieval Link

• You will be asked for a name and email address that match your school domain. You will then receive a confirmation email with a coupon code.
• Watch the video tutorial (minute 0:42 to 4:24) - You will need to perform the following steps (as shown in the video):
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8ys7Qt8h5w&t=149s
• You can only request ONE code per unique email address.
• Ensure you use your bbk.ac.uk email account.

• You will receive a coupon in your bbk.ac.uk email account.
• You must use your personal Gmail account to redeem the coupon.
• If you don't have an account, please create a new one.

Thanks,

Stelios Sotiriadis

Links Tutorial link:

• https://github.com/warestack/students
• https://cloud.google.com/edu/faculty?hl=en